Hello fellow bloggers and welcome! My name is Kayvon Tadj and I am a senior at BASIS Scottsdale. Us seniors are given a rather unique and amazing opportunity to spend our third and final trimester of high school on a research project in place of going to school. The focus of my project is engineering, but I have many non-academic hobbies as well. I have played rugby since the 5th grade and plan to continue through college; contrarily, I have attend a Zumba class at least once a week for the past year and a half! I absolutely love doing both and I feel that they are two way different modes of my expression. I also absolutely love to travel! I have family in Iran, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, France, and Canada. I have visited all those countries except Australia and Switzerland (which I plan to go to on my Europe backpacking trip this summer)! Speaking of which, if any of you fellow Internet wanderers have experience with European travels and would recommend strategies, cities, or places to go, I’d love to hear about it.

Starting early February, I will begin my Internship with Intel under the guidance of Thierry Godart. My research is focused on developing a new wave of smart inverters, which will, ideally, be considerably more advancements than any smart inverters on the market. I have been tasked with researching current inverters, creating new ones, providing Intel and its consumers with a proper application for them, and creating a marketing strategy to distribute them. The project is definitely overwhelming and I would surprise myself, and my supervisor, if I were able to finish everything in the allotted 10 weeks.

I absolutely love math, physics, engineering, and anything related to them, so this Research Project perfectly matches my interests and will help me improve my skills. I will be spending most of my time researching with my supervisor and developing new models while making occasional stops at Intel labs. I am super excited to begin the first chapter of my life after high school and will be making weekly posts to keep you all up to date! Furthermore, any time I come across any cool or interesting "Phun Physics Phacts," I will add a link and description for any other Physics enthusiasts like me to see.

Signing off and hope to hear feedback from you all in a few months,

Kayvon Tadj