About

I am a 15-year-old from Melbourne, Australia who enjoys creating, designing and building projects. I like playing piano, creating art and making things. I do Olympic weightlifting competitively as a hobby and enjoy entering robotics and science competitions. I have won multiple Science Talent Search Victoria Bursaries and the 2018 BHP Engineering award for my project the Tablet Sorter along with being a 2019 Semi-Finalist for my project 'The Electronic Cane for the Blind'. I have qualified and been honoured to represent Australia at the World Robot Olympiad (WRO) in 2018 in Thailand and in 2019 in Hungary alongside other Australian Team Members.

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Contact me at skyetechandprojects@gmail.com

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My background in robotics 

I started off with Lego EV3 Robots, entering an Australian competition called Robocup Jr. I began in the rescue category which consists mainly of line following and completing a task at the end of pushing a can out of a zone. 

It was exciting at the start but wore off. I soon started looking into the soccer category of the competition, which allowed teams who qualified to travel overseas at the end of the year and represent Australia at an international robotics competition called WRO. I thoroughly enjoyed doing Standard League Soccer. The category consists of Lego robots under 1kg and with size limits to program two autonomous robots that can track an infrared ball and score goals for the team. My team consisted of me and my three siblings and we called ourselves The S-Kids. I was the main programmer, we had a builder, a strategist and another programmer. We went on to win the state level competition the first year of competing (2017) then achieved the win at the national competition. We even beat out a team from Korea and the rest of the teams. This was a huge achievement for all of us, because we were all so young compared to our high-school competitors. Winning the Australian competition gave me hope and made me see that hard work does pay off, and even though we were still young, we could achieve big things. We had spent countless hours working on the robot, and especially because I was the programmer I spent even longer, late nights perfecting and testing the program to the best of my ability. I learnt new programming languages, such as RobotC, which was a great insight into 'real' programming with typing, rather than dragging blocks around and getting familiar with the way languages based on C worked. 

In 2018 we also won Nationals, qualifying once again to represent Australia at WRO, along with two other Australian teams. The competition in Thailand was one of the greatest experiences of my life. Our team had reduced to three, my eldest sister was too old to compete, so just me, my parents and my two other siblings went.

Hungary in 2019 was even better than Thailand, now that we were older and had even more experience with the soccer league.