PTYS undergraduate minor Adriana Mitchell has won a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship, which awards students who show exceptional promise of becoming leaders in their STEM field. The scholarship includes a $7,500 stipend which Adriana will use for summer 2018 travel to Japan to work with the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency in creating mission-vital image data products for the Hayabusa2 asteroid sample return mission. Working with Dr. Lucille Le Corre (Planetary Science Institute), Adriana will create tools for projecting 2D images of asteroid Ryugu on to 3D shape model. Adriana was previously a NASA Space Grant intern working with Vishnu Reddy on special characterization of asteroids. In August 2017, she tracked the solar eclipse as part of the Citizen CATE project. This year, Adriana will receive funds from the LPL Curson Travel endowment, which she will apply toward her summer research travel. Adriana will begin her senior year as a University of Arizona Optical Sciences major in the fall.