Empowering students to pursue a career in STEM (MINT).

I want to inspire gymnasium-level students to discover robotics as a tool for solving real-world problems. By building and experimenting, they develop a mindset that blends human adaptiveness with machine capabilities. They should gain confidence in their skills and notice opportunities around them where technology can make a difference.

Just as importantly, I want to demystify engineering by showing that progress comes from simplifying intelligently.

As a student, I believed real engineering would be dull and “crazy complicated” because high-school simplifications wouldn’t apply. Now the goal is to show that choosing the right simplifications is powerful - and often the most exciting part of engineering: knowing what matters and what can be left out of the model. All models are wrong, but some are useful.