Hi, I’m Parker Raymond

Since I was young, I've been a deep thinker wanting to help the world. My heart hurt when someone was upset, and I started paying attention to little things that I thought could make a difference. I made an effort to be a true friend and son, I embraced the idea that who you are in private is who you really are, and I started realizing how people affected nature and how nature affected people. When I was in middle school, I would go to a stream to test the pH of the water and pick up garbage, ensuring the people who walked down the path after me wouldn't have to deal with the trash. Something happened though. The next week there was more trash. And the week after that, too! It must have dawned on me at a young age, there's a problem with the interactions between people and the world. Becoming a Biosystems Engineer, I've taken up the cause of helping people and the world, and I've scaled up from cleaning the stream by my school. My goal is to instill God given value in people and to help their relationship with the world by reducing the vast amount of waste we have, improving fossil free energy, and bettering agricultural practices for food production through scientific application and engineering design. This generation has big problems, but with a lot of smart minds working together, we can solve them.