LAURA SMARRITO

I bought my first table saw when I was 16, learned the ropes, and have emerged some years later covered in sawdust, with a few more tools and as many fingers as I started.

I studied Engineering at the Community College of Philadelphia before earning my Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University.

I've had the great fortune of working in the Carpentry Shop at McMurdo Station in Antarctica and look forward to spending the summer season at the Carpentry Shop at Summit Station in Greenland.

My interests include getting overly excited by 1990's Toyota Hilux pick up trucks, the New Jersey Pine Barrens, motorcycles, and piñatas.