Lighting the Torch: One Alumnus's Mission to Inspire Future STEM Leaders

Support of the Caltech Science Olympiad planning team and the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) program reflects one graduate's gratitude for experiences that shaped his own journey.

Peter Hung (BS '08, MS '12, PhD '16) solved his first problem at Caltech while he was in high school. He and his friends were trying to build a Rube Goldberg machine for Science Olympiad, a science and engineering competition sponsored by a nonprofit that serves K–12 students.

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