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Cambridge, MA, US

At the Movement Control Rehabilitation (MOCORE) Lab, I am developing a game with the Unity engine, meant to assist in the rehabilitation of patients with Parkinson’s.

At the Technical Enrichment Outreach Program, I garnered first-hand experience in developing engineering skills and data collection. I assembled a plane model that would fly as far as possible, coded a mBot to complete a course efficiently, and developed soldering skills for electronic circuits and machinery.

New York City Metropolitan Area

At Columbia University, I calculated solubility of aldoxime metal complexes in organic solvents for metal recovery. Determined the effectiveness of dissolving metal complexes as an alternative to mining and analyzed chemical samples through a UV-Vis spectroscopy instrument’s output on a computer. This work was performed under the guidance of Dr. Moment and.

I was invited to form part of the Python Scholars - a program equivalent to Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Computer Programming I course. With this, I obtained additional techniques, methods, and applications for Python programming and collaborated with two students to create an employee lookup system, saved to JSON.

Union City, New Jersey, United States

At the Scientific Research Summer Institute, I Investigated whether per/poly-fluoroalkyl substances in water affected the health and growth of radishes. I examined the growth of a plant in a hydroponics lab over two weeks to observe developmental changes and investigated plant health through visual symptoms such as weathering or irregular shape.

I started in both the Fall 2021 and Summer 2022 semesters of the Real-World Connections Program on the Game Development track. Here, I gathered experience in programming and design in both Unreal Engine and Unity engines. I created simple interactive experiences with both game engines using Blueprints or C#.

With the Computing and security Enrichment Outreach Program, I reinforced concepts such as abstraction and programmed robots using Python programming language. Here, I programmed a GoPiGo robot to react to distance and to play chiptune which runs on a Raspberry Pi 3. I also developed concepts such as cybersecurity and web programming using PHP programming.

Union City, New Jersey, United States

Through the Summer Coding Program, I developed programming techniques and concepts using the Khan Academy platform which then allowed me to direct JavaScript classes using the Processing.JS library. I also garnered knowledge of HTML and CSS, and Document Object Model.