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ORNL Director Thomas Zacharia, left, congratulates UT-Battelle Scholarship recipient Tyler Duckworth and his father, Robert. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy
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Tyler Duckworth, left, poses with his father, Robert Duckworth, in front of the Summit supercomputer. Tyler Duckworth has been named recipient of the 2021 UT-Battelle Scholarship to attend the University of Tennessee. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy
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Tyler Duckworth has been named recipient of the 2021 UT-Battelle Scholarship to attend the University of Tennessee. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy
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ORNL Director Thomas Zacharia, left, congratulates UT-Battelle Scholarship recipient Tyler Duckworth and his father, Robert. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy
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Tyler Duckworth, left, poses with his father, Robert Duckworth, in front of the Summit supercomputer. Tyler Duckworth has been named recipient of the 2021 UT-Battelle Scholarship to attend the University of Tennessee. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy
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Tyler Duckworth has been named recipient of the 2021 UT-Battelle Scholarship to attend the University of Tennessee. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy
L&N STEM Academy senior Tyler Duckworth has been named recipient of the 2021 UT-Battelle Scholarship to attend the University of Tennessee.
The competitive scholarship is awarded annually to a graduating senior planning to study science, mathematics or engineering at UT and who has a parent employed by UT-Battelle, managing contractor of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The scholarship is renewable for up to four years and is worth a total of $20,000.
Duckworth is the son of Robert and Jamie Duckworth of Knoxville. Robert works in ORNL's Fusion Energy Division.
Duckworth’s high school achievements include serving as team captain of the L&N STEMpunks Robotics Team and participating on the team since 2016. He has also taught fellow students about computer science and how to program robots using Java and Python.
From 2017 to 2018, Duckworth assisted in the planning of the Simple Summit demonstration unit, a result of a collaboration between a team from the L&N STEM Academy and the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. Simple Summit demonstrates the power of parallel computing. He helped design custom pieces the unit needed to function.
Duckworth's experience with STEM — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — curricula has inspired his academic and career ambitions.
"I plan to use my career in computer science to help expand the role that technology plays in community schools by making available low-cost options of reading, providing opportunities to learn about STEM through community outreach, and creating a platform to synthesize information on many topics into streamlined pathways," he wrote in his application essay.
UT-Battelle manages ORNL for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. The Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit energy.gov/science.
