Name: Katie VanderKam Education: First Year PhD Student Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Hometown: Princeton, NJ Dance Background: Katie started dancing locally at The Dance Factory at the age of 3, and have studied ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary, modern, lyrical and hip hop. As an undergraduate I continued taking ballet classes and was a member of multiple extracurricular dance groups: Momentum Dance Company, Duke Swing, and Duke On Tap. Favorite Ballet: A Midsummer Night's Dream