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Hansi Bartle<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n From Science Olympiad to advanced placement courses, Hansi Bartle of Brooklyn, Wisconsin, invites challenges rather than shying away from them, an attitude that she will bring to her studies at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison College of Engineering this fall. Bartle says that she discovered her love for aeronautics while participating in a Science Olympiad event that required teams to build and design a model plane that could fly long distances. She would like to extend her interest in aeronautics to \u201cdeveloping a cheaper and environmentally friendly way of utilizing aircrafts.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Saksen Hathaway<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Saksen Hathaway, of Portland, Oregon, notes that her interest in environmental science was sparked in fifth grade when she participated in a water quality experiment that involved pH testing of ponds and streams near her home. That interest has persisted. A recent high school project involved pH testing of soil from wetlands on her campus. Further extending the experiment, Hathaway discovered another study that had examined soil pH after the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens in Washington State. She was able to compare her locally-gathered data to data that had been collected and analyzed after a significant environmental event. \u201cI cannot wait to build off of what I have learned,\u201d she says. Hathaway will study environmental science at the UW\u2013Madison.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Naomi Raicu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A senior who lives in Shorewood, Wisconsin, Naomi Raicu characterizes her passion for physics as a drive to understand the rules of the game, whether in literature or science. She quickly realized that \u201csince physics requires this process of questioning and reflection that I regularly employ in my studies, I simply had to pursue the subject.\u201d Raicu\u2019s dream is to employ her background in physics, along with a dose of creativity, to work towards solutions to our changing climate, possibly working on developing alternative forms of energy. In addition, she plans on mentoring girls, \u201cespecially immigrant girls like myself, to inspire them to pursue careers in STEM.\u201d Raicu will enter the University of Wisconsin\u2013Milwaukee this fall.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n The $2000 Verner E. Suomi Scholarship is awarded annually to one or more college-bound high school seniors who exhibit outstanding achievement in the physical sciences and who plan to attend a University of Wisconsin System school for their freshman year. As founder of the Space Science and Engineering Center and CIMSS, Professor Suomi is considered one of the most influential meteorologists of the 20th<\/sup> century. His academic interests spanned the fields of engineering to atmospheric science and he was known for his genuine love of teaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis year\u2019s scholarship recipients also embody CIMSS\u2019 desire to increase diversity in STEM,\u201d said L\u2019Ecuyer. \u201cWe hope to inspire others from under-represented groups to pursue careers in the environmental sciences or related fields.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Three high school seniors, who hail from Wisconsin to as far as Oregon State, were awarded the UW\u2013Madison Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies Verner E. Suomi Scholarship for the 2020-2021 academic year. \u201cWe are very excited to award scholarships to these promising future scientists who each share Professor Suomi\u2019s vision for applying physics and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-13034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","tag-cimss"],"acf":{"include_for_media_link":"no","guest_author":[{"first_name":"","last_name":"","link":""}],"sub_title":"","short_title":"Three accomplished students awarded Suomi Scholarship","ssec_home_page_carousel_image":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2019\/03\/Suomi_Image_Web_Banner.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13034"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13452,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13034\/revisions\/13452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2020\/07\/SaksenHathaway08-1-733x1026.jpg\")
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