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I was born in 1991 and grew up in a small town in Kansas. I spent most of my childhood playing video games on the SNES, N64, Xbox, and PC. My first exposure to the internet was playing Starcraft on my Opa’s computer in 1998. I remember being able to log on and play against others in 1-vs-1 matches and in teams for 4-vs-4 matches. I then discovered custom map types, where I remember playing the ‘Cat N Mouse’ games over and over, all night, every night. Little me was blown away that you could make a game within a game and I wanted to learn to make my own custom games. I booted up StarEdit and started doing random things. I had absolutely no idea how to make triggers work or how to edit the units' stats, but I was hooked. I enjoyed just sitting there and playing Starcraft and making maps by tweaking the custom games like ‘Cat N Mouse’, or ‘Diplomacy’ to put my own spin on it and to share it with these random strangers online. This is what got me interested in tech.