01 Awards & honors
Recognition, by year
Science and engineering competitions, robotics, business, and writing. Each entry includes one line of context so the title isn't doing all the work.
Statewide recognition for my disaster-response robotics research, after advancing from the regional fair. MSEF is the state-level science and engineering fair for Massachusetts high school students.
Reached the finals at DECA's international competition, which draws competitors from across the United States and several other countries after qualifying rounds at the district and state level.
Autonomous maze-solving robot competition hosted at MIT, judged on how quickly a robot can explore an unknown maze and then run the fastest route it has found.
International youth spoken-word poetry festival and competition. I competed as part of the Massachusetts team.
Outstanding Award in the student poster competition at the 2025 Global Green Development Summit, held at Stanford University, for the Rescue Reach UAV sensor-fusion research.
Statewide youth poetry slam run by Mass Poetry.
Regional placement that advanced to the state and international levels.
Selected among the Top 300 students nationally in the Society for Science research competition, for the early work that became Rescue Reach.
National medal in the country's longest-running recognition program for creative teenagers, judged across regional and national rounds.
First place at the regional fair, qualifying for the state competition.
Top individual award in committee, based on research, negotiation, and public speaking.
Team placement across engineering, laboratory, and study events.
Regional placement in business case competition.
Gold medal in competitive problem solving.
Recognition from IEEE for an early engineering concept — the first time my work was evaluated by practicing engineers, and the reason I kept going.
The work behind the list
Most of these come from one long-running project. The case study explains what it actually is.