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### TRAE Solo Hackathon (Oct 2025)
- **result:** 1st place out of 29 ($1500)
-- **where:** Roblox HQ
+- **where:** a tech company's office
- **what I learned:** solo hackathons force you to scope ruthlessly. no teammate to split work with means every feature choice matters.
### AGI House Agent Skills Build Day (Mar 14, 2026)
- **result:** won
-- **team:** built a Claude skill with Adele and Sefika. also launched referral.bike at the same event.
+- **team:** built a Claude skill with two teammates. also launched referral.bike at the same event.
- **what I learned:** the best hackathon teams have complementary skills, not overlapping ones.
-### EventConnect at Manus AI event
+### EventConnect at an AI company's hackathon event
- **result:** won audience vote
-- **team:** built with Dirac
+- **team:** built with a friend
- **what I learned:** audience votes reward demos that feel magical. polish the demo.
### MongoDB Agentic Memory & Context Engineering Hackathon (Oct 11, 2025)
- **result:** top 6 out of 70
-- **where:** Cerebral Valley
+- **where:** SF
- **what I learned:** "top 6 out of 70" feels like almost-winning, which is its own kind of useful. close losses sharpen you.
### Gemini Multimodal Hackathon (Oct 18-19, 2025)
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ hackathons are where I learn fastest. you compress months of learning into 24-48
- **what I learned:** multimodal demos are hard to scope. the "wow" moment needs to be in the first 30 seconds.
### organizing: Startup Pitch Hackathon (May 9, 2026)
-- organizing this with Doreen Xia. $5k/$2.5k/$1.25k prizes. being on the other side of hackathons teaches you what judges actually look for.
+- co-organizing this. $5k/$2.5k/$1.25k prizes. being on the other side of hackathons teaches you what judges actually look for.
### upcoming: SF Hackathon (Apr 25, 2026)
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ math competitions teach you to think precisely under pressure. the skills transf
- **honest take:** the canonical pipeline. I did it, it was useful for building mathematical maturity, but I didn't make AIME and that's fine. the AMC grind has diminishing returns if you're not naturally headed toward USAMO.
### HiMCM (Nov 2025)
-- **team:** Dirac, Parth, Daniel
+- **team:** three teammates
- **what we did:** fire/evacuation scenario, Monte Carlo simulation
- **honest take:** massively underrated competition. see [[math-modeling]] for the full breakdown. this is the closest to actual applied math/engineering work. 36 hours, real-world problem, build a model. I love math modeling competitions more than contest math.
@@ -81,17 +81,17 @@ math competitions teach you to think precisely under pressure. the skills transf
### BmMT
- **result:** 2nd best puzzle round score (2023)
-### SMT (Stanford Math Tournament)
+### SMT (a university math tournament)
- **result:** honorable mention individual + team
-### NMT (Nueva Math Tournament)
+### NMT (my school's math tournament)
- I co-lead this. organizing a math tournament teaches you logistics, problem-writing, and community-building all at once.
## physics competitions
### USAYPT (Jan 2026)
- **result:** 2nd nationally. the format (physics meets debate) also develops [[giving-talks|public speaking]] skills
-- **team:** Harrison, Parth, Mo, Eddy, Clara, Colin, Emily, Aurelia, Liam, Kevin, Andy
+- **team:** 11 members
- **honest take:** unique format — physics meets debate. you present research, other teams poke holes in it. teaches you to defend ideas rigorously. placing 2nd nationally with this team was one of my proudest moments.
### F=ma Exam (2026)
@@ -100,12 +100,12 @@ math competitions teach you to think precisely under pressure. the skills transf
## science & research competitions
### BL4S / CERN BeamLine for Schools (submitted Mar 2026)
-- **team:** Gamma Guardians — Harrison, Noah, Sydney, Abhi
+- **team:** four members
- **what:** proton beam shielding simulation
- **honest take:** writing a proposal for actual CERN beam time forces you to think like a real physicist. even if we don't get selected, the proposal-writing process was incredibly valuable.
### Davidson Fellows (submitted Feb 2026)
-- **what:** submitted paper #0352 on anesthetics/EEG
+- **what:** submitted my paper on anesthetics/EEG
- **honest take:** this rewards depth. you need to have done something genuinely significant. I submitted my EEG [[publishing-research|research]].
### Golden Gate STEM Fair (early Mar 2026)
@@ -127,12 +127,12 @@ math competitions teach you to think precisely under pressure. the skills transf
- **NACLO:** open round (computational linguistics — surprisingly fun)
- **PicoCTF 2024:** cybersecurity CTF. good for learning security basics.
- **Wharton Data Science:** participated
-- **Fed Challenge (NY Fed):** did this with Alexis. made a corn podcast. yes, a corn podcast.
+- **Fed Challenge (NY Fed):** did this with a teammate. made a corn podcast. yes, a corn podcast.
- **Ethics Bowl:** went 2-1
## chess
-USCF 1386. won USATW U1000 6-0, 3rd at SF Scholastic, perfect score at D-Tech, bughouse 8-0. chess is the thing I do for fun that happens to also be competitive.
+won USATW U1000 6-0, placed at SF Scholastic, won at a local tournament, bughouse 8-0. chess is the thing I do for fun that happens to also be competitive.
## the meta