About the Team
Technology & Leadership
Skylar Tom
Skylar serves as Computer Engineering Lead at EqOpTech. He is a senior at Los Altos High School, an Eagle Scout and a member of his school's Track and Field team.
In addition to supporting his Boy Scouts troop in conservation projects for the local community, he also looks forward to contribute in the area of technology to benefit families in need. He is a member of our technical team to help drive computer-related initiatives.
Projects:
- Computer refurbishing, including Windows, Macbooks and Tablets
- Computer deployment
- Refurbish Chromebooks to install Alpine-based and Debian-based Linux distributions
Alan Xu
Alan serves as Computer Engineering Intern at EqOpTech. He is a senior at Homestead High School. He plans to major in CS and hope to broaden his computer skill set while serving the community.
Projects:
- Research lightweight Linux for older laptops
- Refurbish Chromebooks to install Alpine-based and Debian-based Linux distributions
- Help document online tutorial and sharing troubleshooting notes with the Linux team
Jonathan Fei
Jonathan is a high school senior at Homestead High School with a passion for STEM. He serves as Computer Engineering Intern at EqOpTech. He enjoys building and designing Lego models and assembling various other things, like furniture and Metal Earth models. Jonathan plans to pursue either a physics or engineering major and looks forward to the opportunity to give back to the community while also enrich his engineering experience. He is also a boy scout working on his Eagle Scout Service Project.
Projects:
- Research lightweight Linux for older laptops
- Refurbish Chromebooks to install Alpine-based and Debian-based Linux distributions
- Help document online tutorial and sharing troubleshooting notes with the Linux team
Arshia Aggarwal
Arshia, a senior at Los Altos High School, serves as computer intern at EqOpTech supporting app development and laptop troubleshooting. She is interested in the field of STEM, mainly computer science. Applying the coding skills gained with her AP CS, and other online coding courses, she is currently working on an app development project to track volunteer hours at EqOpTech,
She enjoys working with kids as she gives back to the community. She also likes to swim, play the guitar, and sing.
Projects:
- App development
- Troubleshooting laptops
Lucas Yeykelis
Lucas serves as Computer Engineering Intern at EqOpTech. A Los Altos High School student, he really enjoys athletics and likes to participate in technology such as coding, designing, and business. Lucas has an interest in computer science and by interning in EqOpTech, he hopes to gain hands on work experience and knowledge in the field of computers and engineering.
Projects:
- Refurbish Windows laptops for distance learning
- Refurbish Chromebooks to install Alpine-based and Debian-based Linux distributions
Lucy Kralevich
Lucy serves as Computer Engineering Intern at EqOpTech. She attends Los Altos High School. She runs cross country and enjoys swimming for PASA. In her free time she enjoys hiking. She has always been passionate in STEM and likes to create things with her hands. At a young age she would always to try to help her dad with fixing the computers or creating home automation software. Lucy believes that technology is the best way to create a better world for everyone. And she looks forward in helping the local community by improving the technology and communication.
Projects:
- Linux-based Chromebooks including installation and quality testing
- Manage deployment of refurbished laptops to end-user recipients
Oluwajoba Idowu
Joba serves as Computer Engineering Intern at EqOpTech. He attends Los Altos High School and aside from study, he enjoys playing video games, chess, basketball and soccer. By volunteering at EqOpTech, Joba (a very eager learner) hopes to explore Computer Hardware, an area he has interest, but little skill. He is particularly interested in laptop refurbishment and software upgrades. and a whole lot more.
Projects:
- Refurbish Windows laptops, Macbooks for distance learning
- Refurbish Chromebooks to install Alpine-based and Debian-based Linux distributions
Alvin Zhao
Alvin is the class of 2024 at Homestead High School. He serves as Computer Engineering intern at EqOpTech. Aside from school, he goes to the gym with friends, practices his saxophone, and cooking. He is always interested and excited to try new things.
Alvin has been taking coding classes for a while but would like to learn and expand his hardware skills from building stuff and playing with Legos as a child to now building pcs.
Projects:
- Refurbish Chromebooks to install Alpine-based and Debian-based Linux distributions
Shubh Mehta
Shubh attends Los Altos High School and is interested in pursuing Mechanic Engineering. He hopes to leverage his own computer refurbishing skills to help the community as he has a computer business where he builds and sells computers to pay for college.
Projects:
- Refurbish Windows laptops for distance learning
- Refurbish Chromebooks to install Alpine-based and Debian-based Linux distributions
Operations & Leadership
Kevin Fei
Kevin, a sophomore at Homestead High serves as a core leader in running EqOpTech operations, including social media, PR etc. He enjoys singing, playing piano, and composing music. He also plays basketball. Kevin enjoys leadership as part of his school class cabinet and loves to contribute to his community. He is interested in learning more about business and management. By working at EqOpTech, he looks forward to the opportunity to work with people and learn more about how an organization runs.
Projects:
- Blogging, social media
- Work with local media sources
- Corporate donation campaign
Sydney Tung
Sydney serves as blogger at EqOpTech. She plans to major in a STEM field, and hopes to expand her knowledge of computer science while simultaneously creating change in the local community.
Sydney attends Los Altos High School. Aside from school work, she is passionate about helping others and creating change in the community. She enjoys reading, writing, working with kids, and dance.
Projects:
- Blogging project: Virtual Tech Workshop - How to replace hard drives
- Computer refurbishing project
Digital Marketing/Communications
Connor Song
Connor is a senior at Eastern High School in Connecticut. He played golf for the LAHS varsity golf team and runs his own YouTube channel. In his free time he enjoys videography, video editing, and magic.
Projects:
- Help recruit guest speakers
Mentors and Advisors
Terence Lee
Terence Lee is founder of EqOpTech and a senior at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Inspired by his Eagle Scout Project to recycle, refurbish and redeploy unwanted computers, he founded EqOpTech to enable free, equal opportunity access to technology, resources and workshops to help educate underserved students.
To further engage more students to learn on a global scale, Terence is exploring automation using machine learning and artificial intelligence to engineer a computer system to teach students in an engaging, interactive, and adaptive way.
Randall Lowe
Randall Lowe serves as EqOpTech's Technology Advisor. Randall is our technology guru, our go-to person for computer tech issues.
He is especially dedicated to helping disadvantaged kids to excel in STEM education, supporting both the laptop refurbishing as well as leading and teaching the STEM workshop, Hour of Code and Khan Academy mentoring programs at Sunday Friends.
Nasir Naqvi
Nasir serves as Tech Advisor at EqOpTech, an alum of Los Altos High School and Eagle Scout candidate. His favorite classes were Math and Robotics, where he was a member of FRC Team 114 who went to Houston Championships in 2019. He is an active member in Boy Scouts Troop 31 and enjoys running cross country for LAHS. Having worked with electronics, assembly, and design in the past, Nasir is excited to continue to help underserved kids in our community.
Nasir undertook
Projects:
- Eagle Service Project to plan and lead a team to collect, research, train, troubleshoot and revive old Chromebooks with Linux and deploy to those in need
- Refurbish Chromebooks to install Alpine-based and Debian-based Linux distributions
Alice Liu
Alice Liu serves as Advisor at EqOpTech. She is a Los Altos High School Alum and has a passion for STEAM as well as writing, sports, and activism. She enjoys coding and being able to find unique ways to solve problems with technology as well as being able to incorporate many sides of design and creativity into it. Alice believes in giving back to her community and is looking forward to using her skills and helping out.
Publications:
- Thanks to AI in the classroom: the future is now
- A Virtually New World - VR, AR, AI joining forces
- Back to the Future Classroom: VR/AR/AI Transformation
- Microsoft/EqOpTech Machine Learning, AI Talk
Blogging project:
- 2019 College Talk & Student Panel
- Tackling College Admissions Amid COVID-19
EqOpTech Alumni - Thank you for your service!
Cedric Chan
Cedric supported Operations at EqOpTech during 2021-22. He is a Los Altos High School Alum and has been volunteering with EqOpTech since 9th grade, assuming various responsibilities, including refurbishing & deploying old laptops, blogging, digital designing of marketing collaterals and videography. He is an Eagle scout from Troop 31.
Projects:
- EqOpTech Delivers Laptops to Students in Need Through Pandemic
- EqOpTech internship Application
- Refurbished Laptops for Distance Learning Youtube Video
- Laptop refurbishing and deployment projects including Castro, Monta Loma, Santa Rita, & Almond schools
Justin Chou
Justin Chou served as a core leader in EqOpTech’s digital marketing and technology team. He spearheaded the video production and collaborates with the tech team on various tech projects including application development.
Justin is a Los Altos High School Alum. In his free time, he enjoys video-making, golf, and watching sports. Having worked with electronics and in assembly in the past, Justin is excited to help underserved kids.
Projects:
- Video editing and production
- Computer refurbishing
Joshua Kung
Joshua Kung served as graphic designer in EqOpTech’s digital marketing team, spearheading digital marketing and advertising projects including events graphics design, marketing collateral design and video editing projects.
Joshua is a Los Altos High alum who likes to creatively express himself through various types of artwork such as writing and Photoshop. He enjoys playing sports such as basketball and is a competitive track athlete.
Projects:
- Graphic Design e.g. College Talk Flyer, Refurbishing Workshop Flyer, College-Bound Laptops Flyer
- Company Logo/Banner redesign
- Video Editing & Production
- Chromebook Refurbishing
Trevor Smith
Trevor Smith served as President and the resident tech expert at EqOpTech during 2020-21. As a rising freshman at Reed College, he enjoys coding, robotics, and LARP. He started to learn to program by using GameMaker and then moved on to use Python, Scratch, JavaScript, and Java.
Trevor has been volunteering with EqOpTech since middle school and has been instrumental in refurbishing old laptops using Mac, Windows, CloudReady, Linux OS and using firewire to revive decade old macs.
Trevor is also fluent in Spanish and enjoys teaching and deploying refurbished laptops to undeserved school children.
Projects:
- Mac OS Firewire (Lead)
- Cloudready/Lexia (Lead)
- Chromebook powerwashing
- Linux Firewire Installation, Mac based Ubuntu/Lubuntu Installation, Chromebook Refurbishing
Aditya Jaiswal
Aditya is a student at University of Texas, Austin. He served as computer engineering intern during 2020-21. He is an Eagle Scout from Troop 457, a Speech and Debater, and a Varsity Track & Field athlete. Aditya performed research on rockets with a professor at San Jose State University and enjoyed building his own drone as a personal project and for science fairs.
Projects:
Eagle Scout Brings New Life into Used Laptops During the Pandemic for Local Students
Edison Tom
Edison Tom served as Engineering Lead Intern at EqOpTech. He attends Boston University and is an Eagle scout from Troop 37. He also plays on the JV/Varsity Badminton Team, violin in the School Orchestra and piano.
Edison has a strong passion in computer technology, even built his own gaming computer with some help from his father. He is looking forward to use his learn-by-doing computer skills to help students in need. In his free time, he enjoys movies, camping, hiking, and of course, computer gaming with his friends.
Projects:
- Family Refurbished Laptop Program Leader
- Eagle Scout Breathes New Life into Old Laptops To Bridge Learning Gap during Pandemic
Sarah Yung
Sarah served as EqOpTech’s editor, marketing communications during 2019-20. She attends Northwestern University and enjoys science topics and sharing what she's learned with her friends. In her free time, she likes creative writing and drawing, and is currently teaching herself how to code. She is passionate about math, music, and helping others.
Publications:
- Machine Doctors and Disease Detectives
- Full Circle: Turning E-waste to E-resources
Blogging project:
- EqOpTech Experiences New Growth
Daniel Lim
Daniel Lim is a student of UC Berkeley. He served as President during 2019-20. He is a computer language specialist in Java, JavaScript and Python. He enjoys breaking down difficult concepts into mini lessons to teach children how to code.
Projects:
- Helping At-risk Students in Silicon Valley Get Technology at Home
- Laptop giveaway supports students lacking computer access
- EqOpTech Deploys Refurbished Laptops to East Palo Alto Students
Kevin Gao
Kevin Gao serves as EqOpTech adviser and a student at UC Berkeley majoring in Computer Science. He served as President of EqOpTech during 2018-19. His favorite subjects are statistics and computer science.
Kevin also has a passion for chess and piano, and is a member of GYP, a nonprofit piano organization that fund raises money for third world countries, as well as being the VP of his school’s chess club. In his free time, he enjoys coding, building robots, and watching hockey.
Projects:
Eric Che
Eric is a student at UC Berkeley, an avid musician who plays piano and clarinet as well as a sub 20 speed cuber. He was also a part of Robotics team, participating in FRC robotics competition.
Ever since middle school, he has been very curious when it comes to tech and would find taking apart and putting it back together very amusing. He especially enjoys repairing and overhauling laptops as well as applying his skills to contribute to underserved community.