Since graduating from Sachem East in 2014, Dan Christiansen has been pretty busy.
And that’s saying a lot since he was always running around during high school, competing with the robotics team, earning Eagle Scout honors and graduating as one of the most well-rounded students in his class.
Now, in the midst of finishing his junior year at Tulane University in New Orleans majoring in chemical engineering, he just locked up a 10-week paid internship at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
Last Summer he interned for 10-weeks at Brookhaven National Labs, developing, programming and product testing in the field, a low-cost device to record solar energy levels on panels, and have it report back to a central system.
Christiansen, the inaugural Regent of the Theta Tau Colony at Tulane – he founded it at TU in April 2016 – is also chairing the organization’s regional conference, which will take place on campus in early 2018. He is working hard to make their colony into an official chapter before he graduates in May 2018.
He continues to volunteer, with his fraternity, with Habitat for Humanity in the Seventh and Ninth Wards of New Orleans, two areas that suffered the most damage during Hurricane Katrina.
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-Words by Chris R. Vaccaro