I’m starting this extremely late because my essays have consumed most of my break, but I am a competitive programmer that is interested in submitting my work in an MIT Maker Portfolio. Everything I’ve read online seems to hint that they’re looking for “hands on” creations like websites or software I’ve created, but all I’ve done is create algorithms that solve computing problems that people (the problem authors) have already solved. Granted, I love what I do and I’ve sunk a lot of time into it and I want to demonstrate that I really love it and am good at it, but I’m torn on whether MIT will allow it.
I’ve also been working on building an analog synthesizer, but it is still very heavily in progress because I was not able to work on it over the pandemic. I am using schematics from an online source, and I don’t know enough EE to understand it completely (though I am slowly gaining a vague intuition of what each component does). Would this be a viable alternative, or should I leave the portfolio empty?
Thanks!