This section help you to know what drives me forward, and the background behind my ambitions.
I scan still rememeber the cold feel of the keyboard and glowing white screen on which I saw "Helllo World" displayed at 3 am under my bedshhet. I learned to code on my own when I was 9. I used an old manuscrite I found in my brother's book pile - I do not remember the title anymore. Back then, I was impressed with all we could do with this skill, but as the "model brother" I had to be , I had to focus more on my school work
Ever since I did not loss the main skill coding had taught me - critical thinking and problem solving -, but I had loss this habit of building: this feeling that you could get up on a Tuesday morning and write a nice "hello world" before going to school.
I applied to this summer program (Open Dreams Summer Academy), and I met this facilitator. He shared with us his experience with coding, which was very similar to mine by the way, and he told us how the hack club in general helped him to meet teens that had the same passion as he did.
You may ask yourself:"So you want to follow his steps. Right ?". My answer is yes and no. Yes because I want to discover the hack club, take part to hackatons and make some solid connections with people out there. At the same time, no, because I want to do it my way. I want people to know me as "This is Alan" rather than "He looks like someone I know".
Well, there is a lot of power outages here in my country, making it pretty difficult to build hardware-based projects, plus the parental pressure requesting for excellent school grades and the extremly bad network issues we do have.
I also have to manage college application and my end of high school certifiacte, which seem to be a big work load for the weeks that follow.
I want to found the first hack club club in my school, spread the news about this wonderful community of individuals and give them the opportunity to start early their first exposure to tech competition and the fun derived from building stuffs!
I alos want to participate in my first hackathon in the upcoming year. I have to showxase my skills that I build overtime. Moreover, I should get my video for the Junior breakthrough challenge ready by the deadline.