I build things, and I fix the ones that break.

A nonprofit cultural incubator for art, music and science in North County San Diego. I have been showing people around since I was five, and still help out.

The big STEM/maker fair. Went 2023, 2024 and 2026; spend most of it talking to builders about how they actually made the thing.

Took a robot we built for fun to a real competition. Won our first fight, then blew a motor controller and rebuilt it between matches.

A small invitation-only camp in the Bay Area for teenage builders, run by the 1517 Fund. Visits to early-stage science and hardware companies, and workshops the campers themselves teach.

Watched a night-time rocket launch carrying brain organoids up to the International Space Station.

Fourth year working the booth for San Diego artist Dave "PERSUE" Ross. Setup, teardown, crowd, sales.

A summer of university-level engineering coursework.

Self-taught sound engineering. Specced, wired, tuned and installed it. It is still in there.

Three-month entrepreneurship program. Took 3rd place with my own invention and business plan.

Volunteered and worked conventions with PERSUE — 2021, 2022, 2023.

Flew to London and Oxford, then ran the VR setup that placed Sir Roger Penrose into a virtual space during a live event in San Francisco.

Been going since I was young. Volunteered, sat in on neuroscience and philosophy lectures, and interviewed Dr. V.S. Ramachandran.

Kept the lab running for several years — machines, inventory, and unsticking students and teachers when the technology fought back.

Our team was the only one in the school’s history to advance to the next round of competition.