Hi, we're the SPEEDers, a group of high school students passionate about physics and STEM. We hail from Andover High School and the Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science and want to be active contributors to ongoing research in physics instead of merely observers.

Richard Chen

Richard is a 12th grade student at Andover High School. His interests include space physics, geophysics, and particle physics, but he also loves cats, crocheting, and cooking (in the literal and metaphorical sense). He also plays the piano and trombone!

Richard's patron physicist is Richard Feynman.

Jaiden Li

Jaiden is a 12th grade student at Andover High School. She enjoys learning languages of both the human and non-human variety (no, not Parseltongue), writing, and web design. She plans to double major in Computer Science and Linguistics in college.

Jaiden's patron physicist is Marie Curie.

Samyak Jain

Samyak is a 12th grade student at Andover High School. When he's not tutoring kids in math and physics, you can find him going down rabbit holes in quantum physics, machine learning, and history. He plays cello and has been doing taekwondo for more than 14 years.

Samyak's patron physicist is Satyendra Nath Bose.

Niranjan Nair

Niranjan is an 11th grader at the Massachusetts Academy for Math and Science. He enjoys reading, philosophy, inventing religions with co-conspirator Daniel, and jazz piano. His favorite subjects are physics and Computer Science, and he's also very passionate about Artificial Intelligence.

Niranjan's patron physicist is Edward Purcell.

Robert Zhu

Robert is an 11th grader at Andover High School. He's interested in a bunch of things - math, physics, history, linguistics, economics - and also plays the clarinet and piano. Robert would probably say that the convention of introducing yourself in this biographical format suppresses individuality and adds no linguistic novelty (to which I say: please get a non-Chromebook device so you can write your own bio, Robert).

Robert's patron physicist is Robert Oppenheimer.

Theo Buckridge

Theo is an 11th grader at Andover High School. His life is an examination into the duality of man - on one hand, he's the Pit Section leader of the Andover High School Golden Warrior Marching band playing electronic and double bass, but on the other hand, he's a math and physics NERD and could talk to you about his interests all day. (Particle-wave duality, let's go!)

Theo's patron physicist is Stephen Hawking.

Daniel Lin

Daniel is an 11th grader at Andover High School. He plays trumpet, is learning tuba, and currently sings in a hardcore band (though they've only met to practice once). He enjoys philosophy, reading, computer science, anthropology, and inventing religions (with co-conspirator Niranjan).

Daniel's patron physicist is Pavel Cherenkov.

Hari Palaniyappan

Hari is an 11th grader at Andover High School. He founded an AI-powered fashion company and loves "making stuff." In his free time, he likes walking his dog and playing the guitar and piano.

Hari's patron physicist is Enrico Fermi.