Los Angeles, California, United States
Coached a team of high school students in designing an innovative augmented reality guitar learning app, leading them to secure third place overall in a competitive program.
• Guided Product Development: Led the creation of an app that tracked musicians' finger placements on guitar chords, addressing both auditory and visual learning challenges in music education.
• Structured Coaching: Implemented sprint sessions with an empathetic coaching approach, holding real talk sessions, offering proactive encouragement, and celebrating achievements to meet students where they were and maximize their potential.
• Overcame Team Challenges: Successfully managed a reduced team size, motivating the remaining members to stay focused and achieve realistic goals despite the challenge.
• Enhanced Technical & Leadership Skills: Improved web development, UX/UI design, and computer vision skills while honing leadership abilities in communication, empathy, and maintaining realistic optimism.
• Positive Feedback & Recognition: Received commendation from the program head for professionalism, strong work ethic, punctuality, and resilience, as highlighted on my LinkedIn profile.
• Long-Term Impact: Introduced students to a self-paced, adaptive working environment, inspiring them to pursue education in STEM-related fields. Each student received additional recognition through smaller program prizes.