Archive
Older work, kept on file. Engineering builds, research, academics, films, an internship, every leadership role, and letters of recommendation.
Engineering01
AI-Powered Hydroponics Robot
AI-run hydroponic system aimed at effortless home food-growing. A cable-suspended robot scans every plant through a vision-language model into a live dashboard and a phone app.
Semester-long project built around the UN Zero Hunger goal: a self-running rig anyone could grow food on at home. I led and designed it and owned the AI, electronics, sensor integration, the robot, and the scan algorithm, with a student team on the physical structure. A VEX EXP brain drives a four-cable lift over USB serial; a Python FastAPI server (HTMX, Tailwind, SSE) feeds a live dashboard and phone app. SQLite with tiered photo retention, APScheduler for the autonomous loop, and an OpenCV pipeline into a VLM in LM Studio.
House Points and Pip, the AI Costume Judge
Year-round house points for about 250 students and 34 staff, plus Pip, an AI judge that scores Theme Week costumes and credits the points to each house.
Replaced the 2025 Theme Week scoreboard with a system the school uses all year. Email-code sign-in, roles for teachers and student leaders, a reason and a name on every award, corrections that never erase history, and public standings with no login. Pip is a talking costume kiosk: it grades each photo against the day's theme on a four-step rubric, hands unclear cases to a human supervisor, and never sends nicknames to the AI provider. The finale added a multilingual audience vote and a live projector screen.
Open World 2026 Light and Projector Show
Solo end-to-end show production. DMX lighting cues, projection-mapped visuals, custom ESP32-based DMX controllers, all synced to a music timeline.
Programmed DMX cues in xLights and projection visuals in MadMapper. Routed DMX, HDMI, and audio across multiple devices into a single coordinated pipeline. Built custom ESP32 with MAX485 controllers to extend the rig past budget-limited gear. Roughly a month of iteration on hardware, cue programming, and rehearsals.
Autonomous Ramen Vending Machine
Semester-long collaborative build. ESP32 with Pico W control, reverse-engineered smart boiler and VEX V5 motors, web UI.
Owned all software and electronic system design (embedded firmware, circuit prototyping, system integration) while my teammate led mechanical design and fabrication. Reverse-engineered a closed-off commercial smart water boiler (for safety reasons) and repurposed VEX V5 hardware (for budget reasons) to interface with ESP32-based control logic. Iterated through woodworking and 3D-printed structure, custom-soldered circuits, and a web UI for user interaction.
Theme Week Live Leaderboard Platform
Real-time leaderboard and announcement system for the school-wide Theme Week event. Built solo in under two weeks, virtually free to operate.
Public site shows live house point totals, rankings, and announcements across phones, laptops, and large campus display screens. Secure role-restricted admin interface lets teachers and student leaders input points and publish announcements in real time. Vercel for deployment. Firebase for auth, database, and real-time sync.
Open World 2026 Payment and RSVP Portal
Solo end-to-end RSVP, QR-based payment processing, and on-site check-in for the school's flagship event. Built in under two weeks, runs virtually free.
Vanilla HTML and JavaScript frontend with a lightweight backend. Single source of truth drove RSVP, payment, and check-in flows. Organizers verified payments and scanned QR codes at the door for real-time check-in. Successfully deployed for the live event.
School Expo Rain Detector
Grade 8 expo project. Arduino-based rain detection, alerting, logging, and wireless data transmission.
Led the technical side: resistive rain sensor module, local alerts via buzzer and indicator light, on-device display, time-series logging, and wireless transmission for remote monitoring. Owned electronics and firmware end-to-end. The foundational hardware and software project that set up everything that came after.
Self-Funded Custom PC Build
Top-spec workstation for video editing, 3D, and gaming. Intel i9-13900KF and NVIDIA RTX 4090. Hand-picked, assembled, and tuned. Fully funded from REK.dev revenue.
First-ever PC build. Researched every component, assembled, cable-managed, then tuned at the BIOS level. CPU and memory overclocking, GPU undervolt, thermal validation under sustained editing and gaming workloads. Funded entirely from the editing business.
Research02
Academics03
Currently in Grade 12.
4.3Weighted GPA
Across all three high school years
| Year | GPA | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 92023-24 | 4.19 | Weighted (4.00 unweighted) |
| Grade 102024-25 | 4.31 / 4.42 | Semester 1 / Semester 2 |
| Grade 112025-26 | 4.27 | Semester 1 |
| Test | Total | Reading | Math |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSAT 9Oct 26, 2023 | 1080 | 560 | 520 |
| PSAT 10Apr 3, 2025 | 1210 | 620 | 590 |
| PSAT 11 / NMSQTOct 22, 2025 | 1260 | 650 | 610 |
| Course | Score |
|---|---|
| AP BiologyMay 5, 2025 | 3 |
| AP SeminarMay 23, 2025 | 3 |
| AP Physics 1May 2026 | 3 |
| AP Pre-CalculusMay 2026 | 3 |
| AP English Language and CompositionMay 2026 | 4 |
PSAT improvement of +180 points across three years (1080, then 1210, then 1260). First SAT planned in Grade 11 to 12.
Grade 10
- AP BiologyAP, score 3
- AP SeminarAP, score 3
Grade 11
- AP Physics 1AP, score 3
- AP Pre-CalculusAP, score 3
- AP English Language and CompositionAP, score 4
- Honors Engineering IIHonors
- Comparative Government and Politics (via MUN)Independent track
Grade 12
- AP Calculus AB to BCAP, current
- AP Literature and CompositionAP, current
- AP Environmental ScienceAP, current
- AP Computer Science PrinciplesAP, current
Visual media04
Grand Opener Video, D-PREP Open World 2026
Major step up from the prior year. A real-life to video transition: students live recording and performing the opening number, a cover of "Fallin'" that I produced with students singing it, to catch the audience off guard, followed by a 3D animation from outside the universe down to earth, into a drone shot flying to the school, where I am on the roof to welcome everyone. Fully edited, written, and shot by me, with my teacher Mr. Gareth helping with the welcome shot.
Welcome Back 2025, First School Day Leadership Video
As Student Body President for the 2025-26 school year, I made a leadership video to showcase the different councils students could join, encouraging signups and participation. Fully written and edited by me.
Genetics Before Mendel, AP Biology Video Project
AP Biology video essay using visual storytelling to walk through genetics before Mendel. Fully edited, written, and (semi) voiced over by me. First time experimenting with AI voice models that I locally trained to mimic my voice and voice the entire video.
Cinematic Opener Video, D-PREP Open World 2025
Opener for Open World 2025, designed to encapsulate attendees and present the elements that took place with every student in the lead-up to the event. First time experimenting with drones as a different point of view for storytelling. Primarily edited and shot by me, with assistance on writing and storyline.
What Inspires You?, D-PREP Open World 2025
Showcase piece for Open World 2025 designed to bring the community closer around one simple question. Shot, written, and edited by me.
Creep, Visual Arts Elective Performance Piece
Visual arts performance demonstrating my physical artwork and its integration into an abstract video. Recorded, edited, and music remixed by me. Brings different elements of art together into one piece.
The Last Photograph, Honors ELA Film Project
Honors English film project showcasing the class's ability to write, plan, and shoot a film. I worked primarily on script writing and videography, aiding the storyline and shooting and editing the film.
The Downfall of Netflix, Video Essay School Project
English language project on Netflix, its upcomings, and its eventual downfall. Highlights my video-essay abilities in content writing and editing.
Internship05
Kistler Instruments
Worked with Kistler Instruments Thailand to learn about the mechanical engineering behind industry measurement systems and sensors. The team walked me through the products Kistler sells to other manufacturers and showed how sensors play a major role in manufacturing, particularly on the automotive side.
During that time, Kistler had a showcase at a large manufacturing expo. I worked alongside the specialists on the sales floor, learning how to explain, demonstrate, and sell the products to industry visitors, and saw firsthand how the sales and engineering sides of the business work together.
Leadership06
Open World 2026
Sold out. Most ambitious to date. 100+ students involved.
Led D-PREP's flagship student-run event as Student Body President. Owned top-level direction across operations, technical production, multimedia, finance, performers, and emcees, coordinating 100+ secondary students under a one to two month planning window.
Student Body President
Highest student leadership position
Elected to lead all student councils, represent the student body to administration, mediate between students and staff, and serve as the primary student voice in school-wide decisions. Oversaw Open World, Theme Week, and a new slate of student-led initiatives.
Theme Week 2025
Designed and built the live leaderboard platform powering the week
Led D-PREP Theme Week 2025 as overall organizer: daily activity lineup, recess challenges, house competitions, MCing key events, plus the custom live leaderboard platform that kept points, rankings, and announcements in sync across students, teachers, and display screens.
Orientation Day 2025
Welcomed the entire secondary school back
Main organizer of D-PREP's Orientation Day. Designed welcome sessions, ice-breakers, and team-building activities to break down grade-level and friend-group barriers, and acted as a direct mentor for incoming students navigating an unfamiliar environment.
Open World 2025
Overall student lead in my first year as Student Body President
Overall student lead for Open World 2025. Contributed across multimedia (posters, videos, social), performances and emcee work, finance, and operations and logistics, while connecting between teams. Featured by a regional influencer.
Student Body President
Elected in first year at the school
Elected by student vote to lead the council during my first year at D-PREP, which required trust and credibility built fast. Ran council meetings, represented student voice to administration, oversaw Open World and Theme Week 2024, and mentored younger student leaders.
Theme Week 2024
Lead organizer, year before building the leaderboard platform
Lead organizer for Theme Week 2024 as Student Body President. Planned the activity lineup, led events on the ground, coordinated with teachers on scheduling and scoring, and ran daily scoring and announcements while participating as a member of my own house.
DPrepMUN, Chair
Hosted closed conference. 20+ delegates and reporters.
Committee leadership role at D-PREP's internal MUN. Setting agenda, moderating debate, guiding delegates through procedure, managing motions and resolutions, and helping run the wider conference.
Thai MUN 2024, Delegate
Passed resolution
National-level conference. Researched country policy, drafted opening speeches and position papers, built blocs across multiple days of caucusing, and contributed to a passed committee resolution.
Varsity Boys Volleyball, Opposite Hitter
Playoff run. Led on-court communication.
Contributed to a team playoff run and led communication during competitive matches across AISAA and BISAL leagues.
House Captain
Multiple Sports- and Spirit-Day wins
Elected by house members for a year-long leadership role: representing the house to staff, organizing meetings and activities, leading at Sports Day and inter-house events, and driving overall house spirit and identity.
Yearbook Club, Founder and Lead Designer
Produced and sold 80 print copies of the inaugural yearbook
Founded the yearbook club and led design end-to-end. Produced and shipped the school's first printed yearbook.
Haunted House Fundraiser, Director
Raised THB 12,000 for the student-activities fund
Directed the school's haunted house fundraiser. Set design, scare choreography, and logistics, ending with THB 12,000 raised for the student-activities fund.
A good leader is someone who isn't afraid to take initiative and turn ideas into reality. They lead by example, showing that responsibility and service are important to making a real and impactful difference.
I want to help create an environment where students would stop waiting for instructions to make a change and start taking actual ownership of their community. I hope to leave a legacy where student-led impact is the norm, and not the exception.