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Submission Number: 518
Submission ID: 1669
Submission UUID: f1664f42-c540-4f16-8f1b-b46a06c60ef5
Submission URI:/center/mortenson/form/webform-1367
Created: Sat, 04/19/2025 - 12:23
Completed: Sat, 04/19/2025 - 13:14
Changed: Sun, 04/20/2025 - 15:16
Remote IP address: 65.102.244.139
Submitted by:Anonymous
Language: English
Is draft: No
Yes
Ananya
Kunigal
she/her
Denver
Colorado
US
80130
Aerospace Engineering
English (5), Spanish (4), Kannada (5)
I have a huge passion for travel and it is one of my favorite hobbies! I've been all over the world, and the reason I love to travel is because it opens up our minds to think about other perspectives, cultures, and ways of life. Outside of the US, I've been to Mexico, India, and Denmark. Inside the US, I've been to Alaska, California, Utah, Indiana, Florida, New York, Wyoming, Wisconsin, South Dakota, and a few others. Since I’ve been traveling for most of my life, keeping track of specific dates can be challenging, but my parents make it a point to visit India every two years to reconnect with extended family. My IB CAS trip to Copenhagen was particularly fascinating because we got to focus on activities that fell under the categories of Creativity, Activity, and Service. Specifically, we got to design personal Linocuts for creativity, put together a traditional meal for service, and visited CopenHill to gain awareness about their sustainability practices. We also participated in projects addressing local community issues through the lens of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. All of these travel experiences and perspectives have contributed to me being a well-rounded and open-minded individual and I am excited to put what I've learned into action alongside my college experiences.
Engineering is about designing and implementing programs and services that improve the world; not just one specific community or area, but many. This complex process requires awareness, education, an open exchange of ideas, and a mindset committed to change. Global experiences and diverse perspectives improve the field of engineering by sharing not just ideas, but insight into different challenges and ways of life.
Each community has its own needs, and creating effective solutions means understanding those needs deeply. This only happens when a diverse collection of people, each with their own experiences and backgrounds, come together. These varied perspectives foster a mindset of collaboration, where every voice contributes to stronger, more inclusive outcomes.
I’ve come to understand this through my time on the Student Leadership Board for Lone Tree Teen Court. As student leaders, we use restorative justice principles to support youth respondents, offering different perspectives during Peer Panels to help them reflect on their actions and repair harm. This experience has taught me that meaningful change happens through listening, conversation, and shared effort.
One voice cannot speak for the entire world. But when we come together to share what we’ve seen, experienced, and learned, we can shape engineering solutions to reflect the needs of all. That is the true power of global experience and collective insight.
Each community has its own needs, and creating effective solutions means understanding those needs deeply. This only happens when a diverse collection of people, each with their own experiences and backgrounds, come together. These varied perspectives foster a mindset of collaboration, where every voice contributes to stronger, more inclusive outcomes.
I’ve come to understand this through my time on the Student Leadership Board for Lone Tree Teen Court. As student leaders, we use restorative justice principles to support youth respondents, offering different perspectives during Peer Panels to help them reflect on their actions and repair harm. This experience has taught me that meaningful change happens through listening, conversation, and shared effort.
One voice cannot speak for the entire world. But when we come together to share what we’ve seen, experienced, and learned, we can shape engineering solutions to reflect the needs of all. That is the true power of global experience and collective insight.
I would be thrilled to be a member of the Global Engineering RAP because I come from a place of diverse experiences and cultures that I would love to share with others. With my Indian heritage, a passion for working with and helping others, global perspectives learned through experiences in the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Program, and a deep love of all sciences (particularly physics), I believe I can provide a unique lens in which to view and benefit my community.
This Global Engineering community will especially contribute to my training by providing numerous opportunities to benefit my skills and learning, such as being able to live with students with the same deep passion of engineering, learn from experiences of my peers and professors, develop a greater understanding of international connections and how that specifically affects engineering, and overall provide more tailored and personal experience in college.
To personally contribute to the residential community, I wish to further develop my leadership skills by organizing events for other students and sharing my knowledge on topics I’m passionate about. My prior experiences, including high school initiatives like my CAS Project and tutoring younger students, has prepared me well for this. The CAS Project is a personalized project that is completed over the course of a couple months during 12th grade and has a strong emphasis on both collaboration and service. In other words, our project cannot benefit only ourselves. The project really opens the doors and allows us to do much more that learn a new skill or enhance our careers; it allows us to see beyond our own lives and look into the community around us.
My project focused on youth impacted by foster care systems (ages 5 to 17), where we took them to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science with the goal of providing them a safe space to just be kids alongside the intention to foster a love of science. My project was extremely successful after months of collaboration and communication, as noted by the leaders at Sibling Connections and Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA). It proved to me that I am capable of designing projects to help others. I hope to bring similar personal projects to the Global Engineering RAP to make a positive impact on students around me.
This Global Engineering community will especially contribute to my training by providing numerous opportunities to benefit my skills and learning, such as being able to live with students with the same deep passion of engineering, learn from experiences of my peers and professors, develop a greater understanding of international connections and how that specifically affects engineering, and overall provide more tailored and personal experience in college.
To personally contribute to the residential community, I wish to further develop my leadership skills by organizing events for other students and sharing my knowledge on topics I’m passionate about. My prior experiences, including high school initiatives like my CAS Project and tutoring younger students, has prepared me well for this. The CAS Project is a personalized project that is completed over the course of a couple months during 12th grade and has a strong emphasis on both collaboration and service. In other words, our project cannot benefit only ourselves. The project really opens the doors and allows us to do much more that learn a new skill or enhance our careers; it allows us to see beyond our own lives and look into the community around us.
My project focused on youth impacted by foster care systems (ages 5 to 17), where we took them to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science with the goal of providing them a safe space to just be kids alongside the intention to foster a love of science. My project was extremely successful after months of collaboration and communication, as noted by the leaders at Sibling Connections and Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA). It proved to me that I am capable of designing projects to help others. I hope to bring similar personal projects to the Global Engineering RAP to make a positive impact on students around me.
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