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<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Christin Badylak-Reals is a University Innovation Fellow (UIF) and an undergraduate studying mechanical engineering ('19) at the University of New Hampshire. She is passionate about energy systems, innovation and entrepreneurship and aspires to apply design thinking to address the issues facing the electric grid.</span>

Christin started her UNH studies in 2013 in Environmental Conservation and Sustainability. <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In addition to her enjoyable classes the summer of 2015, she made time for a number interned at the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of related clubs Energy Policy and internshipsSystem Analysis (EPSA) in Washington D. Christin was co-coordinator of the UNH Student Environmental Action Coalition where she led efforts C. While in diverting waste from the landfill with Trash 2 TreasureD.C.&nbsp; She interned with the Post Landfill Action Network where not only did she do substantial analytical work on US energy infrastructure but she designed networked extensively and managed did informal informational interviews with numerous people in the Waste Audit of the UniversityEPSA. As a Research Apprentice, the summer result of 2014 for the UNH Hamel Center for Undergraduate Researchthose conversations, she worked under a National Science Foundation grant became convinced that she needed to facilitate the creation deepen her scientific and execution of a non-market valuation research study of beach erosion control on Plum Island, MAtechnical expertise. In addition When she returned to conducting hundreds of UNH in-person surveys the fall, she composed a literature review of the effects of beach erosion control on barrier island ecosystem servicestransferred from her environmental studies major into mechanical engineering.</span>

In addition to her interest in sustainability Christin <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The UIF program has been involved instrumental in leadership and public policyshaping Christin's UNH experience. Starting in 2013 In the spring of 2017, she began a two year term as Councilor on the created an independent study with UNH’s Associate Vice Provost of Innovation and New Hampshire Legislative Youth Advisory CouncilVentures. Her responsibilities included promoting independent study explores the importance possibility of renewable energy and energy efficiency, developing recommendations an interdisciplinary course for State Energy Strategy upper-class engineering and changes business students that would allow them to existing legislation, serving as liaison to State Energy Committee, Energy Efficiency Sustainable Energy Board, and advising the NH Legislature on issues of concern to NH youth. This policy work was instrumental in Christin being hired collaboratively apply senior design projects as a Scholar Intern at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) the summer of 2015product or business solution.</span>

While working <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">After participating in Washington D.C. she analyzed the significance UIF Silicon Valley Meet-up in March of comprehensive state energy planning for national policy. She also facilitated stakeholder input sessions to inform analysis and policy recommendations under the Quadrennial Energy Review. 2017, Christin also had the opportunity was reinvigorated to compose talking points on climate initiatives for Administration officials. &nbsp; During continue her time at DOE Christin made the time to conduct networking interviews efforts with a wide variety of professionals fellow UNH UIFs in the field of energy. As a result of these interviewscreating new opportunities that help their fellow UNH wildcats develop an entrepreneurial mindset, define problems, Christin changed her major to engineering and expects to graduate May of 2019. She enjoys her studies and understands the importance of learning how things work while at the same time working to invent more sustainable solutions to our world’s innovatively address global challenges. &nbsp;</span>

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