JackPickett
Junior · Menlo School
I like to build stuff.
I'd rather make something than talk about it. I start things, I finish them, and then I go find something bigger. Apps, machines, teams, whatever's next.
Flight log
the journey so far Eight legs · Hillview to now-
Hillview Middle School
Robotics team, JV tennis and the Buddy program. Robotics is where I first wrote C++ and got hooked on making things work.
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Kids Ministry Leader
At New Community Church in Menlo Park I run interactive learning stations and lead small groups for younger kids.
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Cleared
Menlo School
Started high school. Football, lacrosse, soccer and golf on the field. Python and C in the classroom.
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Zellen Design
A friend and I started Zellen Design, a company building websites for local businesses like landscapers and plumbers. We wrote our own algorithm and app to find businesses that needed a site and connect with them, then designed and built the sites ourselves. Along the way we learned cold calling, pricing, closing deals and working as a team. We wrapped it up in early 2026 to start on something new.
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Lifeguard & camp counselor
Summers at Menlo Circus Club. Keeping the pool safe, handling emergencies, and running the day for a crew of campers.
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Google AI certificates
Earned the Google AI Professional Certificate and AI for App Building, covering prompt engineering and agentic workflows. Eleven certifications so far.
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Classified
Stealth startup
Working on something new that I can't talk about yet. it does a very cool thing
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Junior year
Juggling school and sports while I build my startup, ship Splatter and keep learning how businesses actually grow.
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Locker room
five sports and counting Fall, winter and spring seasonsLacrosse
Soccer
Golf
Tennis
Football in the fall, lacrosse in the spring, soccer and golf in between. Tennis is where it started back at Hillview.
What I'm into
off the field11certs
01 · AI
I use AI to build things I couldn't build alone yet. This summer I finished Google's AI Professional Certificate and AI for App Building.
Early access · Beta Instinct Invite-only AI agent · I'm in before launch Use my invite ↗02 · Business
How companies start, find customers and make money. I want to understand the whole picture, not just the product.
03 · Engineering
Robotics in middle school, Python and C now. I like knowing how things work, from a line of code to the jet engine on that plane up top.
The hangar
stuff I've built
In development
Splatter
2026 · iPhone app
The family cookbook. Snap a photo of a stained, handwritten recipe card and Splatter turns it into a clean recipe your whole family can share, scale and cook from, with the original card kept alongside it.
getsplatter.com ↗
Completed
Kinetic Pinwheel
2025 · Mechanical Engineering · Menlo
Two laser-cut flywheels spin in opposite directions on a 120 RPM motor to create an optical illusion, backlit by LEDs behind a diffuser. I modeled every part in CAD, dado-cut the wood box, wired the electronics and built a magnetic back panel over nine build days.
Read the build report ↗
Completed
3D model · drag to spin
Robo-Hoop
2026 · ME/EE final project · Menlo
A full-size arcade basketball game built with a partner for our mechanical and electrical engineering final. The hoop rides back and forth on rails so every shot is a moving target, with a net to catch misses and a ramp that rolls the ball back to you.
Watch the video ↗
In development
Vanish
2026 · Hardware · USB-C
A pocket-sized device that plugs into your phone over USB-C and sets its location to anywhere in the world. Carry it with you and your phone reports wherever you tell it to.
Sayhello.
- Work email
- jack@jackpickett.com
- Personal email
- jacktpickett@gmail.com
- Phone
- 650-250-2041