Podcasts Education College Matters. Alma Matters. Daniel Cudzich of UI Urbana-Champaign: Material Science & Engineering, Goldwater Scholarship, and Battery Research.

Daniel Cudzich of UI Urbana-Champaign: Material Science & Engineering, Goldwater Scholarship, and Battery Research.

Published: Jan. 10, 2024, 1:24 a.m.

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Daniel took all the AP Classes his High School offered. He loved AP US History. He was also very active in the Science Olympiad and really enjoyed it because it involved building things.

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He was also fortunate to have been in a high school where there was a class dedicated to doing research. It was here that Daniel cut his teeth in research, and got his hands dirty doing Battery technology.

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Daniel joins our podcast to share his undergraduate college journey at UIUC, Battery Research, Winning the Goldwater Scholarship, Summer Internships, and Advice for High Schoolers.

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In particular, we discuss the following with him:\\xa0

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  • UIUC Experience
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  • UG Research - Battery Research
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  • The Goldwater Scholarship
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  • Advice to High Schoolers
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Topics discussed in this episode:

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  • Introduction to Daniel Cudzich, UIUC []
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  • Hi Fives - Podcast Highlights []
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  • Overall UIUCExperience []
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  • Why UIUC? []
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  • High School Interests []
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  • Battery Research[]
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  • Why Battery Research []
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  • Transition to UIUC []
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  • Peers []
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  • UG Research []
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  • Impact of Research []
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  • Why Goldwater Scholarship? []
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  • The Goldwater Difference []
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  • Summer Internships []
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  • Advice for High Schoolers []
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  • Memories []
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Our Guests: Daniel Cudzich is a Goldwater Scholar studying Material Science & Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Memorable Quote: \\u201cAnd this goes to one of the things that I really want to emphasize about the research process and it\'s that you will fail. You quite literally are doing things that nobody else has ever done. But there\'s so much value in that even if what you learned from the research project is what not to do, right. \\u201d Daniel Cudzich.

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Episode Transcript: Please visit Episode\\u2019s Transcript.

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