“I’m honored to receive this award, particularly because of the prestige of previous winners. I saw Yaro Yarashevich win this honor my first year of Grad School and I thought ‘How do you earn that?’ After working with them, as their assistant, I learned that it’s a lot of hard work, sweating out new and different technical designs, making drawings for everything before it hits the floor, positive communication, consistency, some crying, filling every non-crying moment with efficient task completion, resting at least one day a week and documenting everything. To now be receiving this award is exhilarating.”