Cassie Sun is a senior at Marquette High School in St. Louis. In 2021, she developed a project researching decision-making in adolescents in relation to the prefrontal cortex as part of the AP Research Exam. She is currently enrolled in the third course of her school’s Authentic Scientific Research program and is researching the effects of Episodic Future Thinking on vaccination behavior at the Behavioral Economics Lab. In college, Cassie hopes to study behavioral and cognitive psychology as well as journalism.