02 — Access · Leadership · Impact
I hold myself to a high standard and work relentlessly to leave every project and community better than I found it. But individual achievement has a ceiling: my greatest impact comes not only from what I accomplish myself, but from giving other people the access, confidence, and opportunities to create change of their own. Service, to me, is how personal effort becomes multiplied progress.
415
Tracked volunteer hours · Summer 2024–2026
$24K+
Raised for STEM programs
5,000+
People reached in person
10+
Recurring outreach events organized
Why access matters
STEM gave me a place to express technical creativity, build confidence, and imagine a future in which I could make a meaningful contribution. As artificial intelligence and other technologies reshape the world, I believe every young person deserves an inviting way into the programs that will help shape it.
The largest barrier is often not ability, but visibility: students may see STEM as only coding or math instead of teamwork, design, experimentation, and invention. I try to make the first step fun and attainable—then meet each learner where they are, so curiosity has room to become commitment.
Advocacy
From young students to public officials and business leaders, I have learned that clear, energetic communication can turn awareness into concrete support.
Federal advocacy · 2025 01 / Public policy
After I introduced Representative Maggie Goodlander to FIRST and its impact, she became a cosponsor of H.Res.147, an introduced House resolution supporting a National FIRST Robotics Day.
View the official resolution
02 / Statewide recognition
I worked directly with Governor Kelly Ayotte’s office to help draft and secure proclamations recognizing April as FIRST Robotics Awareness Month in New Hampshire in both 2025 and 2026. The proclamations also prompted local newspaper coverage reaching more than 80,000 people.
03 / Media advocacy
Through interviews with WMUR and 7News Boston, I advocated directly for FIRST and helped introduce its opportunities to television audiences across New Hampshire and New England.
04 / Industry engagement
When I met Symbotic founder and CEO Rick Cohen, I connected FIRST participation to the creative and technical skills needed in the future workforce. A conversation became hands-on engagement with our robot—and another advocate ready to share the program’s value.
Mentorship
Across two seasons and more than 100 hours, I have worked with 45 students on three FTC teams at Hollis-Brookline Middle School, supported two teams at Greenland Middle School, and provided virtual guidance to teams in Vietnam, Texas, and Massachusetts.
I also conceived and organized Tesseract Talks, a three-episode educational series sharing mechanical-design knowledge with thousands of viewers. Whether support happens beside a workbench or across a video call, the goal is the same: make expertise feel reachable.
personally secured for STEM programs
Fundraising
I have led corporate outreach and relationship-based campaigns that secured approximately $14,000 for Team Tesseract, including more than $9,000 in the most recent season. That support directly funds robot components, competition registration, team apparel, banners, and the infrastructure that lets students participate fully.
Combined with more than $10,000 raised for the Elementary Science Fair, this work has taught me to connect a partner’s priorities with a concrete community outcome—and then follow through responsibly on the opportunity their support creates.
A program rebuilt
After the pandemic ended a tradition I had loved as an elementary student, I contacted the Hollis Elementary PTA and offered to bring it back.
I select each year’s theme, secure sponsorships, manage registration and communications, coordinate volunteers and demonstrations, oversee logistics, and serve as master of ceremonies. Themes have ranged from Chain Reactions and Magnetism to MythBusters and the Environment.
Each fair brings together 60–90 student presenters and hundreds of family and community visitors. Sponsorships cover event expenses and help schools acquire resources including model rockets, Osmo coding tools, LEGO Education kits, a weather station, and drone kits.
Designed to last I am documenting the complete process so the fair can eventually pass to another student organizer—and offer them the same kind of leadership opportunity it gave me.
Community outreach
I bring competition robots, smaller robots I have built, hands-on activities, original programming games, and practical FIRST resources into public spaces. A memorable first experience gives people a reason to explore everything underneath it.
Organized by me
Supported as a volunteer
Many programs recur annually, allowing a single event to become a sustained community partnership.
Merrimack & Hollis · 2023–2025 Camp Invention
For three summers, I helped groups of 20–30 students in grades 1–6 move through full weeks of ambitious STEM challenges. I coordinated daily transitions, guided complex builds, managed conflicts, and kept each group moving toward a shared goal without losing the fun that made them want to participate.
Beyond STEM
Learning is difficult when a student is hungry. Living near farms with excess fresh food also makes the opportunity to help especially immediate, so I regularly pack weekend food bags for End 68 Hours of Hunger Nashua and deliver gleaned produce to senior housing and local nonprofits.
When SNAP benefits were delayed in 2025, I added a food drive to the Science Fair and coordinated its delivery to the Brookline Food Pantry. This work has taught me that service is more than completing a task: it is compassion practiced alongside people who make giving back joyful and sustaining.
What comes next
“My impact should not end with what I can contribute alone. It grows when I help other people gain the access and confidence to contribute at their best, too.”
Over the next two years, I plan to expand these partnerships, bring more funding to the programs I support, and create thoughtful handoff plans so the initiatives I lead can continue when I leave for college.