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Portrait of Jaylon Palmer

Honor Society® member

Jaylon Palmer

car washer at Midlothian Car Wash

  • mechanical engineering
  • Class of 2025
  • Cedar Hill, Texas

Member since November 2021

About

I am an African American student attending Texas A&M University at College Station. I attended Midlothian High School, where I learned multiple values of life playing Varsity football, and finished in high academic standings, a 3.98 GPA and top 10% of my class. I'm currently completing my last year of college and am part of the TAMU SAE AERO team. In this group we build planes for competition in the worldwide SAE event.

Education

  • Texas A&M University at College Station

    mechanical engineering

    2021 – 2025

Honors and awards

  • academic achievement award

    The Academic All-District award: Awarded for my academic excellence while playing varsity football.

  • national honor society

    I was inducted into NHS my junior year of high school, and performed multiple community service activities with them.

  • certificate of achievement

    Certificate of Excellence: Awarded because of my phenomenal work ethic and academic standing.

  • certificate of achievement

    Certificate for being an African American Scholar

  • 1st place overall at SAE AERO design West Competition

    SAE AERO design is a worldwide competition where schools/engineering groups compete to build the best airplane to meet given design considerations. My team won 1st overall at the 2024 Design competition Micro Division.

Goals and interests

Career goal

I plan to be successful in the Mechanical and/or aerospace field.

Graduate school interests

Currently no plans

Outside the classroom

- Football
- Volleyball
- Ice Skating
- Drawing/ Other forms of Art
- Weightlifting

Experience

  • car washer

    Midlothian Car Wash

    Jun 2019 – Aug 2019

Languages

  • English (US) Advanced

Additional information