Laasya Aki

This is my personal site where I make blog posts, detail my STEM pursuits, and share what I find cool.

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Projects

Dynamic Memory Allocator

This is a dynamic memory allocator built in C to mimic the existing malloc() function. I used doubly linked lists to execute the project.

Technovation 2024 - Competition

Technovation Girls is an app-building contest where teams create an app to solve a problem. This competition also ties in a business aspect where teams have to create a pitch video along with the app. My team, Diabuddies, created a bloog sugar management app specifically targeted towards children. The features included a game to learn more about diabetes, an info page with different quizzes and challenges, a blood sugar level tracker, and a tree which grew based on points earned for interacting with the app and having healthy glucose levels.

CODEify

CODEify website

I co-founded CODEify to make coding education accessible and inspire a love of technology in young children. We want to increase the representation of women, racial minorities, and other marginzalized groups in technology. We have worked with other non-profits like the Minnesota Technological Association, the JP4 Foundation, and the Minnesota Institute for Nigerian Development. As part of this organization I have tutored some of the coding classes we offer, written blogs, and promoted our mission within different communities. I have also helped develop our curriculum and I have coded our website.

Technovation 2023 - Competition

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Technovation Girls is an app-building contest where teams create an app to solve a problem. This competition also ties in a business aspect where teams have to create a pitch video along with the app. My team, Team Velocity, is creating an app to identify diseases in crops using machine learning. A user takes a picture of a crop and our app will identify the disease (or if it is healthy) based on a classification performed by our machine learning model.

Wordle Clone

Github repo

I created a clone of the game Wordle using python. This project proved to be trickier than I thought it would be. While the concept of the game was simple, developing an algorithm for certain parts was a learning expirience. Including special cases for words with duplicate letters was probably the hardest part. I learned more about program flexibility from this project.

Huffman Encoder/Decoder

Github repo

In this project I implemented different data structures in Java, focusing on a custom binary search tree made to encode and decode different text files with Huffman encoding.

AP Computer Science Principles Create Task

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My program for the AP Computer Science Principles Create Task portion of the exam.

Modeling the Future 2022-2023 - Competition

Click here for our research paper.

Modeling the Future is an actuarial math modeling contest where teams answer questions based on a scenario and dataset. The team also creates a project proposal for a data analysis research project. If selected as semi-finalists, the team will go on to create the project outlined in their proposal. My team, the Significant Errors, made it to semi-finalists and we research rising rates of melanoma cancer in Americans. We used SEER data to make predictions about future melanoma incidence rate trends and issued recommendations to combat this problem.