Sarah Niles

What color describes your personality?

Well, my favorite color is purple, but I think most people think sunshine-y yellow!

If you could live anywhere in the world for a year, where would it be?

Mars! Go hang out with the rovers for a bit, make red dirt angels, ya know, Mars stuff.

When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?

I always wanted to be an astronaut. That is how I ended up in Aerospace Engineering!

What’s a quote you choose to live by?

My favorite quote is from Paulo Coelho’s book The Alchemist. “At a certain point in our lives we lose control of what’s happening to us and our lives become controlled by fate, that’s the world’s greatest lie.” In the book, he tells the story of a boy who has to go on a grand adventure. Along the way he learns a lot of lessons about taking chances and pursuing his dreams. This is my favorite quote from the book because it helps me remember that I get to choose what kind of life I want to live.

What do you like to do in your spare time?

I love to go sailing on my little sunfish sailboat at Lake Cheney!

Why do you love SWE?

I love Society of Women Engineers because it gives me the chance to meet some of the hardest working women in Wichita!