Aidan C. (IN A NUTSHELL)

Aidan is an undergraduate at Stanford University pursuing a major in Electrical Engineering, and potentially minoring in Computer Science and American History. Aidan is a Bay Area native, having attended Woodside Priory in Portola Valley. In high school, Aidan dove as deep as he could into his school’s STEM and History offerings, taking Data Structures, Artificial Intelligence, and Calc III, as well as Honors World History and AP US History. In his junior year of high school, Aidan discovered his passion for teaching as a TA for Priory’s Intro to CS class where he would run labs, help students outside of school, and even teach the entire class on occasion. In his senior year, Aidan was a TA for World History, where he graded papers and helped lead seminars. Most of Aidan’s time was spent on out-of-school projects, where he founded http://Gardensense.net, a low-cost environmental sensor network for small to medium scale agriculture projects. He is currently working on helping integrate the project into school gardens! He is also in the process of securing a patent (UPSTO: 62/412,892) for a smart case for common and expensive temperature-sensitive life saving medicines such as Epinephrine or Narcan. Since the beginning of high school, Aidan has spent his summers as an electrical engineer at V5 Systems, where he learns how the industry works and how products are built in the real world. He is always working on his portfolio of personal projects, whether he is building his friend a concussion-detecting device, or a 3’x2’ CNC CO2 Laser Cutter, he does it all with a smile and healthy obsession. When he’s not doing homework or projects, you can find Aidan playing chess, going out on weekends with his friends, and cooking at every opportunity he gets!