This is good! I really appreciate it when younger people get attention for actually also knowing things like this. If I recall correctly according to Mark Kosters at ARIN, I was the first person to successfully setup delegated RPKI in ARIN (in production) at the start of 2020 at age 18. This is also why I think some of the discussions going on in NANOG atm are potentially quite good to have. I have seen many of the younger people in this scene (including Nate) on Discord with regards to these kinds of topics. And while Discord is not at all a replacement for mailing lists in my opinion, I think it's important to realize that it (and other chat based things like it) have their place, especially among the younger groups. -Cynthia On Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 22:26 NANOG News <news@nanog.org> wrote:
We’d be hard pressed to name many teenagers as thoughtful, curious, and open to new experiences as Nate Sales. Now in his junior year at the Catlin Gabel School in Portland, Oregon, he has already built, designed, and engineered more than most people twice his age. Nate not only manages his school’s robotics team, he also developed an app to track on-campus movement during COVID 19, coordinates radio communications for the Amateur Radio Emergency Service, is a Reliability Engineer at Fosshost, and sits on the advisory board of the Emerald Onion — a Seattle nonprofit and encrypted transit ISP.
We spoke with Nate recently about his path into tech, and his experience presenting at a NANOG conference, where he was — to our collective knowledge — the youngest to ever do so. What struck us most was his curiosity and willingness to build, dismantle, and rebuild again in the name of new discoveries and greater insights; an ethos all of us could stand to learn from.
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