I'm a high school senior from

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April 13, 2025

Back to Palo Alto for K-Scale Labs

Headed back to visit Palo Alto—learning about robotics, fundraising and reinforcement learning from designers, researchers, and engineers at K-Scale Labs! Will contract back in Canada!

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March 15, 2025

Organized Scrapyard Vancouver

My team at the British Columbia Youth Developer Collective brought together 85+ students from around British Columbia to work on cool scrappy projects—and we also broke our previous record for British Columbia's largest youth hackathon!

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March 3, 2025

Organized Hack Club Scrapyard Flagship in Austin, TX

We raised C$200,000 and flew in 100 students from around the world to build the scrappiest projects in Austin, TX. In two weeks, on March 15-16, we're running 60+ satellite hackathons in cities around the world! See scrapyard.hackclub.com

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February 25, 2025

Visited K-Scale Labs (YC24) in Palo Alto, CA

Spent the week learning at an opensource humanoid robotics startup! Will contract back in Canada!

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November 16, 2024

Won 1st place at UBC's Ascend Business Case Competition

Worked with classmates to place 1st in the Novice Category at the Ascend Business Case Competition at UBC Sauder, competing against 150 high school students in developing an international expansion plan for Lotte Yukimi Daifuku.

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September 30, 2024

Organized yvrHacks—British Columbia's biggest youth hackathon

Led the British Columbia Youth Collective to organize the biggest youth hackathon in British Columbia: 60+ students, $4000+ prizes and 500+ hours of collective hacking! See yvrhacks.ca

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September 15, 2024

Attended Hack the North at the University of Waterloo!

Spent the weekend building Sign Engine, a modular sign language processing API to enable real-time sign language translation, which I used to build a Chrome extension for live ASL interpretation of YouTube videos and a website that reads lips and translates into ASL

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July 24, 2024

Spent a week on a train hackathon across Canada

Spent the weekend with 50 other high school students from around the world onboard the Hack Club Boreal Express, a 7-day hackathon onboard a train across Canada! We were hit by the Jasper wildfires so we couldn't make it to Montreal, but we toured the Linus Tech Tips office and had a great time in Vancouver!

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May 25, 2024

Published my work on Sign Language Processing

Gave a talk about my sign language work (An Open-Source American Sign Language Fingerspell Recognition and Semantic Pose Retrieval Interface) to my classmates at Burnaby South, as well as UBC's SLPAA research team. Presented and shared my work through my demo YouTube video, and published my preprint on Cornell University's arXiv!

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February 11, 2024

Attended the Hack Club Leaders' Summit in San Francisco

Spent the weekend with 50 other high school students from around the world at the first ever Hack Club Leaders' Summit in San Francisco! Iterated on cool projects to bring back to our local program clubs, met other leaders from around the world, and discussed the future with Tom Preston-Werner, the Founder of GitHub!

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January 20, 2024

Won nwHacks 2024—my first in-person hackathon

Attended nwHacks—Western Canada's biggest university-level hackathon (around 800 hackers)! I built NutriSnap—a computer vision React Native application that uses your phone camera to scan UPC codes or take photos of your food to track your nutrition.

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July 28, 2023

Spent a month at Shad Western University

Selected for Shad at Western University—where I spent a month with 80 other students from across Canada experiencing post-secondary life through lectures, workshops, and a month-long design project.

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February 25, 2023

Placed 6th at Math Challengers

Placed 6th individually at Math Challengers @ UBC, a math competition for high school students across British Columbia! Also placed 3rd as a team—qualifying for team provincials.

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