about us
>>> overview
We are Thomas Jefferson High School (TJHSST) graduates and rising college freshmen, all majoring in computer science.
As a whole, we've served as leaders on TJHSST's highly successful Computer Team, where we've educated and inspired our club members on their computer science journeys. We've created and given countless lectures ranging from sorting to suffix automata, practice problems for our in-house contests, and spent hours in front of the whiteboard to figure out what works best to understand these topics. We've won many first and second place awards at competitive programming competitions hosted by UPenn, UMD, UVA, VCU, etc.
We're also some of the top AI competitors in the world. In MIT Battlecode 2024, we won 1st in the HS division and ranked second overall among college and post-graduate teams. We were finalists in Correlation-One's HS Terminal competition. And among TJHSST's schoolwide AI competition itself, our bot is at a caliber beyond all current students, only neck-to-neck with one contender in the history of TJHSST AI.
That isn't to say we don't have experience outside of computer science. Some of us have been leaders or competitors in TJ's Varsity Math Team, Science Olympiad, Physics Team, even Writing Center - just to name a few.
We are here to bring you a culmination of our experiences - to share with you the tricks to make CS addicting and the ways to think about abstract concepts intuitively.
>>> instructors
Munir Kudrati-Plummer
Munir is a first-year student at Purdue University.
Munir reached the Platinum division of the USA Computing Olympiad (USACO), and has won programming contests at UPenn and UMD. He loves groupwriting and groupsolving problems.
Munir has experience teaching as a TJHSST Senior Computer Team officer, a one-time Competitive Programming Initiative instructor, and a Summer Foundations of Computer Science TA.
Munir enjoys reading fiction and collecting riddles.
Daniel Qiu
Daniel is a Rising Freshman at Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science. He is a former Co-captain of Thomas Jefferson's Senior Computer Team and an officer of Thomas Jefferson's Computer Security Club.
Daniel is an experienced competitor and has won many competitions including MIT battlecode, winning $2000 from UMD's high school programming contest, UPenn's Pclassic, Berkeley's Calico, etc. He also has an extensive competitive math background including being an AIME qualifier and ARML participant.
He also has extensive teaching experience from tutoring at multiple organizations and being chosen by his counselor to tutor computer science to those struggling in CS at TJ.
He enjoys playing Tetris and Poker in his free time.
Johnny Liu
Johnny is a rising freshman at the University of Texas at Austin, part of the Turing Scholars program. He is a former Co-captain of TJ’s Senior Computer Team.
He has a robust academic background - USACO Platinum, placing 1st/120 in TJ’s schoolwide Othello AI tournament, and winning AI and competitive programming competitions like MIT Battlecode, UPenn’s PClassic, Berkeley’s CALICO, etc.
In addition, Johnny has extensive teaching and mentoring experience. He was the former head instructor for the robotics class at HCSTC, having taught more than 40 students, a TJ Writing Center Tutor, nominated to be a tutor spotlight, and also mentored at the FCPS Credit Recovery program.
He enjoys playing games like Roblox in his free time.
Max Wang
Max is a rising freshman studying computer science at the University of Maryland. He is the former Co-Captain of Science Olympiad at TJ and is also an Eagle Scout of Troop 652.
He has extensive leadership/teaching experience from mentoring at TJ and Longfellow's Science Olympiad clubs, years of leadership in Boy Scouts, and tutoring (up to college level) on the side.
He has strong academic competition experience - qualifying for National Science Olympiad several times, becoming a Candidate Master on Codeforces, winning MIT Battlecode and PClassic, 3rd place at HackMIT Blueprint, and being an A-team math competitor since middle school.
He enjoys playing games like Tetris and Mahjong (without gambling).