Viking Magazine - May 2018 - 34

Member Matters
Pursuing Her Passion
Viking talks with Nancy Lorraine Jensen Memorial Scholarship
recipient Shiloh Curtis about life at MIT, her interest in robots
and plans after graduation. BY CHAPIN BLANCHARD
M
eet Shiloh Curtis, a
sophomore at Massachusetts
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Institute of Technology (MIT),
Sons of Norway member and
recipient of the Sons of Norway
Foundation's Nancy Lorraine
Jensen Memorial Scholarship.
The scholarship, awarded to
young women studying science
or engineering, has helped Curtis
study at MIT and immerse herself
in a passion she discovered at a
young age: robotics.
Curtis, who turns 19 this
month, has already made a
mark in the robotics fi eld. She
created the H-NAV, a hat-based
navigation aid for the visually
impaired. The device uses the
same type of sensor found on
self-driving cars to help detect
obstacles at approximately head
height, Curtis explains. Vibrations
in the hatband then indicate the
position of the obstacles to the
user. She's received eight awards
for her work on the H-NAV -
not to mention fi ve additional
awards for other achievements.
Although Curtis' main focus
is robotics and not assistive
technology, she cares deeply
about disability rights. " I want to
help disabled users become more
autonomous, so they're free to
pursue their own interests and
passions, " she says.
Life at MIT is busy for Curtis.
When she's not in class - her
favorite is Robotics: Science
and Systems - Curtis might be
found playing her violin, knitting
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mittens in the Norwegian style
or painting small murals on her
bedroom walls - which the
school allows. Occasionally,
Curtis will attend the robotics
meetup that her father brought
her to as a child. Now, however,
she attends remotely from her
dorm room using a telepresence
robot she built with her dad.
While graduation is still two
years away, Curtis plans to go
to grad school to get her PhD in
robotics and then start working
in the industry. In the meantime,
Curtis will intern at Iron Ox over
the summer - a startup near
her hometown of Sunnyvale that
uses robots for indoor produce
farming - and spend time
building robots with her dad.
Name:
Shiloh Curtis
Hometown:
Sunnyvale, Calif.
College:
Sophomore at MIT
Sons of Norway
member since:
2012
Fond memory:
Dancing in the Barneleikarring
at Nordahl Grieg lodge
See more from the
interview on May 15 at
sonsofnorway.com/blog.

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