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ACHIEVEMENTS
The President's Volunteer Service Award
When COVID-19 hit, it threw everyone's lives into chaos. PVNET, a non-profit where kids and adults can work hand-on with all things STEM, lost its income stream right before the summer months when they rely on summer camps for revenue that helps sustain them for the remainder of the year. When this happened, Ted Vegvari, the owner of PVNET decided to use PVNET's 3D printing resources to turn PVNET into a face mask manufacturing facility, printing over 1000 masks every week.
Meanwhile, myself and other PVNET volunteers worked to create a brand new PVNET socially distanced learning space so that the summer camps could run and the kids could be safe and not spread the virus. For this work I received the President's Volunteer Service Award. I will continue to volunteer my time to PVNET because it an amazing place where the next generation of engineers are being inspired to learn and to build.
New Venture Challenge 12 Social Impact Night
When I moved to CU Boulder in the spring of 2020, I joined EmergenTek, the startup company dedicated to saving lives during fire emergencies. To get funding, EmergenTek competed in the New Venture Challenge. On March 3rd, 2020, I pitched our product and vision at the New Venture Challenge 12 Social Impact Night, winning third place and a check worth $1000 for EmergenTek. (Above is an amateur video of my pitch)
Arduino Certification Bootcamp
When I started at PVNET in the Fall of 2019, I took on the challenge of both learning and developing a course for certification in the Arduino microcontroller environment. I developed a full curriculum and taught a class of 7 students about Arduino programming, circuitry, sensors and actuators, and electricity. The course met once per week for 3 hours and lasted 8 weeks, after which 5 out of the 7 students passed their exams and became officially certified through the Arduino Fundamentals Certification Test.
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In addition to this class, I have also taught CAD design in Tinkercad and Fusion360, taught a remote Arduino programming class, and taught PVNET's STEM University which introduces concepts in STEM to kids ages 7-12.