Gavin Southwell is a 2023 WYSE alumni and a senior at East Chapel Hill High School. He plans on majoring in conservation biology in college. In his free time he plays soccer, volunteers at the Piedmont Wildlife Center, and helps organize teen science cafes as a member on the teen advisory board at Morehead Planetarium. Gavin’s most memorable experience from WYSE was seeing the Cheetahs being rehabilitated at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.