@zrl2Day 3:
Sadly still sick :-(
Today was a travel day. Drove from HQ in Vermont to NYC for Parthenon.
So excited for Parthenon tomorrow!!! Picture: the team arriving at Google’s NYC offices for a panel before the hackathon tomorrow.
@Azzy-U08PLHD4L2J150 days challenge ❄️ Daily update #1: November 11, 2025 | Streak: 1 day :3
Stuff I did for my goals
• I finally figured out Riemann sums! Attached is a picture of my successful work after a long time of toil and not getting what this is bro (everyone says I'm a natural 'slowpoke' at math)
• I worked on redesigning social media posts for a small news organization I'm a director for, to stand out more and take less time to create each week!
• It was snowing and really cold but I went out for a run and got 5,000 steps! (not including during the day because I use my phone to track steps and can't have phones at school. but in general I don't exercise much since I'm a couch potato and I want to change that)
Productive stuff in general (kind of fulfills goal #1 to work on what "serves me")
• I completed my AP economics homework a day early
• I did my university chemistry homework 2 weeks early
• I made a 10 page study guide for my AP bio unit test and reviewed lecture slides, attached a preview of my study guide because I'm happy with it
• I wrote two 1,000 word essays for an application to represent my school at the board of education
Nice stuff
• I went to study at the cafe today and got a croque monsieur bread
• There was a nice deal for a slice of green tea cake and a latte for $9 so I got those for tomorrow's study treat
• Me and my friend's project involving building a plane is showing signs of life (the prototype is looking promising)
• I got to know a kid in this AP computer science principles class that I'm the teaching assistant for and bro is in calculus in 9th grade...
@zrl2Day 2 update:
Sadly I'm still sick and I didn't get as much as I wanted done.
Did a small amount of prep for Parthenon this weekend. So excited! My sister baked cookies in my house for every attendee, so it smelled like cookies all day.
Had a meeting with a partner to talk about some 2025 plans. I'm trying to get all the orgs that care about coding to align on helping people make actually real projects - and Hack Club can help with that.
Did some thinking on dashboarding. We really need a good way to understand how all the current fall 2025 programs are tracking. We had that for summer and don't have that now.
Reviewed our 990 before filing it and gave the last round of edits before it's submitted.
Did a little bit of thinking on how to better surface and communicate awesome projects by Hack Clubbers. When you make an awesome project - whether you're a beginner or really advanced - you should feel super celebrated by the community. It's also important that projects are curated in some way for the community - or else it can feel like everything is slop. When the truth is if 20% of projects are not super high quality (everyone starts somewhere) but there are just a lot of projects overall, those 20% feel like 100% of the projects.
I'm almost wondering if something like Hacker News but for Hack Clubber projects could be cool. Or some other way to explore really cool things. Here's one really cool project by a Hack Clubber for Summer of Making I saw for the first time today: github.com/SamoZ256/hydra
And that's kind of all for today. Leaving at 6:30 AM tomorrow to drive to NYC for Parthenon. So excited!
