Exceptional Beginning
Nassir was very close to his mother, especially when it came to academic standards. He was drafted into a science safety poster contest- his first ever engineering competitiveness of his life- and won first place in 1st grade during 2009 with his mother's assistance. He began seeing his maternal family in the south side of Chicago, and earned his adventures with Six Flags and gifts that would assist in his engineering preparation. He leaned toward roller coaster engineering at the time. In fact, he would play tycoon games for designing parks and terrain. Nas wasn't the type of person to watch TV constantly, moreover, he was always on the move with prioritizing prestigious work related to school. That's one weakness- Nas' focus on a subject gets intense that it leads to exploration and not a confined specific focus.
When Nas was 8-9 years old, he gained human capital on foreign events such as Chernobyl and the 9/11 catastrophe. This was a targeted subject that impressed his 3rd grade teachers. Recess wasn't just to "play around", but for Nas to study engineering ants and learn to build his predestined colony when he becomes an adult. He was introduced to a challenging artistic project with creating a robot that could conduct household commands. Nas and his mother created this idea of a cook robot made of aluminum and cardstock pieces- took four weeks to make into reality. In 2012, Nas discovered his mother's health hazard, and later learned that his mother had a stroke and developed type two diabetes. This had a major impact on Nas' performance at school.
Networking & Bringing Ideas To Life
During 5th grade in 2012, Nas' mother was in recovery, and he got the hang of the "secret rules of life". By this time, he owned a pet Japanese dragon fish and applied responsibility to groups he lead in STEM programs.
His grandparents- Marie and Johnny III Williams- took great care of him, and introduced him to once in a lifetime life lessons that he carried on forever. Nas' grandmother would cook and treat him with respective skills within his hand strength, while his grandfather improvised home organization and his ability with technological applications. Due to this, Nas gained interest in how lawn mowers, computers, coffee makers, and light systems, to name a few, functioned- all containing embedded systems. Nas gained popularity all over the state of TN after his family encouraged musicality with his violin as an extracurricular activity for well-roundness that became very successful.
He always personificated his violin as a brother, being the "tool" to help him "escape" depression and bullying that only got worse overtime. Nas joined an organization called Memphis Youth Symphony Orchestra (MYSO), where he met his long-time best friend and virtuoso violinist, Andrew Chiang.
Nas took on another challenge toward a science fair, and won first place creating a(n) LED light bulb powered by lemons' acidity called the "Lemon Battery Experiment" that wowed the convention of primary judges.
The rule of life here: acquire as much education as you can...any resource, no matter the identity, will help.
Chivalry & Reflection
6th and 7th grade years were the brutal years of Nas' life. A daily basis of people teasing him in negative and biased ways. Nas sets a positive aura around everyone he's near, and his student body would become envious. Many made fun of his unique voice, and others would simply call him a 'terrorist' because of his fraternal side. There was an instance where Nas sat with his bullies at the lunch table trying to give mercy, but receives angry eyes, with all but a mentally ill boy who stayed by him as he cried.
This tempted Nassir to host a routine helping mentally ill students at the time from 2013-2015- Nas took on a "reconstruction" phase of his life.
His science teacher gave this idea that he once again won 1st place for: Marble roller coaster contest. This fluctuant phase was damaging, but at least some positivity came out of it.
Imagine his seventh grade year, and the breaker point emerged. On career day, he was the only one in an engineer uniform wearing a hardhat. I spectated how everyone walking by was pushing Nas to the side, treating him less than human, and calling him bob the builder... the bravest kid one would've thought was in a Civil Rights Movement- this occurred in Spring of 2016 at Cordova Middle School. His only attempted lynching suicide; Nas' mother and I, being one of Nas' true friends, calmed him down right before this happened, as all his blessings would've been "thrown away" otherwise.