September 15, 2022
  • teaching

Nobel Explorers

Teaching machine learning and computer science to 60+ international students, before I started college.

Role
Facilitator
Timeline
Feb – Sep 2022
Outcome
60+ students · Ukraine, Taiwan, Brazil

Overview

Nobel Explorers is a global technology-education initiative. I joined as a facilitator while still in high school. Over eight months I taught 60+ international students across 3 cohorts, in Ukraine, Taiwan, and Brazil among others, teaching a curriculum covering machine learning, computer vision, and internet fundamentals.

What I did

Why it stuck

This is the experience my education minor points back to. Teaching 60+ people how computers learn, before I’d taken a single college CS course, is what made Secondary Education feel less like an elective and more like continuing something I’d already started. It’s also why “I build software people actually use, then teach the next person how to build it too” is on the front page of this site.