Awards & Recognition

NASA L'SPACE Mission Concept Academy

Date: Spring 2025

Role: Electrical Engineer — Team VULCAN

Organization: NASA L'SPACE Program

Overview

Selected for NASA's L'SPACE Mission Concept Academy, where I served as an Electrical Engineer on Team VULCAN, designing the power system — supply, generation, and distribution — for a preliminary Venus-exploration mission concept. Working through NASA's real mission lifecycle, our multidisciplinary team delivered a full Preliminary Design Review (PDR), and I gained hands-on experience in systems engineering, mission requirements development, and CAD modeling.

Skill Badges Earned

• Teaming
• Systems Engineering
• Requirements Development
• Risk Mitigation
• Heat Transfer
• CAD Design (Siemens NX)

AAP Community Impact Award

Date: November 2025

Organization: NYU Academic Achievement Program (AAP)

Overview

Recipient of the AAP Community Impact Award for the second consecutive year, recognizing sustained leadership and positive impact within the NYU community through the Academic Achievement Program, SHPE, and Opportunity Programs — for opening doors and supporting the next generation of students.

Cybersecurity Awareness Workshop

Date: January 2025

Organization: Hostos College & CSTEP, in partnership with Africatech Global Link

Overview

Completed a two-week Cybersecurity Awareness Workshop covering phishing identification, ransomware and data-breach awareness, recognizing malicious websites and ads, and secure computing practices for staying safe in the digital world.