ABOUT US

Michael is a rising senior at the Acton-Boxborough Regional HIgh School. He started out his hobby in CS during elementary school with web development, and later cultivated skills in Java and Python. He earned a 5 on the Java-based AP Exam during his sophomore year. Michael also has been a long-time employee at Kumon, and this combined with teaching roles at other organizations, including KTByte, has cultivated his comfort and strong skills working with students. Michael also enjoys building his website, working at conservation lands around Acton, and playing sports outside with friends.

Kevin Yao is a rising senior at Algonquin Regional High School. Kevin has a wide variety of interests within STEM. From obscure AI generated art to Computational Biology, Kevin has dived into a many multidisciplinary subjects involving programming. Kevin was selected this summer to do research at the MIT Lincoln Labs with MIT Beaver Works, having the opportunity to work with state-of-the-art technology in robotics and software. Outside of working in tech, Kevin competes in the cross country team for his school.

Eric is a rising senior at the Algonquin Regional High School. Eric is a national DECA competitor, placing top 4 out of 300 nationwide. On his journey to the top level, he was the Massachusetts District and States winner. Outside of Enginuity, Eric enjoys the outdoors, lots of sports, reading, and competitive stand up comedy. Find Eric on altivify.com - a passion project he started providing financial education!

Lilac is a rising senior at the Acton-Boxborough Regional High School. She has been acrylic painting and sketching for nine years and oil painting for six years. She is a three-time MA Junior Duckstamp 1st place winner and 2017 Best of Show Winner (Best of MA) as well as getting a 2nd place and honorable mention victory. She has also been volunteering at Apple Leaf Studio for 3 years and helped with the 2022 MA Junior Duckstamp Competition. In 2022, Lilac also painted a mural at ABRHS and started teaching at Acton Chinese Language School as an acrylic painting teacher.

Eric is a rising senior at the Acton-Boxborough Regional High School. Eric is very passionate about helping our planet and with Michael started Rooted in Mass to help share volunteer opportunities to middle and high schoolers that have goals of protecting wildlife and our environment.

Edward is a rising senior at the Acton-Boxborough Regional High School who aspires to be a computer engineer. 

Jessie is a rising senior at the Acton Boxborough Regional High School. Ever since she has been able to pick up a pencil, she has been sketching, painting, crocheting, and engaged in nearly every type of artistic medium. She has also worked on several graphic design and outreach projects for several student organizations such as National Honor Society. Jessie is also the recipient of the Scholastic Art and Writing National Gold Medal and has her works published by notable magazines such as Blick Art Materials Celebrating Art. As she’s the Chief Layout Editor of the Acton Boxborough Regional High School’s newspaper, The Spectrum, Jessie enjoys expressing herself creatively while also being able support and lead others to their full potential. Jessie strives for equity and accessibility within academia and she has been doing data analysis on the R.J. Grey Junior High School’s library collection to survey for diversity has been presented to the district school board to advocate for more funding to provide diverse voices to students. She is also the Vice President and tutor of a student led club, Her + Math, which advocates for women’s education in STEM and provides academic support.

Alex is a rising junior at Acton-Boxborough Regional High School. He first started programming three years ago and mainly uses Java. For the past two years, Alex has been a part of the Acton-Boxborough Computer Science Club, and, in the past year, he participated in American Computer Science League and made it to ACSL finals. Outside of computer science, Alex is part of Resource Force, an environmental action club. Alex also likes to listen to classical music and read random Wikipedia articles.

Christopher is a rising sophmore at the Acton-Boxborough Regional High School.

Aiden is a rising sophomore at ABRHS. He currently works as a teacher assistant at KTBYTE. He recently has scored a 5 on AP Computer Science A and AP Environmental Science. Aiden is a certified US Soccer Referee and has been playing the sport for 10+ years. He also spends time volunteering as a mentor at a program for African refugees. Aiden has experience with AI and ML and 8+ years with Java. He is a student council representative for ABRHS and also part of the marching and concert band at school. Fun fact: Aiden can solve a Rubik’s Cube in 17 seconds :)

Eric is a rising sophmore at the Acton-Boxborough Regional High School.

Herman is a rising sophmore at the Acton-Boxborough Regional High School.