Community

Fifteen

Food, friends, conversation

MacCoy and I bring people from across Duke together over food.

Each gathering brings 10–15 people from different fields to the same table, with phones away.

Guests have ranged from professional poker players and athletes to PhD students, young nuclear scientists, people working at NASA, filmmakers, physicists, economists, and marine scientists.

Founder dinners

Duke & beyond

I host dinners connecting founders and investors.

The community has grown to 70+ founders and 10+ investors across AI, biotech, manufacturing, and other fields.

Conversation around the table at a Duke builder dinner

FIRST Robotics · Team Athena

Team 8868 · India · 2022

I led Team Athena’s eight-person robotics team in Chicago.

We won the Rookie All Star Award at the Midwest Regionals.

I worked on robot construction and fundraising, alongside STEM outreach with underserved students and NGOs.

The school's write-up · Team Athena at FIRST ↗