WillieAvendano
Educator / Engineer / DJ / Builder — Miami, FL
I teach high school engineering at The Cushman School in Miami, build the tools I wish my classroom had, and play records after dark as Yung Algebra. Columbia-trained in operations research and computer science; Chilean-Colombian; Miami through and through.
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Teaching
High school engineering at The Cushman School — AP Statistics, PLTW engineering (design, principles, fundamentals), and a project-based CS math course. Makerspace culture, physical computing, and AI used deliberately: the teacher as orchestrator, not spectator.
▶ Agentic Teaching — a framework for the AI-orchestrated classroom. Coming soon.
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Projects
- QlassDeployed →
Open-source, self-hosted Google Classroom alternative. Next.js, Prisma, Postgres.
- Hermes / LifeOSIn the lab
Self-hosted personal operating system — an AI reasoning layer over calendar, tasks, notes, and home ops, running on a Mac mini in the living room.
- LunaClassroom
Proximity-reactive robot cat, built with my engineering students in VEX. She arches. She has opinions.
- Everything elseGitHub →
Curriculum tools, simulations, and whatever got built last weekend.
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Music
Yung Algebra
Disco · Balearic · Deep House · Soulful House · Boogie · Post-Disco · Brazilian Funk · Street Soul
Heard at Gramps, Faena, Dante's HiFi, Floyd, Soho Beach House, III Points, Jolene Sound Room, and Dream Vacation parties. Radio on Jolt. Roughly a thousand records at home and counting.
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Past Lives
01 — Miami education lab
Co-founder & executive director. Education experiments before it was a day job.
New-media art
Work shown at ICA Miami, HistoryMiami Museum, Satellite Art Show, and Locust Projects.
Wavemaker Grant, 2018
Experiment .001: FocusCoin & CryptoSymphonics — attention, blockchains, and sound.
CreativeMornings / Miami
Speaker, July 2019, Ampersand Studios.
Columbia University
Operations research & computer science. Still working through the Core reading list, one shelf at a time.