Aggies Create — HotWatt
From a cost-effective feral hog deterrent to founding HotWatt: student engineering teams, from problem to prototype.
A–AAggies Create
Aggies Create is a Texas A&M student engineering organization where teams take real problems from concept to working hardware. I joined in January 2025 as a team member, then founded and led my own team from August 2025 to May 2026.
B–BFirst Build: The Hog Deterrent
Feral hogs are a billion-dollar-a-year problem for American agriculture. My first semester, I worked with a team to develop a cost-effective hog deterrent — a solution priced for the farmers and landowners actually absorbing the damage, not just those who can afford industrial exclusion fencing.
[Placeholder — add: how the deterrent works, what you prototyped and tested, results in the field.]
C–CHotWatt
Then I founded and led HotWatt, a team exploring the use and market fit of thermoelectric power for novel applications — turning waste heat and temperature differentials directly into usable electricity, and figuring out where that trick actually earns its keep commercially.
[Placeholder — add: the applications you targeted, what the team built or measured, where the market research pointed.]
D–DWhat Leading It Taught Me
[Placeholder — a short reflection on founding and leading a technical team: recruiting, scoping, keeping momentum between semesters.]