Riley

My son is a natural born leader. He loves learning and science is his absolute favorite subject! He's a special kid

Placed 16th

in their group

Thank you for supporting Riley in this year's competition. Your participation made a huge impact for The Planetary Society and their mission to inspire curiosity and help shape the future of space exploration for everyone.



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Why They Love Being a Student

He loves to learn new things and helping fellow classmates achieve their goals as well. He is excelling in school this year making honor roll for the past 2 marking periods. When he doesn't understand something he will keep learning until he understands, especially how things work in a mechanical sense.

Favorite Subject & Why

Science! He absolutely loves science because he enjoys doing an experiment after coming up with a hypothesis on what is going to happen and testing it out. If it doesn't work, he is happy to try again. He even got invited to join science club this year which he thoroughly enjoys!

How $20,000 Would Support Their Goals

He has a huge goal to be an engineer at NASA. $20,000 would be a nice start on the education he would need to achieve his dreams!

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