National Society of Black Engineers

I reached out to GE Healthcare and organized a field trip, at no cost to the students, to their manufacturing plant in Wisconsin. Students got to spend the day with current staff in GE's African American Forum Employee Resource Group and the CEO of GE Healthcare's Molecular Imaging and CT(MICT) business going through a series of activities to expose them to careers in STEM.

Activities

• Team Building Exercises
• LEAN Management Bootcamp
• Career Panel
• Plant Tour
• Discussion with CEO of MICT Business

I supported and mentored the students as they competed in a Regional VEX Robotics competition. I helped set up the competition as their high school served as the host.

Working with my Pre-College Initiative Co-chair, we organized a behind the scenes field trip to Shedd Aquarium. During the trip, they learned about different ways engineers impact wildlife such as a previous Northwestern Biomedical Engineering Capstone project addressing orthopedic arthritis in penguins.

I served on the planning committee for a city-wide event called A Walk For Education aimed to expose young Black students to the opportunities in higher education. Students got exposed to college readiness tools as well as got to interact with different projects from several Illinois institutions, From Northwestern, I recruited the Mechatronics Lab and Concrete Canoe to perform demos for the students. I also sat on a college discussion panel.