About Me
I have long had a passion for both engineering and education, and I have a desire to improve engineering education in our country to make a better future for all. This necessitates expertise in both fields, which I have sought to achieve through my educational and career choices.
My passion for education largely began because of my parents, who have been in education as long as I can remember, and instilled the great importance of understanding how the world works so that we can live the best life possible. I learned a great deal during my time in school, but I also began teaching others myself - starting to learn how to effectively communicate complex ideas that people haven't heard before. Though this was initially a struggle for me, years of tutoring, teaching summer camps, coaching robotics teams, and now teaching full time, I have greatly improved and am now quite good at simplifying topics into digestible bite-size chunks.
Growing up, I would frequently seek out how things worked around me, taking apart pens, looking inside electronic devices to get a glimpse of the internals, and disassembling anything I could without getting in trouble. Many around me said that I should become an engineer one day. In middle school, myself and some friends started our county's first competitive robotics team, and after leading the team at my middle school, high school, and Auburn University for a combined total of 9 years, I can confidently say that they were right: engineering is the right field for me. In addition to leading a robotics team that competed with the best on a global stage, I ran my own rapid prototyping business for several years (focused on FDM 3d printing), worked as an engineer in the manufacturing space (lead mechanical engineer for $750k worth of projects), and obtained a mechanical engineering degree from Auburn University.
Though I am currently working full time as a Physics and Robotics Teacher at Tallassee High School, I am keeping my skills sharp by working on personal projects in my free time and plan to work in engineering full time once I complete my Master's Degree in Education.
