2025
I ended junior year, and I am making this portfolio site right now!
2025
I entered an oratorical contest on a whim and created, practiced, memorized, and orated an 8 minute speech in about five hours. I was able to win first place and the $500 that came along with it. I invested the money in NVIDIA stock right after
2024
I started learning how to work with Arduinos and ESP32s
2023
In September of 2023, I joined the programming subteam, switching from design, to pursue my passion in programming
2022
Later that year, I enrolled at Southington High School and joined the CyberKnights, an FRC team
2022
In the spring of eighth grade, the robotics team opened for an offseason event between the middle schools and I learned more about the updated FLL interface.
2020
On March 20th, while I was in 6th grade, the school was shut down for a cleaning about a virus thought to come and go in three weeks. I was remote for the entire seventh grade year.
2019
I enrolled in DePaolo Middle School and joined their robotics team as well, the DePaolo Rockets
2018
In March, I created a scratch account under the alias 'MegaHyperMonkey', where I made stuff ranging from painfully difficult games, to simple platformers, to a school project!
2017
In the beginning of fourth grade, I joined my Elementary School's FLL robotics team, the Hatton Rebel Bots, where I learned more basic programming
2014
I watched a video titled 'Introducing WIldcat' by Boston Dynamics. It was the first robot I had ever seen and it sparked my interest in robotics moving forwards
2011
On June 27th, I was enrolled in Hatton Elementary School
2008
On June 24th at 5:53 pm, David Chmura was born in the UConn health center