Hi! I'm Mike Chase, an engineering student at the University of Dayton. I graduated from Walsh Jesuit high school in 2017 in Cuyahoga Falls (around Cleveland, OH) where I've been a part of just about everything. At Walsh, I've been in a jazz band, started a robotics club where we competed in FTC tournaments, taught an introduction to computers class, ran/maintained graphics in the football stadium, and ran lighting for plays, musicals, and anything that happened to be going on in the theater.

Outside of school, I take taekwondo classes to stay healthy. I used to help teach classes before I became busy. Before that, I used to be a gymnast until just before I entered high school. I play piano, drums, and ukulele, often playing in jam sessions or even on stage every once in a while. I compose my own music on my free time. Nothing good enough to publish, but I'm getting better and better each song I create with a MIDI keyboard, a microphone, and garage band on my Mac.

When I'm not in school, I work as a chemist at a company called Chromascape, where we develop pigments for mainly mulch and concrete, but other products as well. We don't tend to sell our colors to people directly, but rather other businesses like mulch companies or cement companies. I've also completed a small internship at NASA where I shadowed a variety people in the engineering field. The experience was amazing, and it allowed me to see all the different parts of the engineering field and led me to choose a more specific major: electrical engineering.