Even as an undergraduate student at Winona State University, Tommy Sawyer knew he wanted to become a teacher—and a great one, at that. In high school, his social studies teachers made such a positive impact on his learning experience that he couldn’t wait to create an...
Mary Larson’s passion for science and the outdoors started when she was young. “I really wanted to be a horticulturalist, but I didn’t really know what that was,” Larson said. “I had a little microscope that I kept putting stuff under, like plants.” That passion...
At 16 years old, Sethu Munusamy was first introduced to composite engineering in a high school class in Malaysia. Sethu, a WSU 2010 alum, was fascinated by idea of taking a plastic and a fiber, mixing them together, and creating something so much stronger than any...
