Creative Labs Learning Center

Teaching, tutoring, and building the next generation of creators.

The Story

My mom started Creative Labs Learning Center to give kids a space to learn and create. I've been part of it since the beginning — teaching coding basics, running summer camps, and tutoring students who need extra help. A lot of my students have special needs (Autism, Asperger's), and I became a program liaison connecting low-income families to resources they didn't know existed.

What I love about teaching is that it forces you to break down every step. If a 10-year-old asks "but why does the loop start at zero?", you better have a real answer. Teaching math and code is teaching logic — and if you can't explain why something is true, you don't actually understand it.

What I Do

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Coding Workshops

Teaching elementary students the basics of programming — loops, conditionals, functions. Breaking down abstract logic into something visual and concrete.

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Special Needs Tutoring

Working one-on-one with students who have Autism or Asperger's. Math and coding are patterns, and patterns are teachable when you find the right approach.

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Summer Camp Counselor

Running week-long camps where kids build games, animations, and interactive projects. The best way to learn is to make something that works.

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Program Liaison

Connecting low-income families to educational resources. Not just tutoring — helping families access opportunities they didn't know existed.

What I've Learned From Teaching

  • Explaining something simply is harder than understanding it yourself.
  • Kids are fearless with code. They'll try things adults would never attempt.
  • Teaching is the fastest way to find gaps in your own knowledge.

Ponix Hydroponics

Through Creative Labs, we received a USDA grant via Ponix to build hydroponic towers on site. I designed and built the systems, then used regression models to calculate the ideal nutritional growth environments — NPK ratios, pH levels, light cycles.

We grew lettuce and distributed it to food drives. The math wasn't theoretical — it was trial and error meets regression analysis. Every harvest was a data point. Every adjustment was a hypothesis test. The plants either grew or they didn't. Math made the difference.

The Connection

Teaching forces you to break math down to first principles. You can't fake understanding when a kid asks "why." Hydroponic modeling is applied statistics — regression analysis in real time. Teaching and growing plants are both about finding the variables that actually matter.

That's why I build interactive math visualizations — I want to see concepts click for people the same way they click for me when I can see them visually. When a student finally understands why a loop starts at zero or how pH affects nitrogen uptake, that moment of clarity is what keeps me building tools that make learning visible.

See My Math Explorations →