Projects
Highlights of my favourite personal projects and experiences!
TEDxColumbiaLake Youth Talk
Unique fact about me... I was diagnosed with leukemia at 16. It was the toughest thing I've ever had to go through, but it's also the experience that made me who I am today. Throughout the journey, I used content creation as my emotional outlet, writing blogs and doing interviews for fundraising campaigns. Eventually, I gave a TEDx Talk about that entire journey of tragedy to triumph!
TT-Bot
Worked with friends to make an autonomous table tennis training robot. As a player, I hated when I couldn't work on my game since I didn't have anyone to practice with. So we went through the whole design thinking process and used ROBOTC, a Tetrix kit and 3D printing/laser cutting to create this robot. It could move along the table and serve the ball at different angles, directions, spins.
SpinShooter
Developed a motorized, rotating mini basketball net game for friendly competition and to improve shooting in a fun way. It had an arcade-style design where we used SolidWorks and 3D printing to create the arm-belt mechanism, then soldered the electronics and assembled the final prototype. It quickly turned into a crowd favourite during demo day, and was proof that engineering mixed with fun is the best attention grabber!
Walmart Blue Labs
To tackle agricultural emissions, we created a business plan for Seafeed—a startup using red seaweed (Asparagopsis Taxiformis) as a feed additive for cattle to reduce methane emissions by over 95%. I researched how the seaweed inhibits methane, analyzed competitors, understood how to grow it effectively in aqua farms, and led the creation of a website, video, article, and pitch deck to make our idea real. Won a Moonshot competition for our project!
Cancer Research
While going through treatment, I got curious about the science behind cancer and started researching everything from leukemia to CAR T-Cell therapy to video games as treatment tools. My findings led to a deeper research paper I wrote on a new DNA-based approach to killing cancer cells using aptamers. This work led to a lab tour and an internship offer at the CHEO Research Institute (the same hospital where I was being treated at the time).
Did a consulting challenge with Walmart's Innovation team to design the store of 2030. Our team proposed a health-focused app that that recommends products based on users’ personal health data. We connected with retail experts, looked at case studies, performed cost analyses, user journey mapping, and make mockups. We were a top-performing international team and pitched our idea to Walmart Canada's CEO and 400+ Executives.