With Technology's "Planned Obsolescence" and the more common nowadays Smartboards still priced around $2,000 - $6000 USD, I decided to make a change. Around 2022, I received from a teacher's gracious funding a Raspberry Pi 4 8 Gigabyte and time in class to work on it. Over time, I had managed to get a stable version of Lineage OS, which is an operating system based on Android. Experimenting with some of the most common boards, such as Promethean and Newline, using the built-in technology, I was able to create an "Upgrade" box that plugged into the Touch and HDMI ports that essentially replaced the integrated system. Before eventually departing middle school and marking this project as complete, I managed to get a Fedora Linux running on the board, making it possible to give users an experience of Android or Linux. This was my first ever project, thank you for reading!

During my 8th-grade year, I participated in the H2 Grand Prix! H2 Grand Prix is "more than a global racing series; it's a movement powering the next generation of engineers, problem-solvers, and clean energy champions." This little chance into Hydrogen vehicles is where I taught myself on energy efficiency in vehicles and how to CAD design using programs such as Fusion 360! This chance to be part of a team like this brought a lot of opportunities, especially the opportunity to learn from my wonderful engineering teacher, Mark Gendernalik. Within the LAUSD district, I did have the chance with the team to talk to Scott Schmerelson, who is a board member who interviewed us and discussed further about this Grand Prix. Throughout the Grand Prix, we, in my opinion, did amazing, making it to the California State Finals! With these skills, I do go further on, in the field of vehicles, studying more into the autonomy aspects of them.

In Freshman year, I was introduced to the world of VEX robotics on the Reseda High School team of 20W! As the lead programmer and CAD designer, I was in charge of helping make changes to our robot's design, making sure they were also properly documented, while learning the coding language of Python, building on the Drive and Autonomous codes of the robot. Each variation of our robot involved changes of code and documentation that, as a team, we all worked together, but mainly I, as the Lead Programmer, was in charge of creating drive codes (Codes that run during a match, giving the driver full range of controls and functions) and autonomous codes incorporating PID sensors into my work. Throughout the couple of months of competitions and hard work, our team earned two of Vex's awards! We had won both the Build Award at Vex in the Valley and the Innovation Award at Rumble In the Jungle.

In order to understand more about IP-based network displays and their operations, I have decided to make my own using a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B! Using the alternative DAKBoard smart display, I have looked into the networks and ways through which they deliver data at the speed of light to get it to your displays. The process made me understand about display operation in a commercial environment and how they connect to communicate through the networks, allowing you to mount them in any environment such as schools and airports!

In addition to their display capabilities, I have found out that IP-based displays work similarly to other network devices in terms of receiving an IP address, getting content from the local servers or cloud storage and updating it at specific intervals of time. In this regard, one can push new content instantly across hundreds of displays within an organization from a single control panel, whether making changes to the flight boards in an airport or refreshing messages on display boards in schools. Creating my own IP-based display made me appreciate the value of reliability in displays in relation to reboots upon power restoration, Wi-Fi connection without user intervention and caching images when offline.