Cc
No. 01
PLATFORM
PLATFORM
Chem Cash
A full classroom economy — a class store, a live stock market, classroom jobs, and twelve game types that keep my room running all year.
Launch
Chemistry · Code · Classroom
Teaching in the overlap of chemistry & code.
I'm a high school chemistry teacher and computational chemistry PhD who builds the apps, games, and resources I always wished my classroom had.
Coding Creations
Apps & games, straight from the lab.
Every one of these started as a classroom problem. Each card works like an element tile — tap Launch to try the live ones; the rest are still reacting in the lab.
Lw
No. 02
TOOL
TOOL
Lewis:Lab
A mobile-first Lewis structure builder with octet checking, formal charges, and shareable save codes.
LaunchBo
No. 03
TOOL
TOOL
Bohr:Lab
A drag-and-drop Bohr model builder — load the nucleus, stack the shells, drop electrons into place, and copy the atom straight to your clipboard.
LaunchPv
No. 04
TOOL
TOOL
PVD:Lab
A drag-and-drop particle view diagram builder — size your particles, label their charges, snap them into lattices, pour in a sea of electrons, and copy the diagram to your clipboard.
LaunchTs
No. 05
MAC APP
MAC APP
Tscribe
A native macOS app that transcribes audio & video entirely on-device — now with speaker identification and full-text search, plus word-level timestamps. Powered by whisper.cpp and Metal; nothing is ever uploaded.
LaunchEb
No. 06
GAME
GAME
Elementman Bond
A swing-physics minigame that teaches ionic, covalent, and metallic bonding — one grapple at a time.
In the lab — coming soon
Step Inside
Welcome to my classroom.
One first-person drone flight through the whole campus — the trophy commons, the courtyards, and the chem lab where the reactions actually happen. Press play and come on in.
Where I teach
Foothill High School
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Teaching Resources
Take what works. It's all on chemlessons.xyz.
My full high-school chemistry curriculum lives on a site of its own — interactive notebook pages, slide decks, assignments, labs, and assessments, from 12+ years in the classroom. Free to copy, adapt, and teach.
The companion site
A full year of free high school chemistry — two complete courses, unit by unit, built in a real classroom and shared with real teachers.
Visit chemlessons.xyzNotebook Pages
Print-ready foldables, guided notes, and references for composition-book notebooks.
Slide Decks
Google Slides for every lesson, plus interactive HTML decks hosted right there.
Assignments & Labs
Practice sets, station activities, and labs that run on standard classroom gear.
Educators onlyAssessments
Quizzes, unit tests, and keys — shared privately with verified educators.
About
From simulations to stoichiometry.
I earned my PhD in computational chemistry modeling molecules with code — then discovered the reaction I liked best happens in a classroom. For over twelve years I've taught high school chemistry, and for over eighteen I've been teaching in one form or another.
These days I split my energy between the lab bench and the keyboard: building games that make bonding intuitive, tools that replace clunky software, and systems that make a classroom hum. If it makes chemistry click for a student, it ships.
PhD Computational chemistry — molecules by machine
18+ Years teaching, in and out of the classroom
12+ Years of high school chemistry
Now Building the chem classroom of the future
Education
- 2009 B.S. BiochemistrySouthern Oregon University
- 2011 M.S. ChemistryUniversity of Washington
- 2014 Ph.D. ChemistryUniversity of Washington
- 2016 M.Ed. Curriculum and Instruction in Secondary Science EducationUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)
Web Design
I design & build websites, too.
Framework-free sites for university research groups — the Li Group and UW MEM·C.
See the web design
Peer-Reviewed
Before the classroom, the literature.
Ten peer-reviewed papers from my computational chemistry PhD in the Li Group at the University of Washington — density functional theory and real-time dynamics on doped semiconductor quantum dots.
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Science Illustration
I make the cover art, too.
Molecular renderings I've made for the journals — cover art for Chemical Reviews and ACS Materials Letters.
View the cover art