\n\tWith her orange hair and extensive tattoos, Holly Gummelt is changing the image of a physics nerd. 足彩app哪个是正规的 first physics major at the University of Washington Bothell, Gummelt started a physics club. She launched a Society of Physics 足彩app哪个是正规的s Chapter and brought Sigma Pi Sigma, the organization\u2019s honor society, to campus. As part of the Trickfire Robotics club, she helped build a 80-kilogram (176-pound) robot for a NASA competition to simulate mining on Mars. And she worked as a grader, peer facilitator and tutor at Quantitative Skills Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\t\u201cI just hit the ground running. Any opportunity that I saw, I took it. Each piece has been absolutely worth it,\u201d says Gummelt, who transferred to UW Bothell two years ago from a community college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\tAt the University, she also was part of Assistant Professor Joey Key\u2019s gravitational wave astronomy group, for which Gummelt won a Founders Fellow Research Scholarship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\tGraduating in June in physics, Gummelt plans to earn a Master of Science in engineering degree at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her goal is to design and build rockets. She has an internship at Planetary Resources, the Redmond, Washington, company developing technology to mine asteroids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\tPhysics and engineering degrees would build on an earlier bachelor\u2019s in fine art and her previous work as a welder, creating large kinetic metal sculptures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\t\u201cA rocket ship is like a large kinetic sculpture doing all the right things at the right time,\u201d Gummelt says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2018Any opportunity I saw, I took it\u2019 With her orange hair and extensive tattoos, Holly Gummelt is changing the image of a physics nerd. 足彩app哪个是正规的 first physics major at the University of Washington Bothell, Gummelt started a physics club. She launched a Society of Physics 足彩app哪个是正规的s Chapter and brought Sigma Pi Sigma, the organization\u2019s honor…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":7225,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_is_archived":false,"_archived_contact_email":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10661","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"related_links":{"toggle_visibility":false,"link_1":"","link_2":"","link_3":"","link_4":"","link_5":""},"highlight_box":{"toggle_visibility":false,"title":"","content":"","button":"","button_style":"angled-purple-button","button_screen_reader_text":""},"contact_type_1":{"toggle_visibility":true,"contact_title":"","email":"uwbnews@uw.edu","phone":"","box":"","address_line_1":"","address_line_2":"","location":""},"contact_type_2":{"toggle_visibility":false,"contact_title":"","email":"","phone":"","box":"","address_line_1":"","address_line_2":"","location":""},"social_media":{"toggle_visibility":false,"facebook_url":"","instagram_url":"","linkedin_url":"","twitter_url":"","youtube_url":""},"blog_archive_sidebar_visibility":false},"yoast_head":"\n