Started VEX Robotics in middle school
First competition robot team. I have been on a robotics team every year since.
Timeline
2021 to 2027
Robotics, school, work and side projects in the order they happened. The last few are still ahead of me.
2021
2022
VEX World Championship with my middle school team
Led the team to Worlds for the first time. year to confirm, plus placing
2023
VEX World Championship again
Second trip to Worlds with the middle school team. year to confirm, plus placing
Started Engineering Technology at Tri-County
Joined the Engineering Technology program at Tri-County Regional Vocational Technical High School in Franklin. CAD, drawings, shop work, and a lot of measuring.
2024
Autodesk Certified User: AutoCAD
Passed the Certiport AutoCAD exam on February 29.
Started volunteering with FreeKicks Special Olympics
Teaching and playing soccer with kids of all abilities in Franklin. Still going.
2025
NC3 Introduction to Mechatronics
Festo-backed cert covering electro-pneumatics, PLCs, sequence programs and automated systems.
Started at Shaw's
Cashier and customer service in Medway. Trained for more responsibility soon after I was hired.
Captain of VEX team 3236A
Push Back season, team of 8. I led design, wrote the C++ with EZ-Template, and ran competition strategy.
Joined HexaFlow, our NASA HUNCH team
Five students designing a nanolab that waters a plant in microgravity using capillary action. I took the web lead role.
NC3 Precision Measurement 1: Tape and Rule
Starrett-backed measurement cert.
2026
Forex signal research
Built a chart scanner for short-term binary calls, then backtested it honestly. Out of sample it won 46% of the time against 55.6% needed. Pivoted to a research and journal tool.
NC3 Precision Measurement 2: Slide Caliper
Second Starrett measurement cert.
Pokémon card scanner, phases 0 to 1c
Catalog of 20,444 cards, CLIP plus FAISS recognition, a phone scanning app, and a detection rewrite that took real-scan coverage from 31% to 61% with zero regressions.
Built the HexaFlow website
Web lead for our NASA HUNCH team. Astro and Three.js, with an interactive 3D assembly viewer.
NASA drop test for HexaFlow
2.21 seconds of free fall to see how water moves through the grooved dome without gravity.
Relaunching the Tri-County FRC team
Started from nothing with two other student leaders: no robot, no budget. Cold-emailed local companies for sponsors and built a warm-up basketball shooter.
Jarvis stages 0 and 1A deployed
My home operating system, built for six Raspberry Pi 5s with the kiosk Pi live first: wall kiosk, phone app, daily plan. In daily use since October.
Co-op at Dell
Process Development team at Dell's Franklin factory, alternating weeks with school.
Presenting HexaFlow at ASGSR
The American Society for Gravitational and Space Research conference.
2027
FRC rookie season
First season for the relaunched team. The game is BIOCORE.
Graduating from Tri-County
Class of 2027, Engineering Technology.