Kevin Wolz

Kevin is a graduate of Amos Alonzo Stagg High School in Palos Hills, IL. He plans on earning a double major in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Integrative Biology. From there he will head to graduate school, where he will merge these two fields in search of solutions to climate change and other environmental problems. Kevin is a Chancellor’s Scholar, Provost Scholar, National Merit Scholar, Matthews Scholar, and James Scholar. He runs for the Illinois Cross Country and Track Club and also hopes to become involved with local habitat and prairie restoration.

Jenny Roderick

Although raised in small town USA (aka Taylor Ridge, IL), Jenny left to attend the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora. Her most notable accomplishments in high school include entering a research project into the Sieman’s Competition, presenting another project at the MIT-Lemelson Eureka Fest, making a remote controlled clock to speed up time in my physics class, and getting into college. Now, as a freshman in Aerospace Engineering, she’s ensured that her list will only grow by joining iFoundry.

Claire Slupski

Claire Slupski is the iChair of the Art and Engineering Design iTeam (AED). Although she hails from Ohio, Claire is proud to be an Illini. In high school, Claire served as section leader for the school’s sousaphone players, was active in Honor Society, and served as one of only two youth representatives on her church’s Profile Committee. As iChair for AED, Claire plans to facilitate discussions, lectures, and outings between the students and faculty and corporations to help emphasize the importance of art and design in engineering. Claire is studying Mechanical Science and Engineering.