Cooper is a rising junior at Athens Academy who joined Dr. Felix Santiago-Collazo’s Compound Inundation Team for Resilient Applications (CITRA) Lab during the summer of 2024 for the Young Scholars Program (YSP) at UGA. Cooper has always enjoyed learning about STEM in school, and applied for the internship as a productive way to explore those interests over the summer. He spent six weeks of his summer working with Dr. Santiago and graduate student Orlando Viloria-Marimón on modeling watersheds in Puerto Rico.
