Since 5th grade, I've been a part of the FIRST Community, and it has changed my outlook on the world around me. Moving from Lego robots, creating ones more than half my size has been transformative. When I first joined my high school team, I started as a programmer. I developed code to allow our robot to balance on a moving platform and built various components of the robot's chassis. I worked on a 400:1 gearbox system, enabling our robot to make ultra-quick and accurate movements, which contributed to a design award. Aside from building the robot, I realized I could make an even greater impact in the community. In tenth grade, I launched the Inclusivity. Awareness. Inspiration initiative focusing on STEM Education and environmental conservation. As of today, I’ve organized 60+ different community events, fostered 1100+ service hours, introduced 5000+ students to STEM, and cleaned over 1000lbs+ of marine waste through organizing events and pioneering initiatives. However, my largest involvement was founding the international talk show STEAM Sundays. Alongside members of my FRC team, we took on the challenge of how to make exciting videos that also focus on STEM learning. Getting started was difficult. There were limitations on how long we could film, scriptwriting issues, and uploading every Sunday was definitely a challenge. However, everything changed after our first video - we were pulling in hundreds of views. For ten more weeks, we released videos with CEOs of top design firms, the company that created the Las Vegas Sphere, and even international engineers working to create global STEM schools. However, it wasn’t the people we worked with but the audiences we affected. When doing STEM activities for underserved communities in NYC, students laughed along to the video’s bloopers. When working with students with special needs during the school year, it was a blast having them star in “mini-videos” and showcase the cool STEM toys they had built. Continuing the impact from STEAM Sundays into the new year, we are expanding to include more in-person episodes. We’re planning to spread STEM activities in-person in Kenya and around Asia with STEAM Sunday instructional videos fully run by high schoolers. We aim to make a greater international footprint while continually covering the latest STEM news and innovations through our guests. Through these efforts, we’ve grown the show to 10,000+ viewers, and we were recently selected as the Grand Winner of the National Optimum Innovators Community Impact Award. By aiding my team both mechanically and through service, we’ve competed at the World Championships for the past three years. With the knowledge, connections, and mistakes made from these experiences, I plan to major in mechanical engineering with plans to work in biomedical product design. I’ve been working on plans for a modular prosthesis that will increase accessibility and decrease cost for patients. To give a basic rundown of the device, it would comprise interchangeable modules that click onto a base module on the affected limb of the user. The modular design would include adjustable joints, limb length extensions, and attachments made for specific activities. A specific attachment could be made by taking a scan of the area and extrapolating the design into modeling software and using machine learning to create an attachment for the specific person based on other prosthetics. Additionally, open-sourcing the software would allow for local engineers or technicians in hospitals to create prosthetic devices in-house instead of going through shipping from a private company. All in all, my FIRST experience taught me effective collaboration, gave me purpose, and inspired me to make a lasting impact.