Omayow

My Computer Science Journey

Signing up for AP Computer Science during my senior year of high school marked the inception of my programming interests. Although the idea of computer science intrigued me, I had no idea what to expect walking into class for the first time. Already loaded up on my desktop was Alice 2D, an archaic scene-based graphic software. Interweaving models and actions together in a landscape, I spent the next hour programming characters to walk, jump, and ultimately come to life in my fantastically constructed scenes. Before I knew it, I fell in love with programming.

High School and beyond

My love for programming only proliferated from thereon. Throughout senior year, I frequented coding practice websites such as CodingBat to bolster my Java skillset. The following summer before college, I discovered website development. I learned the ropes of Ruby on Rails and MySQL, programming a CRUD-based website; although it was simple and plain, coding from scratch offered me a unique satisfaction. I continued my web development pursuits and picked up Laravel, PHP, and Angular.js throughout freshman year and into the summer. Additionally, the Code Ignite lessons I taught on game design at John Early Middle inspired me to program my own 2D platformer game with Unity2D.

My Resume

My Major Engagements

Here's where most of my precious time is spent on Vanderbilt Campus and around the Music City of Nashville, TN!

Change++

Co-Founder & CMO

As a co-founder and the CMO, I seek to attract creative programmers, designers, and developers to the organization, as well as to recruit sympathetic organizations to contribute to and collaborate with Change++. Currently, I help our four teams interface with our participating non-profit organizations. I cannot wait to see the impact that Change++ will have on our community and beyond.

Code Ignite

Team Leader

I teach programming lessons in MIT Scratch block-coding to over 40 inner-city students after school hours weekly at John Early Magnet Middle School and Bellevue Prep Middle School. As a team leader, I instruct a team of three other programming teachers on how to profess weekly lessons to students in a constructive and interactive manner. As a group, we provide one-on-one assistance to students during independent programming time and lecture the classrooms as a whole.

VandyApps

Corporation Liaison

As Liaison, I organize technology talks and events with STEM faculty regarding their different areas of scientific study, collaborate with various STEM-related student organizations on campus, such as National Society of Black Engineers, Women in Computing, to promote minority involvement in computer science I have also organized a joint event for Capital One at general body meeting centered around a tech talk and recruitment. VandyApps has remained one of my favorite involvements on campus.