In high school, my brother and I decided to build our own remote control airplane. We struggled through many iterations but eventually the plane flew;  we were hooked. Since then, we have built two additional models, including a 3D printed plane.

Perhaps it was preordained  -- we are "the Wright Brothers"!

I'm obsessed with skiing. After my Dad grew tired of paying for pricey indoor ski tickets at a nearby mall, I decided to build a DIY Snowmaker. Using compressed air and a pressure washer, I built a  contraption that mimics the snowmakers at ski resorts (machines which cost thousands of dollars).

Recently, there was a bridge building competition in my high school engineering class.
My bridge held 285 pounds, shattering the school record! The bridge held so much weight that the mechanism holding the weight to test the bridge broke, indicating that my bridge could likely have held even more weight.

When the COVID pandemic began, I was unable to go in-person to robotics, so the only way for me to prepare for competition was to CAD (computer-aided design). I initially used my school computer, but with multiple crashes and sluggish frames per second, I knew it was time for an upgrade! I mapped out the components on a website called PC builder before ordering and assembling the parts.