User Portlet

Adrienne Lai is a high school senior from Alexandria, Virginia who loves to learn! In school, her favorite classes are math, chemistry, biology, and physics. With programming, she is interested in fractals, cellular automata, machine learning, and graphics, and programs in Python, Java, Matlab, and the Wolfram Language. Adrienne is also a mentor at a local chapter of CoderDojo, where she teaches kids how to code in Scratch and Python. On FIRST Tech Challenge robotics team 6010, Adrienne is a team captain and the head programmer, and she especially enjoys integrating sensors onto the robot to provide data on the robot's position during the autonomous period of a match. In addition to her STEM interests, Adrienne enjoys creative writing: she has written and directed One Act plays and serves as a co-literary editor of her school's literary and art magazine. In her free time, she likes to read and learn Morse Code.