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Adam Bertal

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Bio

My life goals are to passionately pursue my dreams of becoming a software engineer while honing my skills to better online user interfaces and develop life changing apps/websites that can transform peoples daily lives. I want to make a difference in the computer world with what I do best.

Education

George Mason University

Bachelor's degree program
2021 - 2025
  • Majors:
    • Computer Science

Miscellaneous

  • Desired degree level:

    Doctoral degree program (PhD, MD, JD, etc.)

  • Graduate schools of interest:

  • Transfer schools of interest:

  • Majors of interest:

  • Not planning to go to medical school
  • Career

    • Dream career field:

      Computer Software

    • Dream career goals:

      Senior Software Engineer

      Sports

      Swimming

      Varsity
      2018 – 20191 year

      Awards

      • best freshman swimmer

      Future Interests

      Entrepreneurship

      Suraj Som Aspiring Educators Scholarship
      My philosophy about the relationship between spirituality science and math is that they are all connected in some way shape or form benefiting off one another in differing perspectives. Likewise, I passionately fell in love with these subjects at a very young age always looking up at the stars and wondering how long the light takes to travel from space down to rendering view. Interestingly enough, my junior year of high school I began my IA (internal assessment; project) for my IB physics class. I chose a subject that could connect both physics, math and coincidentally spirituality. My topic was about space where for generations people have looked up at the sky staring at the wonderful phenomena that beheld them. More specifically, I conducted my IA on the relationship of orbital periods and their distance from the sun. In other words I would look at the relationship between how far planets are from the sun and correlate that to their orbital periods using log graphs. However, the key objective for this project wasn’t just to figure out this relationship, but it was to come up with a formula to predict other planet’s elliptical orbits in our solar system. What helped me do this were two astronomers in the mid to late 1700’s named Titius and Bode who discovered a geometric sequence between the distances of the planets. My twist on this was: “could there be another relationship based on their orbit”? Thus, the first step was calculating their planetary distance in astronomical units and then dividing this term by their orbital period. The sequences of numbers that were produced were very similar with one another, thus my hypothesis was correct; they too have a geometric sequence. Furthermore, I plotted all my points to create a well structured log graph since I rearranged the geometric formula d=ab^n into log d = log a + nlog b using the logarithmic properties to be able to graph and used Desmos regression tool to find the gradient. To my surprise, I had come up with a formula that was quite close in predicting this where log a is my y intercept and log b is the gradient and n is the nth planet away from the sun. With my formula I was able to predict a planet that had been somewhat recently discovered back in 2006 to which I unfortunately can’t remember the name to. My theoretical result was very close to its actual orbital period. I chose to talk about this to show how closely math, science and spirituality are all connected. With just a simple question about the stars when I was young led me to further my passion later on with this IA. This is exactly how scientists and famous philosophers such as Aristotle and Galileo came to think as well; it all started with one simple question. Space especially, connects all these three fields into one. Lastly, understanding the cosmos has always been a long hobby of mine and hopefully with my major in computer science I can code programs to be able to contribute to this ever growing field. With the help of this scholarship, I hope to accomplish this. Thank you!