California Institute of Technology

Research/STEM activities
Spent a summer working at Batygin Lab at Caltech under mentor Juliette Becker...Focused on studying the characteristics of exoplanets with the final project being an in depth study of a TESS hot Jupiter system in which she and partner used data from TESS on the system TOI-1130 to prove that the planets orbiting that star were in resonance and may have been formed through disk migration. Academic paper soon to follow...Member of state champion and world qualifying VEX high school robotics team...Participated in Girls Who Code, LLCipher, and iD Tech...Competed in a ByteHacks hackathon in New York City and won best amateur hack for a project focused on raising awareness about depression...Helped form middle school robotics team through high school’s first International Robotics Honor Society...President of the Mu Alpha Theta Math National Honor Society.

Prior to Caltech
Two-Time Tri-County Tournament champions...Third-place finishes in the Windy City Qualifier and the Daytona Holiday Classic...Four-Time District champion and Regional Championship runner-up...Upstate Fall Tournament champion...Member of high school district and regional championship team...Two-time state qualifier in Beach Volleyball...Broward 6A Division Honorable Mention...Won the inaugural AVP 14U Beach Championship...Two-time FBVT bronze medalist Molten "For the Real Game" Award Recipient...Team Captain...Salutatorian...President of National Honor Society...President of the Mu Alpha Theta Math National Honor Society...Sergeant of Arms of Spanish National Honor Society...Treasurer of the International Robotics Honor Society...AP Scholar Award with Distinction...McCarthy Excelsior Honors Program Highest GPA Varsity Indoor and Beach Volleyball.

Personal
Born in South Miami, Fla....Daughter of Robert and Gloria Twombly...Has one younger sister, Emma...Bassoon player.