ShengboDiego Zhou

Founder of CollegePeer. Model United Nations nationals competitor. Black belt. Based in Orange County, California.

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Walking the runway at the Dre'Mona Couture Golden Series, 2026 U.S. Fashion Show in Los Angeles.
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Walking the runway at the Dre'Mona Couture Golden Series, 2026 U.S. Fashion Show in Los Angeles.

About

Founder, competitor, student.

15 years old. Born in China, raised in Southern California since age 3.

10th grader at Santa Margarita Catholic High School.

CollegePeerEarly Entrepreneur SocietyManga program in OsakaModel United NationsMartial artsModeling

Startups I’m Founding

Four ventures, and the people building them with me.

CollegePeer

FounderDemo Live

A platform connecting high school students with college mentors for real guidance on admissions, essays, and campus life. A working demo is now live.

Team

Yu Sun·Co-founder

Computer Science professor at Cal Poly Pomona, founder of Coding Mind, and chairman of the K12 Ventures Foundation startup incubator.

Austin Amakye Ansah·Lead Engineer

Building the web application. Computer scientist at UT Arlington with 2 published research papers and 1,600+ GitHub contributions in the past year.

View live demoView pitch deck

Japan Manga & Culture Summer Program

In partnership with Osaka Sogo College of Design

Osaka, Japan · June 13–21, 2027

FounderEnrolling for 2027

A 9-day summer program in Osaka where students ages 11 to 18 learn character design and storytelling directly from professional Japanese manga artists, then explore the city's anime culture. The first cohort runs June 2027.

Visit program website

Early Entrepreneur Society

Co-founderFirst interview out

A documentary project about young founders who started building before they turned 18. The first interview features Lindsay Cai, Head of Growth & Strategy at Ping AI, who published her first book at 16.

Team

Leon Sun·Co-founder

High school student who co-founded the society with Shengbo in 2026.

Visit eesociety.org

CritterPal

Founder0.4 beta

A pixel pet for your Mac desktop. A small critter walks along the Dock and reacts when you click it. It’s connected to an AI language model, so it answers what you type, and it can look at what’s on your screen, like homework or an error message, and respond to what you’re looking at. It also has an Arcade of 27 mini games, 47 critters to collect and a Shop of outfits. Free to download.

Built solo

Shengbo Zhou·Solo builder

Designed and built it alone: a native macOS app in Swift and SwiftUI, an AI chat backend in TypeScript on Vercel, and 600+ commits since October 2026.

Visit critterpal.app

Awards & Recognition

DIPLOMACY

Model United Nations

Award-winning delegate

Multiple delegate awards across Southern California conferences, headlined by Best Delegate at SOCOMUN, the largest one-day Model United Nations conference in the world.

MODELING

1st Place

22nd New Silk Road China International Children's Model Competition

LA Regional Final (2026). One of the most established international model competitions originating from China.

NATIONAL HONOR

Congressional Award Bronze Certificate

The Congressional Award

Earned the Bronze Certificate of the Congressional Award, the U.S. Congress' highest honor for youth, recognizing community service, personal development, physical fitness, and expedition.

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Youngest Member

UCI ANTrepreneur Club (2026)

The only high school student in a club otherwise made up of UCI undergraduates and graduate students.

CHESS

Tournament Chess

1600 USCF

Rated competitive chess player with awards across more than a dozen tournaments.

Plays online as me_pet_u_people on Chess.com (1530 Blitz, 1477 Rapid)

CIVIC LEADERSHIP

Canvassing Organizer

Oliver Ma for Lieutenant Governor

Organized youth volunteer operations for Oliver Ma's 2026 California Lieutenant Governor campaign. Built the volunteer portal (teamoliverma.com) and coordinated canvassing in Aliso Viejo.

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Activities & Involvement

MARTIAL ARTS

Black Belt

Life of Martial Arts (LOMA)

Years of training in technique, discipline, and competitive forms.

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ACADEMICS

CTY Scholar

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth

Three summers at the country's leading gifted-and-talented program.

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DIPLOMACY

Model United Nations Nationals Team

ModernBrain

Interview-only, year-round national competition team.

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MODELING

Runway

2026 U.S. Fashion Show, Los Angeles

Walked the Dre'Mona Couture Golden Series.

PUBLIC SERVICE

Explorer Recruit

Orange County Sheriff's Department

Training program at the original Law Enforcement Exploring Post in the U.S. (established 1959).

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SERVICE

Community Service

200+ hours

Service hours across the Orange County Sheriff's Department Explorer Program and Lights of Life.

Education

Santa Margarita Catholic High SchoolCurrent

10th grade, current

Army and Navy Academy

8th grade

Pacific Academy

7th grade

Stratford Schools

5th to 6th grade

St. Catherine's Academy

2nd to 4th grade

Vista Verde

1st grade

Bonita Canyon

Kindergarten

ACADEMICS

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth

Three summers

Selective summer program for academically advanced students.

Contact

Always happy to connect. Email is the fastest way to reach me.

Side projectsI run two small YouTube channels, @CryoBlazeYT (9K subscribers) and @CryoBlaze-ai (85 subscribers), with short-form videos on games, cooking, AI, and anime/manga. Just for fun.