The Studio
Three files, three real things built. Open one below.
FirstDay
Western Ivey Summer Business Program, Team Capstone Project
The programs already exist, plenty of them. What actually keeps teens out is one feeling: if nobody I know is going, I’m not going either. We built FirstDay to fix exactly that: a tailored, searchable place for trial days and drop-in sessions, so trying something new doesn’t depend on already knowing someone on the inside.
“Nobody shows up alone on Firstday.”
Building this website is what got me teaching myself to code, and karate was the first place I pointed that new skill. Not two passions forced together for the sake of it, just two things I already cared about finally landing on the same page. FirstDay and Mind Over Media came from programs that handed me a team and a brief; Karate Log is the one I built entirely on my own, for people who actually use it every week.
FirstDay
Mind Over Media
Karate Log
If you want to get it done, just lock in. Karate Log went from a random idea to a working web app in one Saturday morning!
I learned you have to build something you're actually passionate about. Then it stops feeling like work and starts feeling genuinely fun, and that's exactly where you're most likely to succeed.