Catching Up with Dante: Engineering, Climate Change & Grad School
Our previous Nikkei Youth Athletics Bursary recipient Dante St. Prix is interested in developing technologies to counteract climate change, and continuing on to grad school.
It’s wonderful to hear from young Nikkei like Dante, who is working towards an exciting career in engineering, and in particular, being interested in joining the efforts to counteract our global climate change issues. We wish him all the best in his future!
Here’s what he has to say:
“In September, I started my 5th and final year of the Engineering Physics undergraduate program at UBC. For most of my degree, I focused on learning about electronics in addition to micro- and nano-technology. This was perfect since I had the opportunity to work with Microchip to validate complex electronic devices over the summer. It was exciting to combine my working knowledge with state of the art testing equipment to solve real world problems.
While I love this field, after much thought, I decided that climate change is a much more pressing issue and that I’m in a good position to shift toward developing technologies to counteract it – perhaps in fields such as energy production and distribution. I plan on spending the next year speaking to people in this field and will choose a graduate program that will best fit my goals.
As someone who loves travelling, I made sure not to miss any opportunities and visited, Japan, China, South Korea and Taiwan in between my work term and the new school year.”