Q: Tell us a bit about yourself.  

My name is Jake, and I am a grade 10 student from OLMP catholic high school. I have lived in the same town my whole life and a lot of what I do is walking around it. I love school and learning; these two things take up most of my life. I maintain good grades, I look up fun facts, and have gone to every museum in an hour radius. I hope to eventually work in a scientific field, I just don’t know which one. 

Q: Why do you want to participate in the Shad program/What are you most looking forward to?  

What I want most from Shad is an opportunity to explore the opportunities of science. I want to see my options, but I also want to spend a month of my summer doing something interesting. I’m probably most excited to have a busy schedule. Sometimes I just don’t know what to do with myself, so I really appreciate plans like this. 

Q: What motivates or sparks your curiosity in STEAM and/or entrepreneurship?  

I don’t know what I want to do in post-secondary school yet. I feel most motivated to pursue something in the sciences and learning more about that field of study. What motivated me to expand my knowledge is the search, the idea of spending my time well, working toward something. I want to be happy, and I hope that expanding my knowledge can help do that for me. 

Q: How do you envision your future? 

I don’t know a lot about everything and so I can’t confidently envision my future without learning more. I like to imagine myself happy, of course I do and I’m not sure how to become that. I hope I get to achieve this through science, I especially like to imagine myself working as a researcher on some cold, remote island. Envisioning one’s own future is not so easy but I want to see science right next to me.