Scott is studying software engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester, New York. It’s a five-year program with co-op requirements. Scott has fulfilled those requirements by working for two different organizations. The first is ANSYS, an engineering simulation company, where he worked for three summers as a programmer in the Meshing Development Unit. […]
Scott is an avid programmer. He fell in love with programming around the age of 13 and began teaching himself various programming languages. Often, when we went in to tuck him in at night, he would be reading some three-inch thick book about Python or C++ or some other language. He currently knows 20+ languages, […]
In the fall of 2012, our local school district approached Scott about developing an online application for standardizing teacher evaluations in accordance with state requirements. Scott agreed to be the project leader, which involved designing the application, establishing project specifications, working with the assistant principal responsible for the project, coordinating the work of other student […]
An acquaintance put us in touch with good friends of theirs, Tom Anderson and his wife, Marianne Anderson, who worked at Microsoft in the early days of Windows and Excel. Tom was Program Manager on such products as Windows 3.11, Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95, and Internet Explorer, among other projects. Tom is now working […]
In the summer of 2012 (when Scott was between 11th and 12th grades), he participated in Andrew’s Leap, a computer enrichment program for high school students that is run by the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, PA. Participants must take a qualifying exam to be accepted into the class. Hundreds […]