Alec Katz

Alec is pursuing a major in Aerospace Engineering with a minor in Computer Science at Stanford University. In 2019, he graduated with a GPA in the top 1% at Harvard Westlake while juggling various extracurricular activities ranging from aviation to soccer. In his junior year of high school, Alec won an $8,000 grant to start Soles4Good, a social microenterprise that sources and provides shoes to Senegal’s street youth. A master of both earth and sky, Alec is a licensed pilot and served as captain of his high school varsity soccer team.

At Stanford, Alec was recently selected by engineers from NASA Ames Research Center as the winner of a design competition in his "How To Design A Space Mission'' class. He is conducting research for Stanford’s GPS Lab and Lockheed Martin as the only undergraduate among a sea of PhD students. This summer, he will be working remotely for Paradise Games, a gaming and e-learning company in the Ivory Coast with Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, where he will make trade studies on how to diversify and expand the company. Though Alec is basically qualified to build a spaceship and lead a group of high schoolers to the moon this summer, his focus will remain on teaching math, computer science and even soccer, given the limitations of this moment in time. Alec inspires students to aim high and reach for the sky!