Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff '95 Tours Campus and Meets with Students

There was plenty of excitement on campus this week as MBS alumnus Jamie Siminoff ’95, Chief Inventor and Founder of Ring, stopped by with his son on Thursday. The Shark Tank veteran and entrepreneur got a first-hand look at some of the exciting experiential learning that is taking place at MBS.

He toured the School’s Center for Innovation & Design (CID), met with faculty and students, learned about the Middle School’s 6^th Grade sailboat project, and got a hands-on demonstration of Science On a Sphere.

In Dr. Dennis Evangelista’s classroom, Mr. Siminoff met with sophomores Kevin Chen ’25, Nick Troiano ’25 and Johannes Wabnitz-Moch ’25 (a 30-year “link in the chain” with the Class of 1995!), who presented independent work done in the Math and Science Center and CID to develop an AI-enabled art installation. Their design uses a Raspberry Pi and camera mount on the wall in a custom 3-D printed case, running OpenCV computer vision algorithms to identify people moving in the room. The information is then passed along to a second Raspberry Pi that controls an array of LEDs that respond interactively to the presence of the person.

Mr. Siminoff recalled how his passion for tinkering was ignited at MBS — especially in Rich Timek’s architecture class. “That was incredible for me, the stuff that we did in Mr. Timek’s architecture class," he said. "For the final project, we had to build a model and that was one of my favorite things I’ve done.”