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Nathan LaWarre is a University Innovation Fellow and an undergrad at <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#808080;">'''Serving as UIF Since:'''&nbsp;Spring 2017<br />'''School:&nbsp;'''Western Michigan University. He is majoring in electrical engineering with a [[File<br />'''What he does now:Nathan UIF Profile.JPG|thumb|Nathan UIF Profile.JPG]]minor in environmental studies '''&nbsp;Partner and sustainability. Nathan is originally from Grand Rapids, MI, but moved to Kalamazoo, MI, in 2015 to attend college. He currently works Firmware Engineer at Velocity Research<br />'''What that means:'''&nbsp;Business partner helping run the business as a tutor in the Kalamazoo high schools and at an architectural engineering firm well as an intern. Nathan hopes to one day work in the renewable energy field researching firmware engineer helping design and creating more efficient sources of energy.improve products</span></span>

[[File:Nathan is an active member of the sunseeker team at WMU which is a team of students that come together to build a solar powered race car. Through this club he has learned how to solder and incase solar panels, work with PCB boards, and work within a team. Nathan is also on the executive board of the Innovation club at WMU which he helped to start. The innovation club strives to get students excited about learning and giving hands on experience. Nathan is also apart of the math club and financial board at his church. He volunteers with Disabeled Students Services on his campus, driving physically disabled students from class to class. He also volunteers with Drive Safe Kalamazoo, giving safe rides home to students on the weekends. Nathan is also a memeber of the Lee Honors College and WMU. Outside of school he enjoys creating lasting relationships, being with friends, and experimenting with his arduino. Nathan has two younger sisters in high school, four dogs, and two cats, which were all left at his parents house (thank goodness)UIF Profile.JPG|thumb]]

<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#808080;">'''Contact him about:'''&nbsp;Student run Makerspaces, Makerspace startups, design thinking workshops, recruiting new fellows at your school, emotional support, or literally anything to do with food&nbsp; &nbsp;<br />'''Email:&nbsp;'''nathan.lawarre@gmail.com<br />'''Phone:&nbsp;'''<span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">(616) 902-8802</span></span></span><div><br /></div><span style="font-size:small;">Nathan has always been very passionate about leadership LaWarre is a University Innovation Fellow and communicationgraduate from Western Michigan University. He strives to merge these passions graduated in December of 2019 with a Bachelors degree in computer engineering with his interest a minors in the natural environment to better educate people on the impacts of climate change. He plans to do this through the Innovation Club on his campuscomputer science, holding speakersmath, siminarsand environmental studies and sustainability. Nathan is originally from Grand Rapids, workshopsMI, and pop-up classesstill lives in the area. He hope University Innovation Fellows will help him along this pathcurrently works as a partner and firmware design engineer at Velocity Research. As a partner he helps with the day to day of running a new business. As a firmware engineer he designs and creates embedded software for many different projects.</span>

<span style="font-size:small;">In his college days, Nathan was an active member of the sunseeker team at WMU which is a team of students that come together to build a solar powered race car. Nathan was also on the executive board and founder of the Innovation club at WMU. The innovation club strives to get students excited about learning and giving hands on experience. They have created a makerspace for students as well as a fund that alleviates the financial burden of projects for students. He has helped to create a design thinking workshop for incoming freshman that which is taught in many entry level courses. Nathan was also apart of the math club and financial board at his church. He volunteered with Disabled Students Services on his campus, driving physically disabled students from class to class. He also volunteered with Drive Safe Kalamazoo, giving safe rides home to students on the weekends. Nathan was also a member of the Lee Honors College at WMU. Outside of work he enjoys creating lasting relationships, being with friends, and experimenting with microcontrollers. Nathan has two younger sisters in high school, six dogs, and two cats, which were all left at his parents house (thank goodness).</span> <span style="font-size:small;">Nathan has always been very passionate about leadership and communication. He strives to merge these passions with his interest in helping others to better the lives of people around the world through technology. Nathan, while in school, strived to do this through the Innovation Club on his campus, holding speakers, seminars, workshops, and pop-up classes. He now is bringing these passions into his work space in anyway he can. UIF has been a key part in furthering his goals.</span> =Related Links= Graduated Fellows:&nbsp;[http://universityinnovation.org/Persefoni%20Lauhon Persefoni_Lauhon], [[Zach Crawford|Zach_Crawford]],&nbsp;[http://universityinnovation.org/Mackenzie%20Preston Mackenzie Preston],&nbsp;[http://universityinnovation.org/Jill%20Puckett Jill Puckett] Current Fellows:&nbsp;'''Nathan LaWarre,&nbsp;[[Saleh Mohamed|Saleh_Mohamed]],&nbsp;[[Megan miller|Megan_miller]],&nbsp;[[Daniel Mozel|Daniel_Mozel]],&nbsp;[[Andreas Hobelsberger|Andreas_Hobelsberger]]''' University:&nbsp;[[Western Michigan University|Western_Michigan_University]] [[Category:Students Student Contributors|Students_ContributorsStudent_Contributors]][[Category:Western_Michigan_University_(2017_Spring_cohort)]][[Category:Student Contributors]]{{CatTree|Western_Michigan_University}}