National Award Recipient

While a panelist at the NCAA Final Four Innovation Summit, Peyton spoke to the importance of science and technology education. At the Pebble Beach Pro Am Celebrity Challenge Peyton was paired with Clint Eastwood and PGA Professional Jimmy Walker. Together the three won $200,000 for science and math charities, $100,000 of which was donated to a charity founded by Peyton - the Multiplied Foundation. The Multiplied Foundation’s mission is to support and expand STEM education. Each year, the Multiplied Foundation distributes 5% of its value to non-profit organizations or events supporting STEM education. Later this year, Peyton and the Multiplied Foundation will host Hack-A-Thon 1.0 – an event designed to introduce coding concepts and inspire future coders. In presentations, Peyton communicates complex science concepts succinctly and math practically. Peyton’s recent biology research, published in the Journal of Tropical Diseases & Public Health, has focused on the ways innate RNA interference renders mosquitos asymptomatic to arboviral infection and how their immunity may provide new approaches to combat mosquito borne illness. Peyton is currently coding a Virtual Integrated Mass Collider which simulates the outcomes of planetary mass interactions, macroscopic collisions, and sub-atomic collisions (based on the CERN collider results) in order to develop an environment in which scientists and students can experiment with the outcomes of hypothetical collider experiments across mass sizes.

It is with excitement and honor that we award the 2017/2018 National STEM Award to Peyton Robertson.