The junior tennis player is recognized for her second Fleur-de-lis Award as an athlete at St. Catherine and her first for scholarship. Wiedmeier was recently selected to represent St. Kate’s at the American Physical Society Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP). The conference is a three-day event in January held at Northwestern University in Chicago. The goal of APS CUWiP is to help undergraduate women continue in physics by providing them with the opportunity to experience a professional conference, information about graduate school and professions in physics, and access to other women in physics of all ages with whom they can share experiences, advice, and ideas.
 In addition to being selected to attend CUWiP, Wiedmeier was awarded the NASA Minnesota Space Grant through The Minnesota Space Grant Consortium (MnSGC) is part of the NASA-funded National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program (usually just called Space Grant) established by Congress in 1988. Nationally, Space Grant is a network of 52 university-based statewide consortia, including all 50 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, with nearly 1000 mostly-higher-education affiliate institutions delivering programming nationwide. Space Grant provides support for higher education students majoring in STEM fields, NASA-themed higher education offerings plus research opportunities for faculty and students, NASA-themed professional development for pre-college in-service and pre-service teachers, and informal education activities related to aerospace science.
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