Trey Joseph Zeiger

11697 Hoover Avenue NW Uniontown OH 44685

treyzeiger@gmail.com | Phone: 330.415.5502

Education

Lake High School

• Graduated Summa Cum Laude with Honors (June 2019)

The Ohio State University

• Current First Year enrolled as a pre-major to the College of Engineering for Computer Science
• Member of STEM Engagement and Exploration Scholars Program

Information Technology Experience

• Three years in the GenYes career-tech class at Lake High School
• Earned a 5 on the AP Computer Science Exam (May 2018)
• Worked for a summer for the Lake High School Technology Department (May 2017-August 2017)
  • Helped to clean, fix, and reimage every computer in the district.
• 3 ½ years of coding experience with Java
• Beginner experience with Python, C++, MATLAB, and HTML
• Building and Coding Lego MindStorms Robotics as well as EZ-Robots.
• College Technology courses:
  • Fundamentals of Info Systems
  • PC Upgrading and Maintenance
  • Principles of Information Security
  • Computer Hardware and Software
• Worked at Morgan Engineering as an IT Intern (May 2019-August 2019)
  • Set up new machines for the entire Engineering Department.
  • Set up pay-stub Kiosks for machine shop
  • Helped with various tasks given via employee help tickets

Leadership

• Member of the National Honor Society
• Lead Engineer on Lake’s STEM Team(1st Place)
• 6th grade Camp Counselor for Lake High School
• Over 200 hours of volunteer leadership service at School and Church

Certifications

• American Heart Association Basic Life Support (CPR and AED) (March 2017-March 2019)
• GenYes Certification (September 2017-Present)
• Google Cloud Certification (December 2018-Present)

Related Skills

Microsoft Office, Google Apps, Object-Oriented Programming, Java(J-Creator, Eclipse), Python(Wing IDE), C++(Visual Studios), HTML(Eclipse), MATLAB

Hello all!

Starting this Spring Semester, I will begin working on my Spring project for STEM Exploration and Engagement Scholars. This project consists of any goal I would like to achieve this semester that will take at least 10 hours of dedicated time to complete. After thinking about multiple possible projects, I have decided that I would like to become belay certified. This has always been a skill I’ve wanted to learn but never had the patience to fully commit to doing so. For a resource, I will be using the class offered at the OAC, which has a class that they offer in order to belay on their wall. Hopefully, I will learn to belay within the first 5 hours of practice,and then with the rest of my time, I can practice and finally get certified.

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For this post, we were tasked with attending one of the many diversity events that happen around campus. When I first learned this was the topic for this post, I’ll admit, I was a little worried. I wasn’t able to find any event I was overly excited to attend, but finally decided to attend an event called Hafel put on by OAS (Organization of Arab Students) with a group of friends. When we walked into the even, it was definitely a different atmosphere than I had expected. We were immediately greeted with the smell of authentic Arabic food, but sadly, it seemed that not very many people showed up. For the time that we were there, My group of around 10 friends made up about 50% of the attendees. However, it was still a very fun night full of food, music, and laughter. I’m not very accustomed to having so many options for cultural diversity at such close access coming from a very small town in Northeast Ohio. Where I grew up, there wasn’t much variability in our culture, especially when it comes to ethnicity. According to the most recent demographic for Uniontown Ohio, the ethnicity range is about 98% white, and the other 2% is everyone else in our town. So, as one can imagine, I grew up with a very secluded and conservative lifestyle that gave me quite the culture shock after moving to Columbus. In fact, I only graduated with 3 non-Caucasian students from my class of almost 300.

Coming to Ohio State has had such a massive influence on my mindset, both socially and culturally. I’m not going to lie, growing up in such a small town definitely affected how I look at different views, especially political and cultural views. I’ve never once been persecuted or judged based on how I think or look. Ohio State has taken that view and thrown it out the window. I have finally seen exactly what it means to be proud of who you are and where you’re from. The young men and women at Hafel were so happy for us to be there and to experience their culture along side them. They were proud to be able to show us who they are. Not only has coming to college opened my eyes to cultural diversity, but mental as well. I’ve grown around a society of like minded individuals with differences coming few and far between. Being able to come to this university has allowed me to experience the viewpoints of those with different political beliefs than I originally came here with, and caused me to think about what I believe, rather than what I was raised to think. It’s a common cliche, but college life has leas me to evaluate myself and opened me to independent living and thinking. Being able to go to an event such as this and be welcomed with open arms to experience a different culture has shown me what it truly means to open my eyes to the entire world.

(Photo credits to Hanna Fenstermaker)

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This week, we were tasked with using one of the many Campus Resources provided to us by the university. Luckily, I have been attending an event put on by the Student Wellness Center and Recreational Sports since the beginning of the year! Every week at 7 PM at the North Rec, I have been attending a class called STRONG by Zumba. STRONG is a class designed to mix a fast paced interval workout with original music specifically engineered to each move. The entire routine is driven by the music, helping participants keep track of reps as well as have a little fun along the way. According to strong.zumba.com, those who participated in a STRONG by zumba class with music burned an average of 48 more calories than those who did the same class without music. I thought this was fascinating, but I’m honestly not surprised. I often feel the beat and music pushing me to jump a little bit higher or squat a little bit lower.

I’ve been attending this class every week with a few of my friends, and so far, we’ve loved it! I feel like zumba always gets a bad reputation since people always think of the old workout tapes from the 80s and 90s that we always see on tv. Now, I can’t attest as to whether regualr zumba class offered by the Student Wellness Center is anything like this, but Strong is much more of a traditional workout, just synced to some pump up music! We actually found out recently that STRONG by zumba is actually a fairly new class in general, not just at Ohio State. It only first came to be a few years ago and Ohio State has actually been one of the front runners in it’s growth.

This past Monday, I attended one of the STRONG by zumba classes held for only 45 minutes opposed to the normal hour long session held on Wednesdays. This version of the class was very similar to the hour long alternative other than the obvious fewer songs and fewer breaks. The main difference is that this class attempted to burn you out much faster than the other due to the shorter amount of time given to do so. It was also a nice change to have a little extra time afterwards to work on my homework afterwards.

My friends and I have even started forming a connection with the instructors of our class, Raina and Victoria, staying after to talk to them about zumba and how the whole STRONG system works. Essentially, the organization that runs the program releases a new set of choreography each month for the classes and the instructors pick a mixture of them for the class each week. This provides a lot of variety to the workouts, leaving some weeks barely able to walk back to the dorm, and others leaving me barely able to open the door. Overall, I would recommend STRONG by Zumba to anyone looking for a good cardio workout with a twist.

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This past week, I attended the “Mechanisms and specificity of Cas10 mediated interference” seminar given by Jack A. Dunkle, Ph. D.. Dunkle is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry from the University of Alabama and is on a team that has been doing experiments regarding this topic. I decided to attend this seminar because of having an interest in genetics throughout my high school biology and chemistry classes. However, what I did not expect was to be completely out of my league with this topic. I had a basic understanding of how genetics and chemistry worked together before going to the seminar, and after leaving I think I may be more confused than before. It was very intimidating to enter a seminar such as this one filled with grad students and actual professionals, and even a little embarrassing once I realized that I had no idea what was going on. It helped to be there with two of my close friends, who were both able to comprehend more than me, but still lost on several topics. Having them there made me feel like it wasn’t a complete loss and pushed me to try and understand more than I actually could. Sadly, due to the intimidation and embarrassment I felt, I couldn’t force myself to talk to anyone there, which might have actually been for the better. I think if I had gone up to anyone at the seminar I would have had no clue what to talk about other than the few basic concepts I remembered from my Honors Biology class 3 years ago. Some of the concepts I was able to pick up on were ones such as chromatography, and a basic understanding of what Cas10 actually is.

For anyone who doesn’t know, Cas10 is a subset of Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats technology, also known as CRISPR. CRISPR is a genome editing technology that is still in development via the bacteria it was discovered within. It has any potential uses further in it’s developmental stages, such as correcting genetic defects, treating and preventing the spread of diseases, and improving crops. CRISPR is usually known by it’s Cas9 system, but this seminar was over Cas10, which is similar to it’s counterpart but has a couple useful differences that are still being researched. It is hoped that Cas10 will be able to do everything Cas9 is capable of with the addition of identifying genetic sequences even if they include point mutations. From what I was able to understand, most of the seminar was about why Dunkle’s team believed Cas10 was able to do this, and that’s where I was lost.

I wouldn’t say that I believe this seminar was a waste of time, I just wish I could have listened to it at a later date with a better understanding of the concepts. I’m glad that I was able to go and think that, as an undergrad, it was enlightening as to the complexity of this field. Hopefully in the future I will be able to go back and read my notes on the discussion with a higher conceptual comprehension.

This past week, in order to try out the Universities free academic resources, I visited the Math and Statistics Learning Center for help with my Calculus homework. Needless to say, this experience was very weird for me. Throughout High School, I was never one to need help with my course work, let alone ask for it. When I began having problems with one of our assignments, I decided that it was the perfect opportunity to use one of the many resources provided by the campus.

Thankfully, I have my Software 1 class in the same building as the MSLC, or else I probably wouldn’t have been able to find it. It was in the basement of Cockins Hall and down a very discreet set of hallways with arrows pointing towards the assigned room for my class. Thankfully, once I got there, I was greeted by a friendly front desk assistant who led me through signing in and understanding the system. I immediately felt welcomed in the room and not at all embarrassed to be asking for help. After putting up one of the flags to signal that I had a question, a TA promptly sat next to me and began explaining the conceptual issue I was having. I was struggling with a recent concept we learned in class known as implicit differentiation, and the TA did a wonderful job of explaining the content and even helped me through extra practice problems.

Overall, it was a very helpful and engaging experience that helped me in more ways than one. While there, I witnessed the TA’s helping students in a multitude of ways. This included giving the students example problems, describing concepts in easier terms, and even a technique that resembled more leading the student to right answer with small clues rather than straight up telling them what to do. Especially for a help center focused around Math, I believe that this last technique was probably the most effective. Math is a subject very much centered around understanding what your doing, not just memorizing a set of steps to find the correct answer. The TA that helped me didn’t do this, however I was still able to find a basic grasp of the concept that I’m hoping will be built upon during recitation.

I think help seeking is something that a lot of students struggle with. Nobody wants to admit that they’re having problems, and college is no different. I especially struggle with asking for help due to always being able to work through content on my own in high school. An easier way to do this might be through private tutoring since that provides students with a less public experience that can be more catered towards their own needs. In the past, I have thought about becoming a tutor for classes such as Chemistry, Physics, and Computer Science, due to my easy grasp on concepts and I am even still considering teaching Computer Science as my back up major if CSE doesn’t end up working out. I would definitely go to the MSLC again should i ever need more help with my course work.

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The past couple of weeks, I’ve been attending an event called “Real Life” put on by Cru, a Christian organization centered around fellowship between student. I found out about it at the involvement fair during welcome week and decided to attend the following Sunday. I attended with a couple a friends and decided that I would begin attending on a regular occasion, and during the second week, Cru introduced another opportunity to get involved in an organization, Freshman Leadership Team, otherwise known as FLT.

FLT is a sub-organization of Cru that promotes leadership and welcoming qualities in first years that want to take on a role in Cru throughout their years at OSU. The first meeting was kind of awkward, and not to mention hot; the entire room was packed with freshman eager to become a part of Cru in the future! Hopefully, going to FLT will help me take on more of a leadership role in Cru in the future, most likely something along the lines of a small group leader. Also, I’m super excited to see what  relationships I can build here with peers that have similar beliefs to me. Almost every student I met at the FLT meeting was joyful and just as excited as me to begin building a community within the club that we can use to reach those outside of it.

One thing I’ve had to adjust to is Cru meeting on Sunday nights, which is when I used to finish all of my homework during my High School years. I’ve had to be intentional about my time an where my priorities lie regarding friends, school, and faith. I will also need to begin managing my work even more if FLT leads to work outside of the meetings on Thursdays.

This last meeting, at “Real Life”, Cru invited some individuals who were from “The Thompson Institute”, an organization of Christian Professors and Scholars, to come and talk to us. I plan on getting in contact with a few of the Engineering individuals there and maybe striking up a conversation on how their faith has affected their professional decisions. Hopefully, this may even lead to connections in the future regarding research and internship opportunities.

I didn’t have any particular trouble finding Cru, my only problem was choosing between Cru and one of the other 20 or so Christian organizations on campus. There were multiple other ones that I considered and a few I even attended such as H20 and Campus City Church.  They even have small groups for each dorm to build stronger relationships with those that each student will be living with for the next year. I think that the size of OSU has a hindrance on this exact portion of student organizations. Some of the clubs seem so large that it’s hard to feel like your’re actually a tangible part of the whole. That’s the reason I decided to focus on Cru; the different community I saw within it a different community that, despite the size of the organization, they truly seemed to care for each student who attended.

Hi! My name is Trey Zeiger, I’m a freshman at The Ohio State University studying Computer Science and Engineering. I was born and raised in Uniontown, Ohio, a small town between Akron and Canton built around the Hartville Marketplace. Throughout my time at Lake High School, I was always very interested in the Maths and Sciences, as well as our very promising Computer Science classes. It was in these classes that I learned my very first programming language: python. From this, the interest only grew. I caught on quickly to the programming design and thought process. During this same year is when I first joined robotics club and began to delve into RobotC. In these classes, I learned what I believe to be the basis of my interest in Computer Science, creating my own things from scratch. I continued through our Schools Computer Science program for the remaining two years and at the end of my Junior year, earned a 5 on the AP Computer Science Exam.

Apart from the Computer Science class, I was also a part of something called the GenYes program. At my High School, there is a career tech program for students grades 10-12 that was basically the IT department for the entire school. We would help students with their school laptops and take various Computer Science classes through Stark State. The company, GenYes, asks that each student log whenever they help a student/teacher, and after around 40 hours of experience, they give the student the chance to apply to become ‘GenYes Certified’, which is a way of saying that the company verifies that we are experienced enough to help people without needing to be supervised at all times. I applied to be certified, and after a video call with the CEO and other higher ups in the company, I was certified in the Fall of 2017. To my knowledge, I was the first High School Junior in Ohio to be certified and even earned the #1 spot in their ranking system for a few months during the same year.

Outside of School, I was involved in a multitude of clubs and sports, Including Varsity Academic Challenge, Varsity Lacrosse, and Rock Climbing in my free time. Rock Climbing was always my favorite of these three and continues to be a hobby and passion today. I’ve never been as good as other people in the gym, but the dynamic of working on a certain route for hours, maybe even days, before finally reaching that top rock, is one of, if not the, best feeling in the world. I believe it is this same problem solving and perseverance that fuels my passion for Engineering. It’s the same process of working, failing, and learning that I’ve come to love in Rock Climbing, and finally finishing a long project, or a long program, is the same exact feeling I get when finishing a climb.

I’m so happy to finally be here at THE Ohio State University! I was raised in a Buckeye family and coming here for school has been 18 years in the making and I hope the experience I have here will be just as life-changing as I’ve grown to believe.