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Terra Environmental Research Institute senior Jack Young tutors after school every Monday and Wednesday for Mu Alpha Theta, the math honor society.
“I have basically tutored on every subject taught at my high school and along with my friends,” he says. “We help anyone who needs help.”
His favorite math is calculus because he likes the problem-solving aspect.
“You have to think logically, and I like that,” he says.
He is a math whiz – he earned perfect scores on the math section of both the SAT and the ACT.
Young is president of four clubs and honor societies, including Mu Alpha Theta. He’s also president of the Coding Club, the Jewish Student Union and the TEN80 club – where they race remote control cars in competition.
The Coding Club meets once or twice a month to teach students coding from beginning languages like Python, to harder ones like Java, HTML and C++.
“We also do coding competitions within the club,” he says. “There’s a game-jam and a hack-a-thon. They are held within the school. We show all the programs in the club, and everyone votes on a winner.”
As president of the Jewish Student Union, he brings in speakers to talk about Jewish culture. The JSU meets about once a month, and they talk about Jewish holidays and traditions.
His favorite is the TEN80 Club.
“We build and race RC cars,” he says. “We make them as fast as we can, and we go to competitions. Multiple schools in our area host competitions. We race cars on the tracks against other high schools. They are one tenth the scale of normal cars.”
The cars are approximately a foot-and-a-half in length.
“They are intricate, and you can interchange parts, which is a big part of the competition,” he says.
In fact, there is a pit crew for the competition.
“Almost like a NASCAR race but at an RC scale,” he says. “We order the cars on Amazon and then we switch out the parts.”
Club members participate in three to four competitions a year.
He’s vice president of the Engineering Club.
“We do activities at each of the meetings to teach everyone about the different types of engineering,” he says.
One big competition for the Engineering Club was the Florida International University Wall of Wind Challenge.
For that competition, they designed an aerodynamic model roof for a house that would survive a hurricane.
“We got first place,” he says. “I did the presentation part. We got first place in that, too.”
The Engineering students were invited to participate again in the competition that takes place in March. What part of the structure to be designed has not been announced yet.
Young is the Robotics Club historian, and he helps build the VEX robots. The students attend four or five competitions annually.
“I build the actual robot,” he says. “I help build it and fix it at the actual competition. I like building stuff.”
In the summer of 2021, he volunteered at the Minds of Tomorrow Summer Camp. He taught five to 12-year-olds. He enjoyed teaching them, although he felt he connected better with the older kids.
He also volunteers for Achieve Miami.
For fun, Young codes random games and things; little programs on his computer. One helps him calculate his grades.
Young is applying to the University of Florida, MIT, Cal Tech and Carnegie Mellon. He’s interested in a Robotics major.
Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld
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