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Stephen Kender is a freshman Plastics Engineering major at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. A member of the Honors College, he currently has a 3.64 GPA and has made the Dean's List'<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1. Stephen has had an freshman year full of things to do4; he is a member of the Prefont-Law Society's Mock Trial team, and won multiple awards at entrepreneurial competitions for his creation of KEnDERS Athletic Body Armor. He is an Eagle Scout and volunteers often as an size: larger;"Open Space Steward><span style=" in his hometown of Chelmsfordmargin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: georgia, MA, keeping public property in good condition at no cost to the town.serif;">Engineering Entrepreneur Always Looking up for Inspiration</span></span>''

As <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: small;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">In the past few years Stephen has had the privilege to work with many industry professionals in order to better his skills in engineering techniques and entrepreneurship. He was chosen to be a freshmanresearch intern at MIT Lincoln Laboratory twice, and while there gained valuable professional experience in machini</span></span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: small;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">ng and fabrication.</span></span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: small;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: verdana, geneva, Stephen sans-serif;">His experiences inside and outside the classroom have built him into the person he is also today, with a heart for innovation and a candidate mind for engineering. He put this enthusiasm into his invention, KEnDERS Athletic Body Armor, a novel sports equipment designed to become withstand higher impacts and reduce the costs (and risks) of playing sports. In a few months he and his twin sisters raised almost $5,000 from university-sponsored competitions, and they are currently in the process of testing their prototypes.</span></span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: small;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">From the University Innovation Fellow representing Fellows program he hopes to develop, improve upon, and spread skills in innovation and entrepreneurship. It will provide an exceptional networking opportunity for him. As a representative of UMass Lowell , he hopes to bring back as much as he can in order to engage students in the process of innovation. After graduating, he hopes to become a national engineering entrepreneurship program run by VentureWellbiomedical engineer, working to design and develop the next generation of prosthetic devices.</span></span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: small;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.&nbsp4; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">In his free time, Stephen enjoys designing in 2- and 3-dimensions, as well as playing a variety of casual sports. He likes mathematical phenomena, beach days, and has recently taken up a telescope hobby to feed his addiction to space exploration.</span></span></div>