Class of 2027

Adetayo Agueh

A in Bethesda, Maryland.

I have always been in love with engineering and computers. I'm a senior in Bethesda, Maryland, class of 2027, and I build AI tools, robots, apps and hardware. Scroll down and I'll show you how it started.

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  1. 01 · Chief Strategist & Vice President

    Robotics Club

    In 11th grade I helped bring Rochambeau's robotics club back after five years without one, and I ended up as chief strategist and vice president: running strategy for a team of ten and co-leading the meetings. We placed 2nd at MIT's international Zero Robotics competition. I treat game strategy like a math problem. For this year's Botball game I wrote a scorer that tests any plan before we build anything, then split the work between two robots based on where the pieces sit.

  2. 02 · Independent Researcher

    HFT research

    I wanted to understand what high-frequency trading does to retail investors, the people buying a few shares at a time. So I read the research on how manipulation works, wrote it up, and built my own detector. It watches one-minute price bars and flags the minutes that look like momentum ignition. On 20 US stocks and funds it raised about five alerts per stock per day, and shuffled data raised a similar number, which I take to mean the alerts catch unusual trading rather than proof of manipulation. The paper is on Zenodo and the code is on GitHub.

  3. 03 · Founder & Solo Developer

    Lookt

    Lookt is an app I'm building on my own for iOS and Android. You scan a food's barcode or lot code and it checks it against FDA, USDA and CDC recalls, so you find out in the aisle instead of after dinner. It also keeps watching what's in your pantry, so a recall announced next week still reaches you. It works in English and Spanish, and it's waiting on App Store review.

  4. 04 · Chief Technology Officer

    Paper-trading simulator

    As CTO of the Economics and Finance Club I looked after the club's tech, and I built a paper-trading simulator so members could try out investment decisions with pretend money before ever risking real money.

  5. 05 · Co-Founder & Executive Director

    Lights for Lebanon

    Families in Lebanon have been displaced, so three of us started raising money from here in Bethesda. I co-founded Lights for Lebanon and run it as executive director. We ran five grassroots campaigns in three months, bake sales included, and raised more than $2,000. It goes to aid partners working on the ground, like Beit el Baraka and the American Task Force on Lebanon.

  6. 06 · Member; Project Lead

    Rochamsport

    I pitched my school a sports stats site, then built it: live scores, schedules, rosters and season leaders for Rochambeau's teams. I also created the Rochamrefs, a group of student scorekeepers with more than ten roles, so scores get entered live. Along the way I helped organise leagues for over ten teams and about 150 students, and co-ran a media day.

  7. 07 · Self-Directed Hardware Engineer

    Arduino projects

    What I build on my own with an Arduino and a 3D printer, since 9th grade: an ultrasound radar that sees up to 4 meters, a CO2 sensor rig that logs its readings straight into a Google Sheet, and a motorized, 3D-printed V8 engine model.

  8. 08 · Founder & Developer

    PitchSafe

    PitchSafe is a free injury-risk tracker for amateur soccer players. You log your sessions, a weekly recovery check-in, your cleats and your injury history, and it turns that into a 0 to 100 risk score with cited, rule-based advice and a one-page report you can hand to a coach. It runs on a Cloudflare Worker with React, Clerk for sign-in, and a Neon Postgres database where every row is locked to its owner.

  9. 09 · Developer

    Outage Tracker

    Outage Tracker puts power, internet and cellular outages on one live map. You report what's down where you are, confirm what other people report, and it helps you work out whether the problem is your router or your whole street. I built it with Next.js and MapLibre, with Supabase and PostGIS behind it, web push alerts, and a storm-warning layer from the National Weather Service.

  10. 10 · Developer

    Finance Terminal

    The Rochambeau Finance Terminal is a market workstation in the browser. In real mode it shows live quotes, charts and market movers. In simulation mode you can paper-trade with time controls, a news engine and a tutorial. Signing in keeps your watchlist and your simulation saves across devices. It's React, Vite and TypeScript with Supabase behind it.

Walk through my story ↓

My story, one room at a time

The museum

From my first LEGO robot to this year. Scroll, and each chapter comes to you.

00Who I amThe person behind the projects
01PassionsWhat I do when I am not building
02LEGO Mindstorms robotLEGO bricks, NXT/EV3 motors and sensors
03Hydraulic armCardboard, syringes, tubing, water
04First Minecraft modJava, Minecraft Forge
05CAD motorCAD model, 3D printing
06Unreal Engine gameUnreal Engine, Blueprints
07First PC buildCase, motherboard, CPU, GPU, RAM, storage

Scroll or use the arrow keys: one notch brings the next thing, another opens it.

Exhibit 00

Who I am

I'm Ade. I have always been in love with engineering and computers, and this is the story of how that started, in the order it happened.

I'm a senior at Rochambeau, the French International School in Bethesda, Maryland. Outside of building things I sail, bike, play fantasy football and have strong opinions about cats. I'm applying to study computer science and AI.

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Exhibit 01

Passions

When I'm not building something: fishing, basketball, golf, tennis, volleyball, sailing, cinema and music. Pull a card out.

01 / 08

Fishing

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Exhibit 02 · First machines

LEGO Mindstorms robot

Medium
LEGO bricks, NXT/EV3 motors and sensors

The first thing I ever built that moved on its own. Bricks, motors, sensors, and a lot of trial and error.

Photo coming.

Exhibit 03 · First machines

Hydraulic arm

Medium
Cardboard, syringes, tubing, water

Cardboard, syringes, tubing and water. I learned that pressure can do real work.

Photo coming.

Exhibit 04 · Code and computers

First Minecraft mod

Medium
Java, Minecraft Forge

My first code. I wanted the game to do something it did not do, so I wrote it in Java with Forge.

Photo coming.

Exhibit 05 · Code and computers

CAD motor

Medium
CAD model, 3D printing

The first time I designed a part on a screen and then held it, 3D-printed.

Photo coming.

Exhibit 06 · Code and computers

Unreal Engine game

Medium
Unreal Engine, Blueprints

A game of my own in Unreal Engine, built with Blueprints.

Photo coming.

Exhibit 07 · Code and computers

First PC build

Medium
Case, motherboard, CPU, GPU, RAM, storage

The computer I use today. I picked every part and put it together myself.

Photo coming.