It is difficult to convey just how excited I am about engineering and building things so I am just going to show off some pictures of my childhood projects and allow them to speak for themselves. Many photos are yet to be found unfortunately, so these are just a few.
Age 4: Playing with Toy Screws
Age 7: Legos and the Rubber Band Belt Drive
Age 10: Lego Line Follower
At the Hawaii State Championship!
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Which I won!!
Age 9-11: More stuff I built with Legos
I attempted a really cool Rubix Cube solver too but cant find any pictures of it
Age 12: FIRST Lego League
I got my 5th grade teacher (she was the best) to attend a summer robot camp with me. She became my 6th grade teacher and we founded a robotics team that went on to win our island championship!
Age 14: High School
VEX Robotics
Enter high school. This was a crazy time in my life with way too much going on and not enough picture taking.
Freshman Year: Captain of freshman team
Sophomore Year: Captain of all of VEX
(included 4 competition robots)
Junior Year: Captain of all of VEX
(included 5 competition robots)
Senior Year: Captain of all of VEX
(included 5 competition robots)
Captain of all of VEX meant that I personally directed design and construction of multiple robots and also coordinated strategy and resources for one or two independent teams.
We qualified for worlds every year! Wooo!
Age 14: FIRST Robotics Competition
My robotics team also did FRC. As a freshman I was put in charge of building the shooting mechanism. Sophomore year onward, I was the engineering captain.
Captain of FRC meant coordinating subsystem leaders, defining design constraints and subsystem synergy, and orchestrating construction.
I was also a member of the presentation squad.
Age 17: MoonRIDERS
Engineering captain and project manager for my school's involvement in the joint NASA, PISCES, and GLXP effort to perform a test of the Electrodynamic Dust Shield on the moon.
My role on the team was orchestrating the design and construction of a life-size mock moon lander to use as a testing platform for observing the effectiveness of various placements of the EDS in collecting dust during landing. I was also a primary speaker at media and press conferences.