Ashley Kim

Ashley Kim is a senior at Cresskill High School. She is the founder and president of CHS's Technology Student Association, which opened up opportunities for STEM-oriented students. She worked with Dr. Mandal of Princeton University, working on radiative coolers to contribute to efforts of lessening global warming. She gauged the performance of the radiative cooler by creating a thermal box in addition to working on a 3D model of an integrating sphere to take optical measurements. Ashley was also a scholar of the Governor's School of Engineering and Technology at Rutgers University, researching the climate change-induced soil humidity variations on stomatal dynamic behavior. Outside of STEM, Ashley is a member of the varsity tennis team and plays the flute and piccolo. She is an active member in the marching band as section leader and president. As Ashley expands her education, she aspires to become a civil and environmental engineer.