# Rachel Seevers

> Rachel Seevers is a Strategy Associate in the Office of the CEO at The Nuclear Company, America's nuclear infrastructure platform. A Lexington, Kentucky native, she made her name as a teenage inventor - winning the $50,000 Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award in 2019 for a jellyfish-inspired underwater propulsion device that improved efficiency by up to 37 percent, after earlier building the patent-pending 'Virtual Winglet' aircraft wing over 7,000 hours of work. She studied mechanical engineering and education at Harvard, cut her professional teeth as a Deloitte analyst, and founded STEM programs to bring girls and underserved kids into science. Now she brings that biomimic's eye for efficiency to the hard problem of building nuclear fleets on time and on budget.

- **Role:** Strategy Associate, Office of the CEO at The Nuclear Company
- **Organizations:** The Nuclear Company, Deloitte, Harvard University, STEMfems
- **From:** Lexington, Kentucky, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** High school diploma, Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, Lexington, KY, Summer research program, Research Science Institute (RSI) at MIT, Center for Excellence in Education, Mechanical engineering and education, Harvard University
- **Known for:** $50,000 Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award, Intel ISEF 2019, for a jellyfish-inspired underwater propulsion device (up to 37% efficiency gain), Invented the patent-pending 'Virtual Winglet' aircraft wing design improving lift-to-drag efficiency by an average of 21.6%, over 7,000+ hours of work, Regeneron Science Talent Search Finalist, 8th place

## Career timeline

- **2015** — Competes at ISEF as a middle school regional winner; first exposure that would shape her path
- **2017-2019** — District Overall High School Winner and Regional Best of Fair three years running with aeronautical engineering research
- **2019** — Wins the $50,000 Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award at Intel ISEF for a jellyfish-inspired underwater propulsion device
- **2019** — Regeneron Science Talent Search Finalist (8th place) and Glenn T. Seaborg Award recipient; named a Creativity Foundation Legacy Prize winner
- **2019** — Enrolls at Harvard to study mechanical engineering and education
- **2023** — Joins Deloitte as an analyst
- **2024** — Becomes Strategy Associate in the Office of the CEO at The Nuclear Company

## Achievements

- $50,000 Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award, Intel ISEF 2019, for a jellyfish-inspired underwater propulsion device (up to 37% efficiency gain)
- Invented the patent-pending 'Virtual Winglet' aircraft wing design improving lift-to-drag efficiency by an average of 21.6%, over 7,000+ hours of work
- Regeneron Science Talent Search Finalist, 8th place
- Glenn T. Seaborg Award - voted by fellow finalists as the person who best inspires others with a zeal for science
- Third Place in Engineering Mechanics at the International Science and Engineering Fair
- Awards from NASA, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy and the Society of Experimental Test Pilots
- Creativity Foundation 2019 Legacy Prize winner
- Cofounded a girls STEM club and created STEMfems, delivering STEM workshops to underprivileged elementary schools

## Latest updates

- **2024** — Serving as Strategy Associate in the Office of the CEO at The Nuclear Company, which raised a $51.3M Series A (about $71M total) to build America's integrated nuclear deployment platform.

## Links

- Website: https://www.thenuclearcompany.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-seevers-a5a669140/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/rachel_seevers
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMdPRuJseZY

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Last updated: 2026-07-01