Mentor: Sammy Yevak

Bio: Matthew Steele is a Colorado native who just graduated from Northeastern Junior College with an associate's degree. He loves learning in every field, especially tinkering, experiments, chemistry, mechanical and applied sciences. And mathematics! He would like to make fuel out of algae one day.

Matthew is the fourth of five children, and always had a sibling to bounce ideas off of. As a person living with autism, he wants to show that differences don’t mean “impossible,” but just different ways of thinking and processing the world around us.

View Matthew's elevator speech [YouTube]

View Matthew's RECCS 2023 presentation [Youtube]

View Matthew's poster [PDF]