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Stanton

• Won the UCSB Datathon with Kay in winter 2026.
• Scored a 173 on the LSAT as a freshman.
• Ranked in the 99th percentile in Rapid on Chess.com.

Arthur

• Built 26 drones in the past three years.
• Demoed drone technology to the Pentagon.
• Selected for Founders Inc, Pre-Residency, and YC Startup School.

Quinn

• Won first place overall at a 500+ student hackathon in Santa Barbara.
• Reached the top 0.01% in League of Legends and won multiple tournaments.
• Led his water polo team in goals while winning city championships four years in a row.

Joaquin

• Graduated high school valedictorian, ranked 1 out of 690 students.

Nag

• Earned a granted Indian utility patent as a high school inventor.
• Won a category at HackTX, a hackathon with roughly 1,600 participants.
• Built AI grading software in 2023 that piloted across two computer science classes.

Viktor

• Led iOS development of StudySync at Stanford's Snyder Lab; presented the project at PMWC 2026.
• Helped build a platform used in 3+ studies at top institutions across 10 countries.
• Led development of the Curiosity App at UCSB's META Lab, used by studies featured in Psychology Today, Santa Barbara Independent, and KCBX.
• Organized a UCSB ocean charity plunge with 300+ participants and $500+ raised for the Marine Conservation Network.

Yasen

• Founded Mailbox AI, reaching 400 users and processing more than 2 million emails.
• Built Braille Reader & Writer, reaching 1,000+ users with vibration-based reading and a Braille keyboard.
• Refactored and helped drive new products for M2M Services' RControl app, which has 500K+ users.

John

• Published two first-author AI for physical science papers in affiliation with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
• Built and pretrained a transformer-like foundation model from scratch.
• Built and scaled Coralflavor to 23K signed-in users and $900 MRR in three months.