Hi! this page is about me!
Updated 12/23/2024
My name is Leo Norton in default reality. I'm 19 years old and am a sophomore at Northeastern
University! I'm from the hippie-outdoorsy-beautiful town of Boulder, Colorado. I have way too many projects
in programming, designing, and building things! I've been
programming since I was programming javascript and a kid ambasador for a programming startup called BitsBox
in 4th grade (maybe a little before that as well). I love programming games, I do almost all of them in
Unity.
In recent years,
I've been getting into electronics. Everyone thought I would major in C.S. but I decided that I wanted to
work with my hands a bit more and went into electrical engineering! I also love making art including my
costumes, and other art which can be found in the MISC section. Every intellectual pursuit should have a
little art mixed in!
Leadership Positions
In high school, I spent a full calendar year programming Cowboy Hell and started NortWare LLC in 2023.
Afterward, I went on to run our school's game development club. In college, I was lucky enough to aquire
a team in our "Game Studio Club" to help me on the next big game, HEQET! Apart from managing this team,
I am also acting president of the unicycling club, facilities manager of the glorious: "Wireless Club",
and treasurer of Bluegrass Club. I also run electronics workshops which are put on by
Wireless Club, Northeastern IEEE, and Northeastern Electric Racing. During these workshops,
we teach hundreds of students
Apart from that, I also attend sewing club, game development club(different from
game studio), and some others. I previously managed the electrical engineering team for Theme Park
Engineering Club as we constructed a Skeeball machine.
Non-Technical Stuff
Outside of academics, I love to roller skate! I have been roller skating since first grade and use it
every day as transportation. I have spent a decade skiing and you can catch me doing extreme terrain in
the winter time. I unicycle a lot and am always working on my technique while managing Unicycle Club! I have
done a ton of scuba diving and have four different specialty certifications (will soon have my "dive
master" certification!).
I am a big burner, not just that I like to light things on fire, but I love the Burning
Man festival. This summer will be my 7th time there. A bunch of my projects are inspired by Black Rock
City.
I
play the guitar, mandolin, and banjo and have been playing for around four years. I exclusively listen
to and play the genre of "folk-punk". Don't ask me why or look that up.
Professional Work!
In 7th and 8th grade I was employed at a small virtual reality software startup called Reality Garage. I
made one of those VR museum exhibits and competed in the NIST CHARIoT challenge on a few-person team! We
won
an award for "Most Creative Method of Interation With AR Prototype".
In 11th grade I worked at NIST in the PML lab
in Boulder, making a
remote-analog-voltage-driver-for-high-speed-polarization-switches (crazy). That was for a quantum
entanglement test. In 12th grade, I switched teams and continued to work at NIST on
quantum-optical-to-microwave-transduction-for-superconducting-quantum-computers! On man these are tongue
twisters.
Last summer, I worked at NREL in Golden, CO, implementing a system to model energy grid loads for
hydrogen cell fueling for medium/heavy-duty vehicles. I added and published this feature to an existing,
well used, modeling software called EVI-Ensite.
If you are an interested employer, you're welcome to check this out:
My resume