Richard Carnegie, now a junior in high school, reached out to our laboratory last spring when he became interested in neuro-engineering. While working with us in the summer of 2016, he learned to design parts and build them with a 3-D printer, design and conduct his own experiments using equipment from Backyard Brains, and writing his own data analysis code in Python. Our lab thinks his future looks bright and are looking forward to seeing him work with us more in the future.