Responsible for all things Web at TAP

Lead developer for a EdTech platform called Cinch which allows HS students to discover extracurricular activities to be more holistic applicants in the growing competitive landscape of college admissions. Students can search through a hand curated database of opportunities to find internships, summer programs, community service opportunities, research experiences, and more. Piloted with 7 HS nationwide (pre-covid) and provided over 5K student accounts.

Live at https://connectwithcinch.com

My role within the student technology group was to design a series of Technology workshops, demonstrations, and informational sessions for Current Undergraduate and Graduate Stanford Students. The goal of the program was to provide a pressure free academic setting devoid of grades or any rigid system such as a normal university course in order to allow students to learn new skills from differing backgrounds. The program was a 2 month long pilot (excluding planning) in which we ran 4 workshops and created an additional 2. The topics ranged from virtual reality and simple circuits to podcasting and 3D printing. We had a structure for these free summer courses; initiate a short period to introduce new content and follow up with an interactive build session or demonstration. We had on average of around ~110 sign up through our form while only being able to accept around 20. I taught the courses myself, designed the presentations, and had help with demonstration setup from my managers. We had to cut two workshops short because our Virtual Reality workshop was so well received that we had to run 4 sessions per day for 2 days straight with an expanded enrollment of 40 per session. We collected data from the pilot program and were able to present the findings to the university; as a result, the university has built a virtual reality development center in Lathrop Library as well as published an article about the work our group completed within our faculty and staff newsletter (it's focused on providing material for professors to improve their teaching methods).

Developed a network of connected devices from ideation to manufactured finished product while developing insights into the process of designing for IoT systems of today. The first project was a smart lamp designed by a fellow intern where it was 3D printed, sanded, painted, and finished with a grey matte coating. The scope of the project was to design and build a smart lamp connected to a virtual game engine which mirrors the state of its physical representation and vice versa. My responsibilities were to design a circuit that would handle our capacitive touch buttons, lighting, installing an ambient light sensor, and selecting a cpu and wifi board. I wrote all the code for the program as well as circuit design/prototyping/and debugging. Finally, I wrote and published an instructable on the project (excluding sections on 3D printing/modeling/and finishing) as well as created the EagleCAD schematics for the circuits. Link for Instructable: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Build-a-Smart-Lamp/