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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">The UIF Team's main project is the Winter Intensive, but my personal project as a fellow is called "Building Bl</span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">oc</span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">ks." </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Building Blocks is a year-long project intensive in which art, architecture, and engineering students work together for Consensus Systems to build a blockchain-based application. </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Intrinsic in every professional project is collaboration between disciplines. Blockchains can be compared to the Internet, which requires user interface and user experience design as well as full-stack development to produce a service with which humans can interact.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">I first joined the Cooper community as a senior in high school to participate in Invention Factory, an intensive Cooper Union accelerator program. </span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The selective program guides 20 students through a rigorous process of invention: Participants conceive of and prototype inventions, present their inventions each week to guest evaluators, file a provisional patent application and participate in a competition at which a panel of distinguished designers, inventors, engineers and patent attorneys choose the best inventions. Anushree Sreedhar and I won second place for our invention of the SEAL fire extingusiher, and have since been named MIT-Lemelson Finalists, Collegiate Inventor Competition Finalists, and a Venturewell E Team. </span></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year, as a freshman, the relationships I developed with the student body enabled me to try and truly enjoy an electrical engineering course that informed the cryptographic research I did at my summer internship, play college basketball with girls I now call my best friends, and get involved in school politics in a way that empowered me and all of my classmates to work together to impact administrative decisions. I want to continue to collaborate with my classmates to improve our institution and perpetuate the ideals of Peter Cooper.</span>
