Hello, I'm Ollie Young. Since a young age, I've allways been intested in coding, electronics, computers, engernerring, and maths.
This is my collection of projects and achivements I've done so far.
Sorry for the atrosious spelling, it's not my strong suit...
Contents:
●General
●Github projects
●Electrical engeerneering
●Acedemics and athletics
General
Throughout all my school years, I was allways the computer kid. When there was a computer problem, it was "Ollie!". I think my interest started when I was quite young, and allways had been intrested in logical systems. When I started to learn about the ins and outs of a computer, I was fasinated. With my Dad as a IT person, it was a catalyst for my curiosity and creativity for computers to grow.
In year 7, when I was 11, my STEM teacher, Mr Rowe, was one of my best teachers I've ever had. He was supportive, kind, and very knowlangeable. He got a tech company called Norrcom to come and teach us electronics, but only a few people got into the club.
He hosted an audition for it, which was to use scratch (Somthing I was very familiar with as it was where I started coding) to make a project. Anything, just to show you were interested.
This is what I made in a week:
After I submitted the project with him, he called me in one lunch to ask me if I had really coded this all myself. I said yes, as it was completely the truth.
Once I got into college, I discoverd the Scratch International Olympiad, and this was my submisson I made in a few weeks time.
Simalar to this time, I used unity to play a chinese board game I played alot with my grand parents.
Github
You can find my github here.
Since I created my github account when I was 8, I have made many projects about low level coding, microcontrollers, HTML pages, and video games I made.
While in my first few years of using it, I put up random HTML I was experiments with (Ivé allways loved messing around with stuff)
but recently have put in many projects I am quite proud of.
32 bit C kernel to ISO
In 2025, when I was 13, I made this low level script which turns 32 bit protected mode C kernel file into a iso file using GRUB. In this example, I made a fully functional tree chopping game, which I coded myself. When you run this script, it compiles the file, links it, then builds it with GRUB. I made a collection of code for this, and also a small collection of scripts in one ISO file (I called it OllieISO), which you can see of the next slide.
Electrical engernering
Continuing on with my Norcom story, we had an introductory session where we learned about electricity and breadboards.
I instantly took aliking to it, learning about resisters, volts and amps, and the programming aspect of it, which was my favrioute.
After being intoduced to it all, that christmas I got a Arduino uno starter kit I spet hours tinkering with. Learning the syntax, buying aliexpress modules, it was a whole new world.
By the time I was 14, (Which is when I wrote this) I had much knowlange on the subject and was designing PCBs and making actually practical projects.
While this is a simpler project, I like it as it dosn't look like there's anything special about this, untill you switch it on: