“Boundless curiosity penetrates all barriers to progress.”
Welcome!
This page has my awards and scholarships, educational programs I’ve attended, organizations I lead, and other places you’d find me online (as well as some of my favorite quotes!). The rest of the website provides more in-depth information on my research projects and internships, as well as videos and presentations of my work in the past. I’ve also included my blacksmithing portfolio.
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Loomis Chaffee Scholars (2021): 4-6 students chosen from incoming applicants to Loomis Chaffee
Davidson Young Scholars: “A program for profoundly gifted young minds”
Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth - High Honors Distinction (for students who score approximately 4 grade levels above their current grade on the SAT/ACT)
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Stanford University ‘29 (Pursuing a B.S., likely in Chemical Engineering or Materials Science and Engineering)
The Garcia Scholars Program (Summer 2024)
Stanford Online High School - Part-Time Enrollment (8th Grade)
Johns Hopkins CTY - Fast-Paced High School Physics (Summer 2022)
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Bronze President's Volunteer Service Award
Senior year: Sellers Prize (awarded to the 4 seniors with the biggest impact on the school’s community); Math departmental award (1 of 5 seniors)
Junior year: Founders Prize (awarded to the 13 juniors with the biggest impact on the school’s community); Math departmental award (1 of 6 juniors); Science departmental award (1 of 6 students)
HOSA-Future Health Professionals: Medical Math Test; International Phase Qualifier (2nd in Connecticut)
Silver Key from Scholastic Art and Writing
Finalist at the Connecticut Science and Engineering Fair (top 20% of projects)
SIFMA Stock Market Game: 3rd in school, 13/1770 state-wide
MUN Awards: Outstanding Delegate at Yale (2x), BU, UConn, and Columbia MUN; Honorable Mention at NAIMUN
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Stanford
Affiliated Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (ASES) Freshman Bootcamp; 30 accepted from a pool of 500+ Stanford freshman
Freshman Service Liaison; elected from 107 members of my dorm
ChemE Car - Battery R&D Team
Matriculate Advising Fellow
Stanford Speakers Bureau (SSB)
Stanford Outdoor Outreach Program (SOOP)
Loomis Chaffee
Co-Founder and Co-President of the Entrepreneurship Club
Co-President of the Loomis Math Society
President of (and tutor for) Huishuo English Tutoring
Head Volunteer Tutor in the Quantitative Science and Resource Center
MUN: Head Delegate for the Model United Nations club; Advisor for Loomis’ Model United Nations Delegation; Secretariat for Loomis’ 2024 Model United Conference, Chair for the 2025 conference
Outreach Director for the Jewish Student Union
Board Member of the Financial Literacy Advisory Board
Student Manager of the Rubinstein Fund for Holocaust education
Resident Assistant in Taylor Hall
Student council representative for senior boarders
Assistant Coach for Boys Junior Varsity Soccer
Four-year Boys Varsity golfer
Eli Elsewhere
(Click on the images to read the articles)
An article published about me and another student winning the Caroline D. Bradley Scholarship.
See my bio on the Entrepreneurship Club’s brand new website.
An article on me by Loomis Chaffee’s communications team. Part of a series called Pelican Spotlight.
My presentations at the Materials Research Society conference in December 2024.
My presentation at the American Physical Society conference in March 2025.
Press releases about the Entrepreneurship Club:
An article about an event we recently hosted with Ben Sharf and increasing access to entrepreneurship.
An article written by Loomis Chaffee about the Entrepreneurship Club. Quote taken from the article.
Choice Quotes
Maurice Maeterlinck
“At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.”
William Moses Jr.
“Society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in.”
From Ted Lasso, attributed (incorrectly) to Walt Whitman
“Be curious, not judgemental.”
Saying
“To whom much is given, much is expected.”
Frederick Grinnell
“Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.”
Lao Tzu