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Fellow:Alyssa Norris

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<kbd><span id="docs-internal-guid-f23f0ee8-751f-d83e-29b5-6d5048127960"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alyssa Norris is a University Innovation Fellow and an undergraduate student studying civil and environmental engineering at [[File:Norris Alyssa 03.jpg|thumb]]Washington State University (WSU). &nbsp;She is interested in renewable energy and</span></span></kbd><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">policy, but she loves math and science which is why she is pursuing an engineering degree. &nbsp;She is originally from North Pole, Alaska and had lived there most of her life before moving to Washington to attend college. &nbsp;She was first introduced to the University Innovation Fellows when she was a freshman working as a volunteer at her university’s TEDx event.</span>



<kbd><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During her college career at Washington State University Alyssa has been a very involved and active student, being president of her university’s chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), president of her university’s Entrepreneurship Club, an All-Campus Senator for student government, a member of the concrete canoe team for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and an Honors College facilitator. &nbsp;In her spare</span></span></kbd><span id="docs-internal-guid-f23f0ee8-751f-d83e-29b5-6d5048127960"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><kbd>time</kbd></span></span><kbd><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">she enjoys teaching local youth about the fun of science as a volunteer teacher as part of a NASA Space-Science program, and hiking, fishing, and skiing.</span></span></kbd>

<br/><kbd><span id="docs-internal-guid-f23f0ee8-751f-d83e-29b5-6d5048127960"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since Alyssa was young she has been interested in innovation and entrepreneurship. &nbsp;Growing up in a small town never held her back, and she sought out every opportunity for travel and exposure to new places and things. &nbsp;In 2014 she was awarded an Undergraduate Fulbright Award which allowed her to study abroad in the United Kingdom learning about the Transatlantic trade, and leadership styles across the ages. &nbsp;The next year she was selected as a Mount Vernon Leadership Fellow and was able to spend a summer in Washington, DC working on projects around rural renewable energy policy. &nbsp;It was here that she learned the importance of community and social entrepreneurship. &nbsp;On campus, and in her daily life she is interested in cross-discipline collaboration and learning. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></kbd>





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