Inclusive youth basketball in Brooklyn — kids of all abilities, including kids with physical disabilities, all playing together. Run by Working Wonders Starting Home Inc. (WWSH), DYCD-funded, at Kings Bay YM-YWHA.

I coach an inclusive youth basketball program in Brooklyn — kids of all abilities, including kids with physical disabilities, all playing together. I help with emotional regulation, team dynamics, and the science of the game. I teach the kids how basketball connects to chess, to dance, to hula-hooping — all the cross-domain stuff. Started in February, still running every Sunday.

February 1, 2026 — ongoing. Most recent session April 13, 2026.

Youth chess program — but the chess board is just the starting point. I use it to teach cross-domain thinking, structured pattern recognition, and how the same shapes show up in totally different fields.

I teach kids chess through BeyondChess — but it's not just chess. The board is the starting point. I use it to teach cross-domain thinking, structured pattern recognition, how the same shapes show up in totally different fields. I'm also building out a curriculum to take this beyond chess into other subjects.

April 13, 2026 — ongoing.

Six months teaching elementary and middle schoolers how to build animations and games with Scratch and Unity. First time I taught kids tech — same instinct running today.

Before BeyondChess, I taught kids tech once before. Tech Corps in Columbus, Ohio — about six months across 2017 and 2018. Elementary and middle school students learning to make their own animations and games with Scratch and Unity. Same instinct as what I'm doing now — use the tool to stimulate deeper interest in technology, not just teach the tool. The pattern's been with me for a while.

August 2017 – January 2018

Mentor in DDC at Columbia — as a high schooler, I'd come after school to a classroom of middle schoolers and just be there with them. Talking, helping, being the older kid in the room.

There was another one — DDC, Double Discovery Center at Columbia University. I was a high schooler mentoring middle school students. After school, I'd go to the classroom with the teacher, and just be in the room with the kids. Talking with them, helping, being a high-school presence they could see and ask things. I can't remember exactly what we were doing in the curriculum sense, but I remember being there with them, and that part still feels right.

High school years (2014-2016 era)

Co-organized hackathons and tech-industry exposure events for 600+ NYC high schoolers. We connected and empowered the next generation of programmers.

Even further back — high school years, 2014 to 2016. I organized with The Young Hackers in NYC. We ran hackathons, field trips to tech companies, raised funds so everything was free. Reached over 600 high-school students. Partnered with Major League Hacking for Local Hack Day in 2014 and 2015. The teaching-other-kids-tech thread has been with me since I was a kid myself.

June 2014 – September 2016 (2 yrs 4 mos)

Builder for Phonix — building with a friend whose ideas I believed in, then teaching him how to build himself. Now we're working on teaching other people the same way.

Phonix — I'm the builder. The way it started: I was eating by myself at Tops Diner, working on my laptop. A waiter there saw what I was doing. He came over, we got talking, he had real ideas. I believed in them. Started building for him. Then taught him how to build himself. Now we're working on teaching other people the same way — building a community around it.

Ongoing.

Outside the programs, I build for people in my community for free — websites, apps, AI tools, automations — then teach them how to do it themselves so the next time they don't need me.

Outside of the programs, I build for people in my community for free. Whatever they need — a website, an app, an AI tool — I build it, then teach them how to do it themselves. The goal isn't the build. It's the building muscle that stays with them. The aim isn't to use AI for the sake of it. It's to teach how to think, how to see solutions, how to get from problem to result.

Ongoing — operating mode for several months.

An open-source framework I've been building for cross-domain thinking. A structured way of moving solutions between fields that don't usually talk to each other. The backbone of how I teach.

Underneath all of this I've been building a framework called CHIMERA — open-source, for cross-domain thinking. It's how I tie basketball to chess to dance to anything else — one structured way of seeing patterns across different fields. The teaching draws from it directly. If pressed: it's essentially an AI alignment framework that's also a teaching framework.

Ongoing — several months of work, public on GitHub.