Leadership
Almost everything I have built needed a team, and most of those teams needed someone to organize them.
Background
I was first elected to a student role in 2022. Since then I have run an engineering society, served two terms as a district student mayor, led a subteam on a university aircraft team, and started a company.
Teaching Assistant, Georgia Tech Startup Lab (2026-Present)
Since August 2026 I have been a teaching assistant for Startup Lab (COE 2701), Georgia Tech’s course on starting a company, while building AdaptaPlay through CREATE-X Startup Launch.
Materials Lead & Pilot, Georgia Tech Design Build Fly Micro (2025-Present)
I lead materials selection and composites manufacturing and fly the competition aircraft. The composite landing gear I developed weighs half as much as the previous optimized design, and the team placed 2nd overall at SAE Aero Design East 2026. More on the project page.
Member of Georgia Tech Global Leadership Living Community & Culture/Festivities Student Action Team (2025-Present)
In a team of four, I created and pitched an NIH-style grant proposal for a low-cost, portable fentanyl-testing tool, designing its poster and SolidWorks model. With the student action team, we planned and hosted community-building events for Hispanic Heritage Month, Halloween, winter and others.
Poster for the portable, low-cost fentanyl testing kit developed in the LLC.
A 3D model of the portable fentanyl testing kit created (SolidWorks).
Poster for the student action team’s first event of the year.
Student Mayor of Budapest III. District (2023-2025)
As Student Mayor of the district, I collaborated with peers and NGOs to organize events including a district-wide food drive, toy drive, youth sports tournament, and youth concert. I was elected twice and helped manage the student mayorship’s budget.
Photo taken after holding a presentation for foreign exchange students about our district in the Mayor’s office.
The student mayorship team at our winter food-drive for the homeless.
MCing for the Budapest III. District Mayorship’s yearly student musical performances.
President of Milestone Institute Engineering Society (2023-2025)
In this position I hosted weekly sessions, recruitment events, in-house competitions, social events, and tripled student membership over two terms as president. I focused on teaching members CAD, electronics and programming, across 60+ hours of sessions, and received the Golden Laika Award for leadership in 2024. Our projects included building mini BattleBots, drones, 3D-printed bridges, and a wall-mounted marble machine for the student life lounge.
Teaching members to solder on the electronics for the mini-battlebots.
Assembling TinyWhoop drones.
Hosting an outreach event as the Engineering Society for potential applicants to Milestone. Participants made spaghetti bridges, which we strength tested on our self-built BridgeBreaker machine.
Participating at Student Life Week with the Engineering Society.
Example poster I made to advertise our upcoming sessions on using Raspberry Pis.
Hosting a youth outreach event for Milestone.
Student Year Representative at Milestone Institute (2022-2025)
Hosted community events and represented my year group to staff. Elected for three consecutive terms.
Campaign speech at year opening ceremony for 2024 Milestone Senior Year Representative position.
