Joined the BYU Rocketry Club my freshman year. Club activities ceased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Post pandemic I worked closely with the leadership team to reignite excitement in the club and as current president have grown membership to 100+ active members.

As President of the BYU Rocketry Association, I mentored each of the subteams during the design phases of the project, providing insights and expertise from previous high power rocketry projects I participated in and led, like the 2022 BYU Rocketry High Power Team and my personal Level 3 certification rocket. I also worked as a systems engineer on the High Power Team assisting all three subteams (structures, GNC, and payload) throughout the design, prototyping, manufacturing, testing, and integration of the rocket.

Assisted the structures team with the design, prototype, and manufacturing of custom tooling used to fabricate various components of the rocket.

One of these assemblies was a custom 17 ft launch pad to be used during the testing and integration of the rocket. We used some preexisting part, such as the base, and integrated a 17 ft. x 1 1/2 in. x 1 1/2 in. extruded aluminum rail that pivots for easy manuvering of the rocket both on and off of the launch pad.

Solitude successfully launched and was recovered undamaged at the 2023 Spaceport America Cup. The apogee of the rocket was 9,938 feet above ground level; Only a 0.88% variance from the simulated apogee of 10,026 feet.

As a member of the 2022 BYU Rocketry High Power Team and as Structures Subteam Lead, I led 2 structures engineers and collaborated with 5 other engineers to design, build, test, and fly a 9 foot tall high power rocket, named Maverick, that was used to compete in the 2022 Spaceport America Cup.

The Team's goal was to design, build, and fly a rocket to an exact altitude of 10,000 ft above ground level. I created models of the rocket and conducted testing to validate those models. Validation included parachute deployment tests, airframe stress tests, and a full-scale flight test with the Tripoli Idaho Prefect.

As a result of the above prelaunch testing, the competition launch resulted in an apogee of 10,432 feet above ground level at the Spaceport America Cup; only an 18 foot difference from the simulated apogee of 10,450 feet above ground level.

As Association President I have led the coordination of the annual launch competition hosted by BYU Rocketry. This competition is designed to help introduce new students to the field of aerospace engineering and provide opportunities to gain real world engineering experience. The most recent competition was the 8th to be completed since its inception and has seen increased success year after year.