Julie Seven Sage

At the age of 10 she enrolled in college level astrophysics course on edx.org given by Harvard University called Super Earths and Life. Julie’s grade at the end of the course was 96%. She also took a public speaking course given by Washington State University, where she received a grade of 100%. For 2 years Julie helped run and mentor younger girls in a local chapter of Girls Who Code, where she helped the girls learn Scratch block programming and basic HTML.

This was also the second year Julie won spots on the NASA sounding rocket and high-altitude balloon for experiments with the Cubes In Space program. Julie was asked to be a part of the Wonderama TV show. She traveled to New York City to film a segment where she demonstrated the Bernoulli Principle with something she built called the Bernoulli Blower. The episode was aired in February of 2019. Julie also attended her first Maker Faire in New York City where she conducted interviews with well-known makers and with all of the young cast members of Mythbusters Jr. Julie was then featured as the scientist interviewed in the Marvel comic The Unstoppable Wasp, the comic was brought back by Marvel and she was in the new #1 issue. In November Julie was one of the session hosts for the TEDx Youth @ Beacon Street.

In May Julie was asked to be a delegate at America's Promise Alliance State of Young People conference, held at Facebook HQ in California. She participated in various talks and workshops where, along with other young people, she talked about the problems they are facing today and discussed ways to work through them.

Julie, for the third year in a row, won a spot on a NASA sounding rocket and high-altitude balloon for science experiments with the Cubes In Space program. At RocketFest2019 held at NASA Wallops, Julie received an award for Outstanding Student Ambassador for the Cubes In Space program. She is also continuing in the MIT Media Lab cube sat program, where they will launch a proto-type of the cube sat with a high-altitude balloon. Julie was invited to attend the YouTube events of EduCon and VidCon in Anaheim, CA. She attended a number of talks and workshops to learn how to make her YouTube channel more successful. Julie was able to meet a lot of people at both events, some have even expressed interest in working with her on some videos.

In the summer Julie entered into the XPRIZE Next-Gen Mask Challenge, where she designed her own face mask. She was one of nearly 1000 teams that entered from around the world, and one of the youngest to enter an XPRIZE competition. Her design made it to the Top 10 where she worked with 3M to create a prototype. Julie learned a lot in the process and continues to work on her mask design so that she can get it produced and made available to the public.

In 2021, Julie lead a panel of young scientists at the Women in Space virtual conference in early October. The panel discussed what girls need from adults in order to get interested in STEAM subjects and to stay involved in STEAM. In November Julie was the Student Spotlight Speaker at the Christa McAuliffe Transforming Teaching Technology Conference in Manchester, NH. Her talk was titled “STEAM vs. Sports: How Sports Shows Us a New Way to Teach STEAM”. She shared her thoughts and ideas with teachers from a kid’s perspective on how to get kids more interested in STEAM subjects and to keep them interested.

Julie graduated from high school with honors in June 2022. She was a member of the National Honor Society, Math Honor Society, and Science Honor Society. In the fall she started her college career at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Julie is majoring in Physics and minoring in Mathematics and Theater Arts. She did very well in her first year, making the Dean’s List for both semesters.

Julie continues to work towards her dreams of becoming an astrophysicist and a science communicator. Through the various social media outlets Julie promotes scientists and their work, as well as bringing attention to the younger generation of scientists, STEM activists, makers, and inventors. She regularly attends the public events at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics and reads all she can to keep up with the latest discoveries and findings in astrophysics.