Hi, I'm Sukrut.
I'm happiest when I'm building something — a glider, a robot, a circuit, or a plan for a new school club. What I like most is the overlap: taking a physical machine and using code to make it think and react. My anchor is aerospace, and robotics and AI are how I'm learning to get there.
Accountability
When I mentor younger Taekwondo students, if one makes a mistake I didn't catch, that's on me. I take that seriously.
Perseverance
My first-degree black belt took three years; my second took another. Hard things take time, and I don't quit on them.
Technical Curiosity
I take things apart to understand them, then try to build them back better.
Community Leadership
I want to give back the same welcome I was given when I first arrived here.
I moved to the United States from India as a young child and started school in a new country. I knew some English, but not the culture or the slang. What I remember most is how kind everyone was — my classmates went out of their way to get to know me and make me feel like I belonged. That's a big part of why I try to do the same for others now.
I'm also relying on perseverance more than ever right now. I recently broke my ankle in a fall in the snow and needed emergency surgery that left me with two metal screws. Instead of letting my grades slip, I pushed through every day on the mend — because giving up was never an option.
Goals
Short term, I'm working toward a selective STEM high school with a strong engineering and computer-science track. Long term, I want to study aeronautical engineering at a top engineering university and design things that fly.