The highways: ethernet cables. The streetlights: routers. The tollbooths: firewalls.
This is the analogy senior Cade Moyle uses to describe the complicated process of how the computers he tinkers on work— he’s loved computers since he was a little kid.
At 3, he was mathematical and intrigued; he wanted to figure out how the world worked. He pried his toys apart and used them in his fictional worlds.
At 10, he joined the Hebron tennis team, despite being in middle school. He loved the sport, and he was really competitive from the moment he joined.
On his 12th birthday, his gift was a miniature computer called a Raspberry Pi that he’d been excited to receive for months. He began experimenting with building palm-sized computers, intrigued by their intricate parts.
Throughout this early life, his family rented a router from their internet company, which often had issues with security.
At 15, he tried to fix the issue, concerned about his family’s security. However, there was little room for adaptation in the router, and he felt stuck.
“Who needs to adjust a router when you can just build a whole new one?” Cade thought.
He built an entirely new router using knowledge of hardware he’d acquired and software from a free community-based project called OpenWRT that has pre-programmed software ready to use.
Later, he ended up wiring the router to support a “Minecraft” server so that he and his friends could play the game on it whenever they wanted to.
Now, at 17, he’s still playing on the Hebron tennis team— like he has from seventh grade— and has been in DECA since the start of his sophomore year. He’s a treasurer and secretary for DECA, and a treasurer for the photography club.
At 19, at 22, at 30, at 40, he plans to major in business and develop a business of his own where he can help people with computer-related issues. He has enough expertise in different areas he doesn’t know what he plans to tackle.
Cade has many motivations for his future, including his parents and his christianity.
Cade’s aspirations to change the world originate from his parents. Since his childhood, they’ve told him that he should try to make an impact in his life, so he’s been trying his hardest to make them proud.
Following his religion, Cade aspires to be as humble and hardworking as he can in life so he can make an impact.
And, to him, that’s all that matters.
