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This page is dedicated to talking more about how I got into programming and possibly provide resources to others who may want to explore computer science or AI (such as Hack Club, CS50, etc.)!
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Elementary-middle school
Independently explored free online programming courses, especially those from codecademy and freecodecamp
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6th-8th grade (2020-2023)
Joined my school's VEX robotics team as a programmer
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8th grade (2022)
First official programming course, a largely self-paced semester-long elective teaching Javascript and Python through CodeHS
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9th grade-current (2023-current)
FRC robotics team 2415, coding subteam
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10th grade first semester (2024)
Took CS50 independently throughout first semester and with a concentrated effort during winter break. As my first structured and completed introduction to programming, this course taught me how to think algorithmically.
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10th grade second semester (2025)
Joined Hack Club, participated in High Seas and created my first GitHub projects
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11th grade summer (2025)
• Coded 4 projects for 60 hours total to qualify for Hack Club's Shipwrecked hackathon (attended in early August) • Interned at IPMD Inc. using prompt engineering to customize chatbot responses based on emotional analysis • Completed a 2-week virtual Stanford Pre-Collegiate Institutes "Intro to AI" course where I created a model to identify FRC game piece objects
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11th grade first semester (2025)
• Organized Daydream Atlanta • Tutored python + pygame and intro to web development through Schoolhouse.world • Attended Hack Club's Parthenon hackathon for underrepresented genders in NYC • Joined Hack Club's Special Activities Division to organize community events in the Slack • Community project reviewer for the Athena Awards • Glenn Institute Civic ambassador for robotics • Wrote an article for school's STEM newspaper on the impacts of AI on software engineering careers
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Current/upcoming pursuits
• Organizing a 2026 spring Athena/Days of Service event through Hack Club (an event for underrepresented genders in tech) • RSVPed to organize another game jam (Campfire) • Interning for the Judicial Council of Georgia/Administrative Office of the Courts application development team for 2 weeks during Janterm • Launching my school's first CS peer tutoring program as coding club lead • Competing in technovation girls with "Lovelace coders" team, working with Living Dictionaries to design an application for endangered language learning