My name is Olivia Marino, and this curation shows my growth as a student at the University of Connecticut, where I am learning to balance human stories with technical systems. Looking at these three artifacts together, they tell a story of how I take three things and put them together create a bigger picture. The connection between these artifacts is my interest in how we adapt and solve problems. In my essay on Anna Virkerman, I used writing to piece together her journey from Ukraine to America, showing how she used poetry to handle trauma. My reverse engineering project used a more hands-on approach, where I took a device apart to understand its physical logic. Now, my solar-powered bridge project brings these skills together to create a sustainable solution for a community. Using different modes, like writing for an essay and spatial design for a bridge, lets me communicate in different ways. Writing helps me explore emotions and history, while engineering lets me build functional tools. Over time, I’ve noticed my work moving from just studying other people’s ideas to creating my own projects. As a an Engineering student, this portfolio shows that I care about how my work impacts others. It proves that whether I am writing or building, my goal is to make things more accessible and helpful.