now

oct - dec 2025

currently: applying to college

who knew this stuff was hard?

they said it would be but I thought they were lying

oct - nov 2025

working on my new website!

completely revamping my website (and finally learning real web dev). Astro is my way of putting off learning React and Next, but #weball.

lowkey webdev is fireuntil you try centering somethingI still don't understand ::after

nov 14-16 2025

hack club's parthenon in new york

spent the week in nyc running the largest hackathon for teenage girls in the world. 150 girls came from 14 different countries came. I learned swears in lots of languages. Mega cool.

we carried 17 gallons of dunkin donuts hot chocolate across times squarealso got to see the Folk Computer which was insane

jul - sep 2025

running daydream: a simultaneous hackathon in 100 cities

running global operations for daydream, a hackathon happening in 100 cities all around the world at the same time. Run by teenagers. What operations means is that basically I'm in charge of making sure every event actually happens. I've literally had 31912038 meetings in the past two months.

teenagers are so cool manmeghana learned airtable

aug 2025

visiting family in india

2 weeks in india with the family, so glad to be back. indian weddings are no joke.

I wish teleportation was real

jun - jul 2025

hack club internship in vermont

flew out to burlington to work at hack club and it was awesome. Dude meeting cool people is awesome. I ran the pathfinder and hermes programs

Jumped off a waterfall #ballingDidn't think there was a town smaller than Columbus

jul 11-14 2025

undercity @ GitHub HQ in SF

ran the hardware help bar at Undercity! And it was incredible. It was so awesome to meet people from all over who like the same stuff I do.

stayed awake for 23 hours straightthanks john cohn for keeping me sanegithub hq was so cool

apr - jun 2025

launching my HAB payload @ Apex in Boston

after spending 3 months struggling to make odyssey, I launched it! Our balloon went up about 100,000 feet then fell into a tree and was unrecoverable.

totally worth itinhaled a lot of burnt styrofoam fumes but we're #balling

may 1-4 2025

engine hotfire in the desert

got to see USC's Liquid Propulsion Lab hotfire their J&J engine out in the mojave and holy crap it was one of the coolest things I've ever experiences. I can't explain how insane it is to feel the explosion of a rocket engine in your ribs. Ashwin, thank you so much.

pretty much that's life completeddrove a jeep in the desert and just put me in a rally car already

april 19-20 2025

robot arm hackathon in NYC

built a guitar-playing robot arm in new york with some of the coolest 30 year olds ever. also got waterboarded in a chinatown street corner. shout out michael, omar, and sabrina

thanks sabrina michael and omar for being cooland thank you USC mind challenge for the frostbitepeople clapped.

april 2-5 2025

FRC smoky mountain regional

competed in the smoky mountain FRC regional in tennessee with my team and it was a lot of fun. Did we get red-carded for the first time in team history? yes. But it was a lot of fun.

my algae grabber came back hobbling after every matchthe red card wasn't even that much our fault

march 15-16 2025

scrapyard columbus!

organized the first teenage-run hackathon in columbus, and it was a lot of work. Like a lot. Thank you Cal, OHI/O, and priya rao for all the support.

home to uncr (tinder for uncs)hang orpheus (play hangman and get random files deleted off your computer)and much much more

march 1-2 2025

scrapyard flagship in austin

we made a trash can that makes fun of you when you use it (we crowdsourced insults from other people). the prompt of Most Useless Invention is the best hackathon prompt ever. thanks to jonathan and selena for being great teammates.

thank you sam poder for the insulti gotta find a use for the rp5 with 16 gigs of RAM

feb 8-9 2025

hacknyu 2025

we built a wearable to track tremors of parkinson's patients and I'm super happy with it, even if we didn't win. Met hack club goat karmanyaah.

it was freezing

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