Welcome to Denali's Desk here at Oreganet. Denali is 14 years old.
Denali is in eighth grade. She likes to roller blade, bike, play baseball, and write songs.
This year her big project was NASA TechRise, The Paint of Space. It’s a small capsule designed to test the behavior of paint drying in microgravity. Here’s the description:
Our team’s idea is to test if paint drying in microgravity will affect the color, texture, or dry time of the paint. In our experiment, we will expel paint into a foam roller using a syringe. The foam roller will begin painting an aluminum panel, which will move back and forth by rack and pinion powered by a servo motor.
She managed the project and team, helped figure out the mechanicals, and programmed the microcontroller to run the servo that pushed the paint out of a syringe onto a panel. Her team finally sent it off to NASA at the end of October, and it’s targeted for a launch on Blue Origin sometime spring 2023. Check out the pictures!
Check out her Creative Writing, including her Christmas story (written Dec 2016). This could be the beginning of a new section for Cookie Chronicles.
Check out Denali's works of art in thephoto gallery.
Visit Denali’s recital page for her musical work at camp.
Click here for some assorted pictures and portraits of Denali.
