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Attached is a presentation given in 2005 on "Combinatorial Search in Hex Game".

In the 8th grade and 9th grade my dad created a computer curriculum and we studied it every Saturday. Topics included C++ and Java programming, data structures, object-oriented design, databases, and web applications. Textbooks used included: Core Java 2, by Horstmann and Cornell (Prentice-Hall, 1999), and Visual C++ In Record Time by Holzner (1998), Computer Games by Hartnell (1989), and Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages by Hall (Prentice-Hall, 2000)

The CERT organization in Palo Alto is called "PANDA": Palo Alto Neighborhood Disaster Awareness.

I qualified for the team in January 2007, and completed training in February 2007.

The training curriculum included:

• Emergency medical procedures
• Triage
• Radio protocols
• Fire suppression
• Search and rescue
• Earthquake procedures including helping people trapped under rubble
• Disaster psychology
• Team organization

At Menlo School, May 2005