1. Personal Presentation Margarita Leonova

2. Significant educational experiences Studio experiences / Open ended projects High school art class Summer studio immersion program at Colorado College Junior year housing studio

3. Teachers who cared and challenged me High/intimidating standards Negative reinforcement with final reward Working outside my comfort zone

4. Being in an “exclusive” environment where every student had to compete to get there

5. Early years… Having foreign parents who thought the American education system was not rigorous enough Learning the Russian elementary school curriculum along side American curriculum in case my parents chose to go back

6. High school… Art class/competitions/comissions Longer projects – had to do many assessments for IB program to get diploma Summer programs college prep that I got into Being editor of high school news paper

7. College Studio experiences especially housing studio Human event and other discussion classes Developing a thesis project

8. Coming to ASU… To be perfectly honest I came here because of the full ride ASU gave me and my parents didn’t have money to pay for the other schools I got into Was hopeful about the Honors College but didn’t have very high expectations

9. Unfulfilled experinces Would like experiences with implementation of studio projects – design/build studio Would like experience working at a firm Would like to have been more involved in extra curriculars (scheduling difficult with 2 majors) Would like more leadership experience

10. Could IW help? Allowing me to take my studio experiences further into implementation Networking to get internship

11. Aspirations Would like to run a sustainable design and construction consulting firm Contribute towards making the zero energy home affordable

12. Research question How can zero energy buildings be implemented on a large scale, eventually completely dominating the built environment?

13. Research question Resources: Visits to case study buildings Classes that provide a through understanding of building envelopes, passive cooling/heating techniques, energy generating systems that can be implemented on site Interdisciplinary team Funding for small scale implementation

14. Deliverables Conceptual design Computer modeling of different schemes Construction documents and spec sheets for products Implementation Efficiency testing Improvement proposal

15. Most important IW content Methods of implementation/ construction

16. Launching IW orgaizatoin Near term: Buildings a critical capacity of students Networking with other ASU groups by sending ambassadors Establishing a database of resources and tools available at ASU and how they can be reached Creating a database of competitions available throughout the school Long term: Building relationships with businesses Acquiring funding to run IW competitions Integrating IW with school curriculum Expanding to other schools

17. Events Presentations by guest speakers who have followed an IW-like path to achieve success Meetings with other ASU clubs/organizations Small scale challenge activities, IE egg exercise from Fail Seminar Meeting with professors about their research and how members of IW can be involved Training sessions for low and mid level tools

18. Challenges Achieving a critical capacity of members Accommodating for diversity IE speakers that will be interesting for everyone but also specific Funding for students who want to pursue topics in which competitions might not be as common