“We had build days where the girls and I learned from different engineer mentors and worked on building and wiring our car,” Frenchy said. “I really liked that because in high school, I wasn’t given the opportunity to do it myself. It was crazy how much we could do with the tools and the motivation that we were given.”
While the connection from building race cars to going to med school may not be clear to many, Frenchy definitely sees how all STEM fields are interconnected.
“I feel like in STEM, in general, there’s always a connection. Prior to applying the medical school, I had to take physics, calculus, biology and chemistry. Although it sounds weird that there’s physics in medicine, it makes sense because of aerodynamics—how you move certain body parts,” Frenchy explained. “In a college class I had to learn about all of the engineering of electric circuit boards, and I was like, oh my gosh, I already did this in Icebox Derby!”