VRSS student Kim Rink is among the 2018 winners of Aviation Week’s Tomorrow's Technology Leaders: The 20 Twenties.

The awards recognize students who are nominated by their universities on the basis of their academic performance, civic contribution and research or design project. More broadly, the program is part of an over-arching effort to bring together technology hiring managers, students and faculty to recognize the full circle of what is required for business and academic success.

The winners will be honored during Aviation Week’s 61st Annual Laureates Awards March 1 at the National Building Museum, Washington, DC.

Kim is a Master’s student in the VRSS lab. Her concentration area is aerospace systems and her research is a joint effort with the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, where they are determining how deviations in the design process affect the success of robotic missions. She enjoying traveling, backpacking, painting and trying strange food.

“I am very honored to receive this recognition,” she says. “I am very appreciative of my research group and AAE for helping me get there!”