Grace Finlayson Email & Phone Number

Rochester, Ny, Us

Lanham, Maryland, United States

Short-term contract role building Halloween mazes where I was the main English-Spanish translator for the scenic artist team.

Murgia, Basque Country, Spain

Responsible for creating engaging and informative lessons on the English language and American culture for students aged 12-16 in the Spanish public school system. I create all of my own lessons, and I have presented on topics from the rules of American football, to Broadway and immigration in America. This role includes navigating the Spanish bureucratic system independently and working with Spanish teachers to provide a great educational experience for the students.

Worked for CERN on a quality control team for new tileboards for the upcoming upgrade to the HGCAL. Achievements:- Built Jupyter notebooks to demonstrate quality control functionsand their responses to pseudodata- Built quality control functions in python to extract parametersfrom detector tiles- Streamlined data-saving for the quality control program from .txtfiles to root files

New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States

SPS is a student run organization dedicated to supporting undergraduates in physics at Rutgers University. My role as President was to set the direction of the club and organize the eboard team leaders. I also liased directly with the physics department and was able to build new connections and secure new sources of funding for our club. Projects included selling sweatshirts, technical events series, upgrading the physics lounge, and taking trips to educational development meetings.

New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States

I performed high energy experimental particle physics research under Professor John Paul Chou on MATHUSLA at CERN. MATHUSLA is a new proposed detector at CERN, and my research has focused mainly on simulating sources of background at the detector in C++. My work has led to an award winning senior thesis and credit as an author on a published paper.Achievements:- Modified detector simulations using C++ and Linux to collectdata on expected particle behavior- Analyzed and… Show more I performed high energy experimental particle physics research under Professor John Paul Chou on MATHUSLA at CERN. MATHUSLA is a new proposed detector at CERN, and my research has focused mainly on simulating sources of background at the detector in C++. My work has led to an award winning senior thesis and credit as an author on a published paper.Achievements:- Modified detector simulations using C++ and Linux to collectdata on expected particle behavior- Analyzed and presented research findings in public settings toprofessors and fellow students- Awarded Highest Honors in Physics for thesis written on thisresearch Show less

Worked as a private tutor in high school pre-calculus and chemistry.

Leader of the Columbia High School stage crew club, as as well as stage manager of the main musical production which included over 50 crew members. Responsibilities included hanging lights, constructing the set, organizing crew members, working with theater professionals, and ultimately calling the show.