“Juan David was in the audience when I spoke at MIT LaunchX. It's an exceptionally competitive program to help high school entrepreneurs learn how to launch a company. While there were at least 100 people in the room, Juan David differentiated himself by following up, connecting with me on LinkedIn and telling me about his ambitions. And he's just 16. Wait world ... there's lots more to come from this exceptional, fine young man.”
About
The Jailbroken Guide to the University: juandavidcampolargo.com/jailbroken
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Experience
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Education
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Activities and Societies: The UIUC Talkshow, UIUCFreeFood, UIUCFreePianos, UIUCFreeFriends, Curiosity@Illinois, created my own major, taught myself how to play the piano and the guitar, learned to tame bureaucrats, ran two marathons, wrote over 100 essays on my website, and...
I wrote a book about the entire experience called The Jailbroken Guide to the University.
It will teach you how to get the most out of any university while having the most fun while also becoming fully alive. What else do you want? Oh, yes. You will also become jailbroken.
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Volunteer Experience
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Board Advisor / Volunteer
Naperville Public Library
- 2 years
Education
I'm a Board Advisor of TAG Team, which stands for Teen Leadership Team. The TAG Team is a group of teens in grades 6 through 12 who work together with teen librarians to make Naperville Public Library a better place for teens
I present new projects for the library programs and generate innovative ideas to implement in the library.
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Volunteer
TEDxNaperville
- 1 year
TEDx Naperville is a Chicago area innovative and disruptive ideas conference featuring Chicago area TEDx talks.
I contributed to the team’s marketing and social media efforts by creating an optimized digital marketing campaign. In this campaign, I tested different customer acquisition strategies.
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Entrepreneurship Mentor
WIT- Whatever It Takes
- 4 months
- Volunteered to help and mentor high school students with their startup ideas
- Helped them identify and develop their MVP (Minimum Viable Product)
- Provided guidance on different types of business models and customer acquisition strategies
Publications
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The Dangers of Aestheticized Education: A Return to Curiosity in a Curated World
Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
See publicationThis paper examines the growing tension between authentic curiosity and aesthetic performance in American higher education. Through personal experiences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, this work explores how the pressure to maintain appearances and create Instagram-worthy academic personas increasingly overshadows genuine intellectual curiosity. As social media and digital platforms reshape educational practices, students find themselves caught between the desire for deep…
This paper examines the growing tension between authentic curiosity and aesthetic performance in American higher education. Through personal experiences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, this work explores how the pressure to maintain appearances and create Instagram-worthy academic personas increasingly overshadows genuine intellectual curiosity. As social media and digital platforms reshape educational practices, students find themselves caught between the desire for deep learning and the perceived need to aestheticize their academic journey. This reflection argues that while visual appeal and presentation have their place, the prioritization of aesthetics over authentic engagement threatens to undermine the fundamental purpose of higher education.
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The Cheesy Energy of Lithium
See publicationAn Exploration of Lithium's Power in Batteries, Medicine, and Nuclear Physics
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Developing a Strategy for Creating Affordable Student Housing Solutions
See publicationHousing is one of the biggest issues of our time. Here's a strategy to creating profitable affordable housing at scale to help college students, homeless people, and seniors.
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Generation Optimism
New Degree Press
See publicationGeneration Optimism is a book about how to create the next generations of doers and dreamers.
Projects
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UIUC Free Food
- Present
See projectA Twitter bot I created during a late night after being bored with finals.
Free Food is cool and let's not waste it.
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Aqua Altum (Shell Ocean Discovery Xprize)
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See projectWe designed an object that XPRIZE will place on the seafloor at 4,000 meters beneath the sea surface as part of a high-tech underwater Treasure Hunt for the Finalist teams in the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE.
We designed an extremely durable recycled steel shell that not only is representative of the XPrize competition mission but is also the best object to prove the robots - something that is an absolute necessity for winning objects (which will be used to test the robots). Our object…We designed an object that XPRIZE will place on the seafloor at 4,000 meters beneath the sea surface as part of a high-tech underwater Treasure Hunt for the Finalist teams in the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE.
We designed an extremely durable recycled steel shell that not only is representative of the XPrize competition mission but is also the best object to prove the robots - something that is an absolute necessity for winning objects (which will be used to test the robots). Our object is well-rounded and made out of steel because, based on our extensive research and testing, this combination is best suited for survival under the extreme temperatures and pressures of the deep-sea.
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Carajo.org
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A platform to raise the aspirations of Venezuelan immigrants through the exposure and teaching of skills (with or without certifications) via Carajitos (digestible and comprehensive lessons).
Plataforma para elevar las aspiraciones de los inmigrantes venezolanos a través de la exposición y enseñanza de habilidades (con o sin certificaciones) mediante Carajitos (lecciones digeribles y comprensibles). -
Curiosity @ Illinois
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Find Classes by:
🔸 Building Name
🔹 Professor
🔸 Time
🔹 Section Type
In the most unusual places, you will find the most unexpected connections. Nourish the curious mind with "Curiosity @ Illinois": https://curiousillini.vercel.app/
We also made a short-film / ad, which went viral (over 500,000 people impressions across social media). Great! And not-so-great, we also won a meeting with the dean of engineering. "Wow you guys are so innovative. Thanks for making this."…Find Classes by:
🔸 Building Name
🔹 Professor
🔸 Time
🔹 Section Type
In the most unusual places, you will find the most unexpected connections. Nourish the curious mind with "Curiosity @ Illinois": https://curiousillini.vercel.app/
We also made a short-film / ad, which went viral (over 500,000 people impressions across social media). Great! And not-so-great, we also won a meeting with the dean of engineering. "Wow you guys are so innovative. Thanks for making this." Sorry, a parallel reality. In our reality, it was more like "Why did you make this? Can you take it down?"
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QR Code Generator
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See projectOne day my mom asked me to make her a QR code because some website was charging her monthly. I thought, "A QR code is just 1s and 0s. Why are they charging people?."
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UIUC Free Pianos
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An interactive and super fun musical map with all the pianos at UIUC. SOUND ON!!!!
THE STORY:
It was one of those days where I had no desire to do anything or feel excited about an idea, which is rare for me because the world is way TOO EXCITING!!!!! For a few weeks, or even a month, I hadn't done anything that made me feel truly alive. I wanted to change that with the right attitude. For me, that means following my curiosity and creating something with love. That's the story…An interactive and super fun musical map with all the pianos at UIUC. SOUND ON!!!!
THE STORY:
It was one of those days where I had no desire to do anything or feel excited about an idea, which is rare for me because the world is way TOO EXCITING!!!!! For a few weeks, or even a month, I hadn't done anything that made me feel truly alive. I wanted to change that with the right attitude. For me, that means following my curiosity and creating something with love. That's the story behind so many of my projects, including UIUCFreePianos.
I started around 10 PM that Tuesday night, playing music from Yo-Yo Ma, Stravinsky, Arijit Singh, Beethoven, The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto, Purcell, and Tchaikovsky. Now, I am about to launch UIUCFreePianos. By 11:56 AM on Wednesday, I had finished everything! YAY!
https://uiucfreepianos.vercel.app/about
Honors & Awards
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Extreme Engineering Challenge
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My team and I won a 24-hour non-stop competition.
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At Hope Scholarship
The Rotary Club of Naperville
The $1,000 “At Hope” scholarships specifically recognize and reward recipients' hopeful behavior in overcoming significant challenges during their high school careers. How one chooses to navigate and overcome life challenges demonstrates the character of the individual and the resolve for continued success.
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IBM Scholar / SRC URP
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By the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) with the Undergraduate Research Program (URP).
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Latinos 40 Under 40
Negocios Now
Negocios Now, a national award-winning publication based in Chicago, awards a list of Latinos 40 Under 40 Class, recognizing the leadership of young Latinos in the Chicago metropolitan area.
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Men of Principle Scholarship
Beta Theta Pi Foundation
The Men of Principle Scholarship Grant Program was established in 1999 through generous donations to the Beta Theta Pi Foundation to help individual chapters and colonies of the Fraternity recognize unaffiliated (non-Greek) male students on college campuses. We seek to reward these men for their devotion to the values that the Fraternity holds dear to our hearts – mutual assistance, intellectual growth, trust, integrity and responsible conduct – and for outspoken, positive leadership in our…
The Men of Principle Scholarship Grant Program was established in 1999 through generous donations to the Beta Theta Pi Foundation to help individual chapters and colonies of the Fraternity recognize unaffiliated (non-Greek) male students on college campuses. We seek to reward these men for their devotion to the values that the Fraternity holds dear to our hearts – mutual assistance, intellectual growth, trust, integrity and responsible conduct – and for outspoken, positive leadership in our communities.
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