Straw Labyrinth

Becky Jeanes is an architect who runs Designtrait Architects, a small design company in Austin, Texas. Growing up around construction sites and real estate in Houston, she developed an avid interest in the built world. Becky loved art and math as a young girl, and one day, someone piqued her curiosity by saying, “You should …

Parachute Challenge

Christina Diaz is an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. Growing up, her mother and father both encouraged her to pursue her curiosity about science, engineering, and the universe. In 2013, Diaz graduated with a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from California Polytechnic State University, and she began working at …

SpriteBox

Meg Gallagher is a software engineer at Walmart Technology, and her path to this career was not a typical one. She graduated from Texas A&M with a degree in clinical dietetics and spent her first few years after college helping patients with nutritional risks and deficiencies. Though she loved working with patients, she started learning …

Nonstop Fountain

Elizabeth Ruedas is a surface water engineer for Michael Baker International. She has a passion for civil engineering and works with land developers and local business owners to develop projects that take into account the engineering, science, and environmental aspects of surface water. Ruedas is an American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Orange County Past …