California Institute of Technology

Research and STEM Activities 
Attended four-week camp at MIT taking college level courses in computer science, electrical engineering, and mathematics...Developed video games by writing original code in Python, created and built a heart rate monitor, a solar cell, and an electric piano...Gave a presentation on Chaos Theory...Designed and constructed an electric motor in the Pappalardo Lab....Completed Medical and Translational Bioinformatics Workshop at the Rosetta Institute at UC Berkeley...Attended lectures and performed research on bioinformatics and how it is applied towards the discovery of the genetic basis of disease, the role of genetics in the response to currently-approved drugs, and the development of next-generation therapeutics with pharmacogenetics...Conducted original research on currently unresearched KIAA1958 gene and presented my findings.

Prior to Caltech 
Three-year varsity starter...Named Second Team All-League in three different seasons...Top-10 league scorer in 2017-18...Four-time All-League Academic Athlete...Senior captain at Granite Bay...Four-time captain at Placer United...National Merit Scholarship – Letter of Commendation...Academic Merit Award...Four-time Scholar Athlete Award.

Personal 
Born in Pasadena, Calif....Daughter of Stephanie and Mike Thompson...Has one younger sister, Sarah...Designs, creates and sews decorative homemade eye patches to children diagnosed with amblyopia or other eye conditions who are required to wear eye patches...Solders jewelry out of electrical resistors.