Hi, I’m Jan!

My full name is Jan Carlo Avendano, but it’s okay to just call me Jan. I am majoring in Management, concentrating in Operations Management. I come from Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and I went to the High School of Telecommunications Arts and Technology. I’m excited to begin my undergraduate studies here at Baruch!

I am very passionate about martial arts. I have been doing Taekwondo for more than seven years and dabbled in other martial arts, such as kickboxing. Three years ago, I began my journey instructing classes, where I had to learn how to teach fun and engaging traditional and olympic-style Taekwondo classes that also teach discipline and progress students towards achieving their next belt. Today, I am a Head Instructor who is learning more about the business end of the martial arts school.

I am also really interested in Software Engineering! While in high school was a part of the school’s Software Engineering Program (SEP), where I had a lot of fun learning about programming languages and creating programs and websites. Here is a video where I presented my senior year Freedom Project, where I trained a computer-vision AI model to detect martial arts techniques!

I also like to do a bit of photography! Especially landscape/scenic photography, but I generally look for things that just stand out. Here are some of my best photos!

Those are some of the main things that I do, other than that though, I really love athletic training and weightlifting, writing, technology, and video games. That’s all for me!

What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for – the things I was brought into the world to do?

Marcus Aurelius,