Sage W. (IN A NUTSHELL)
"The most powerful thing you can give someone is self belief"
Hi! My name is Sage, and I'm a student at Stanford University studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS).
As a mentor, I like to focus on on approaches over outcomes. My goal is to give students the confidence that they can tackle any challenge, no matter its shape or form. Most students come in not knowing what exactly they want to do (which is perfectly okay!), and even in college, statistics show that around 80% of students end up changing their major at least once. At this stage, I believe that the important thing is to hone students' skillsets in terms of approaching new challenges (organizing time, setting manageable goals, communicating with different types of people etc), so that in the future, they can be confident in anything they try.
Personally, I had no idea what I wanted to do in high school, so I ended up developing a broad set of experiences: from academic research (in genetics, bioengineering, and economic policy), to creating international non-profit-orgs (in finance, english literature, and sustainability), to starting an arts business, to drawing my own mini comic series, to representing Singapore in basketball. All these pursuits, despite their disparate natures, shared the fact that they taught me how to start and build up projects from scratch. It is this skillset I want to pass down to my students the most, and you can rest assured that I will be able to support them in any new project they think up (and we're going to have SO MUCH FUN in the process!).
As an EECS student, my speciality is in engineering, especially hardware and software interfaces. I love making wiring up Raspberry Pi's and Arduinos, then coding things up to make them work.
Outside of the classroom, I'm a Satellites Co-Lead at the Stanford Student Space Initiative, which is also the university's largest project-based club. I lead a team of over 50 students to engineer a real satellite -- we're launching it into space this October! Last Fall, I also interned at SpaceX, where I worked on designing electronics for their satellites. On top of that, I'm also a researcher at Stanford's Space Rendezvous Lab, where I write satellite Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) algorithms for NASA's Starling mission.
During my free time, I love playing video games (Nintendo, FPS – anything that involves pixels moving), drawing comics, running, and reading manga/webtoons. My lifelong dream has always been to make my own graphic novel. I always have a sketchbook on hand to add to the worlds I'm creating!
So excited to meet you and for us to start this journey together!
