# Lance Streuber

> Personal site of Lance Streuber — mechanical engineering student at Penn State, R&D researcher, and builder of automated software systems.

Personal site of Lance Streuber (lancestreuber.com). Contact: lancestreuber@icloud.com.

## Education

- B.S. Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA) — Expected December 2026, GPA 3.84
- Dean's List, every semester

## Projects

- [Surge Web Services](https://lancestreuber.com/projects/surge-web-services): A fleet of local search properties that generate and sell phone calls to service businesses. Runs itself. (Founder, Surge Web Services, 2026 - Present, Operating)
  - Built with: Python, Supabase, n8n, Automated site generation, Local SEO
  - 30 properties live across 5 metropolitan markets
  - 25 service verticals, 268 directory citations
  - 6,391 automated tasks in a 14-day window at a 99.8% completion rate
  - Research, build, deploy, sell leads, and upkeep all run without manual intervention
- [Surge Events](https://lancestreuber.com/projects/surge-events): Automated event calendars for tourism boards and chambers of commerce. Reached $500 MRR; now runs for its existing customers only. (Co-founder, Surge Events, 2025 - Present, Maintained, not taking new customers)
  - Built with: React, n8n, Python, Supabase, OpenRouter, WordPress embed
  - Scans 100+ local event sources automatically — venues, social media, organizers
  - Human approval queue with bulk operations before anything publishes
  - Deduplication and quality filtering on ingest
  - One line of embed code; the calendar syncs itself from then on
  - Reached $500 MRR
- [SnackScout](https://lancestreuber.com/projects/snackscout): A live-updating calendar of free food events at Penn State, populated automatically. (Founder, SnackScout LLC, Sep 2024 - Present, Live)
  - Built with: React, n8n, Supabase, Firecrawl, Bolt, MailChimp, Netlify
  - Automatic event aggregation from GroupMe, Discord, and Slack
  - Interactive AI-powered chatbot for submitting and finding events
  - Roughly 100 weekly users; 600+ meals found
  - Won the 3 Dots Downtown Awesome Grant, $1,000, October 2025
- [Interior Diameter Laser Cladding Robot](https://lancestreuber.com/projects/interior-diameter-laser-cladding-robot): Retrofitted a dead plastic injection molding gantry into a 4-axis CNC laser cladding machine. (Engineering Intern, Nittany Laser Technologies, May 2024 - Aug 2024, Delivered)
  - Built with: AcornCNC, Arduino, SolidWorks, GCode, Servos and drives, Limit switches
  - Four full degrees of freedom
  - Fully custom CNC control solution
  - Custom GCode dialect for the interior diameter cladding process
  - Two purpose-built control boxes housing all logic and processing
- [HiveSense](https://lancestreuber.com/projects/hivesense): Beehive health monitoring from sound and video, without opening the hive — and an honest account of which models actually work. (Contributor, June 2026, Prototype)
  - Built with: Python, scikit-learn, librosa, PyTorch, Fetch.ai uAgents, Redis Stack, ViViT
  - Acoustic models on 13 MFCC and 9 spectral-shape descriptors, validated hive-held-out
  - Fine-tuned ViViT-B vision model for varroa mite detection
  - Seven per-hive reasoning agents plus a fleet-level coordinator
  - ASI:One chat interface over the whole fleet
- [CITED](https://lancestreuber.com/projects/cited): Finds which sources an AI answer engine actually reads for your category, then opens the pull request that fixes your gaps. (Team member, c0mpiled 11 Hackathon, July 2026, Hexclave track winner)
  - Built with: Next.js, TypeScript, Anthropic API, Perplexity API, GitHub API, cheerio
  - Runs N category queries against an answer engine and captures every cited URL
  - Scores visibility as cited queries over total queries
  - Diffs your content against gap keywords
  - Generates metadata rewrites plus a gap-targeting page, then opens the PR
- [SwiperNoSwiping](https://lancestreuber.com/projects/swiper-no-swiping): A Chrome extension that stands between you and the Buy Now button, and makes you justify the purchase to something that knows your finances. (Team member, c0mpiled 13 Hackathon, July 2026, Hexclave track winner)
  - Built with: Chrome MV3, Vanilla JS, FastAPI, SQLite, DeepSeek, Channel3
  - Content script scans the DOM for buy, checkout, and add-to-cart buttons
  - A transparent overlay intercepts the click before it lands
  - Reasons from your stated financial goals, your wishlist, and your current financial position
  - Researches real alternatives through Channel3 and recommends cheaper options that still meet the need
  - Talks with you until it either approves or rejects the purchase
  - Rejected purchases move their price into a running savings counter
- [LLM Among Us](https://lancestreuber.com/projects/llm-among-us): Among Us where every player is a different language model. Nobody human plays; you just watch. (Backend, June 2026, Prototype)
  - Built with: Python, asyncio, pygame, httpx, OpenRouter
  - Full Among Us ruleset resolved autonomously by the engine
  - One model per player, all queried in parallel each turn
  - Live pygame render for a human admin to spectate
  - No database, no web server, single process, pure in-memory state
- [AI-Powered Community Events Calendar](https://lancestreuber.com/projects/rediscover-state-college-events): A self-maintaining events calendar for Rediscover State College, and the pivot that got me there. (Builder, Rediscover State College, Summer 2025, Live)
  - Built with: React, n8n, Supabase, WordPress, OpenRouter, ElevenLabs, Bolt
  - Automatic event scraping from configured websites
  - Automatic event scraping from configured social media feeds
  - WordPress-friendly HTML embed
  - Full events management dashboard with human approval step
- [Nittany Laser Technologies Website](https://lancestreuber.com/projects/nittany-laser-website): Came back two years after my internship to rebuild my old employer's website. First paid web work. (Contract developer, Nittany Laser Technologies, Summer 2025, Live)
  - Built with: React, Bolt, Netlify
  - Complete rebuild from scratch
  - Dedicated project pages for each product line
- [Retail Search Scraper](https://lancestreuber.com/projects/notibuy-scraper): A production Walmart search scraper for Notibuy that gets through the anti-bot layer other scrapers stall on. (Software Engineering Intern, Notibuy, Oct 2025 - Jan 2026, Delivered)
  - Built with: Python, asyncio, ScrapFly, parsel, loguru
  - Async paginated scraping of retail search results
  - Parses structured product data out of the page's embedded JSON payload
  - Modular design so the anti-bot layer can be swapped without touching parsing
  - Built alongside the full stack for their Veribuy platform

## Experience

- Resident, ACRN (Oak Street, San Francisco) — June 2026 - August 2026
  - Residency program at a hacker house for builders — engineers, founders, and finance people who ship after dinner
  - House principles: make the thing, doors open, leave it better, plant for later
  - 41 hackathons won across the house and counting
- Door-to-Door Sales Representative, T-Mobile Fiber — May 2026 - June 2026
  - Sold T-Mobile fiber installation services door to door, averaging 2.3 sales per day
  - Worked 12-hour days, 6 days a week
  - Took the job deliberately: I had spent years building technical things and could not sell them, so I put myself somewhere I would have to learn or fail visibly
- Engineering Learning Assistant, ENGR 310, Penn State (University Park, PA) — Nov 2025 - Present
  - Creating the syllabus and lesson plans for next semester
  - Working with professors and students to create a better program
  - Teaching hard skills on web development, AI tools, MCP, and agents
- Software Engineering Intern, Notibuy (Seattle, WA) — Oct 2025 - Jan 2026
  - Used Bolt, Supabase, and n8n to create the full stack for their Veribuy platform
  - Created a modular web scraping element that can bypass all standard anti-bot filters
- Member, Board of Directors, The Daily Collegian (State College, PA) — Jun 2025 - Present
  - Meeting and working with editors, writers, and journalists to produce Penn State’s number one daily paper
  - Working with other board members to optimize a budget of over $500K
- President, co.space (State College, PA) — May 2025 - Present
  - Joined May 2025; became Entrepreneur in Residence in fall 2025; became President in May 2026
- R&D Engineering Intern, Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State (State College, PA) — Sep 2024 - Nov 2025
  - Created a sizing estimation algorithm for anchoring systems for autonomous submarines using MATLAB
  - Designed, modeled, and 3D-printed custom parts for autonomous submarines using SolidWorks
  - Worked on 3 secret-level projects and was read into 1 top-secret project
- Founder, SnackScout LLC (State College, PA) — Sep 2024 - Present
  - Created a live-updating calendar that scrapes free food data from Penn State clubs
  - Coded backend automations to scrape food event data from GroupMe, Slack, Discord, a website chatbot, and email
  - Roughly 100 weekly users; has helped find 600+ meals
  - Won the 3 Dots Downtown Awesome Grant for $1,000 (October 2025)
- Engineering Intern, Nittany Laser Technologies (Philipsburg, PA) — May 2024 - Aug 2024
  - Designed and built an industrial laser cladding machine from custom components that sold for over $200K
  - Used CAD/CAM to design, optimize, and iterate production-ready parts
  - Created a glass tube laser cutting robot and a welding robot from scratch parts
  - Performed a complete overhaul of their website
- Undergraduate Researcher, Engineering Design and Optimization Group (University Park, PA) — Nov 2023 - Dec 2024
  - Co-authored an SFF conference paper on the feasibility of robotic arms in non-planar additive manufacturing
  - Designed and manufactured over 30 acoustic dampener samples for aerospace applications
  - Programmed and tested ABB robotic arms for non-planar FDM printing
- Financial Literacy Student Ambassador, Sokolov-Miller Family Financial and Life Skills Center (University Park, PA) — Oct 2023 - Jun 2024
  - Regularly delivered presentations on financial topics such as tax law, budgeting, and investing
  - Held one-on-one financial tutoring for dozens of Penn State students and alumni
- Director, National Youth Leadership Training, BSA (Washington Crossing Council) — Dec 2022 - May 2023
  - Directed and oversaw the training of 16 other staff members
  - Programmed and facilitated thirteen days of leadership education content
  - Educated roughly 250 scouts over five terms on NYLT staff
- Activity Head, Camp Agawam (Raymond, ME) — Summers 2022 and 2023
  - Ran the camp woodshop, teaching hand and power tool skills to campers
  - Ran lawn games programming
  - Earned American Red Cross Lifeguarding, Wilderness First Aid, and CPR/AED certifications

## Publications

- Michael Geuy, Lance Streuber, Yifei Li, Ilya Kovalenko, Jay Martin. "Pros and Cons of Industrial Robots in Additive Manufacturing". Solid Freeform Fabrication 2024: Proceedings of the 35th Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, 2024. DOI: 10.26153/tsw/58287
  - Abstract: Advances in non-planar, multi-axis, and hybrid material extrusion additive manufacturing techniques increasingly demand active nozzle orientation control. Industrial articulated robot arms are commonly implemented for repetitive manufacturing tasks and these arms are becoming a common choice of motion platform for additive manufacturing given their ubiquity and flexibility. Here we explore the pragmatic benefits and challenges of using industrial robotic arms for extrusion additive manufacturing. While robotic arms from established manufacturers are highly capable, recent offerings are more easily integrated and safer, while providing the same or improved capabilities as the more traditional models.

## Awards and honors

- Hexclave track winner, c0mpiled 13 Hackathon, 2026 — Track winner, $1,000, SwiperNoSwiping
- Hexclave track winner, c0mpiled 11 Hackathon, 2026 — Track winner, $1,000, CITED
- Dean's List, Penn State College of Engineering, 2026 — Every semester
- Nittany AI Challenge, Nittany AI Alliance, Penn State, 2026 — 4th place, $2,000, Team Surge
- Inc.U Competition, Invent Penn State, 2026 — Tied 4th, $1,000, Surge
- Most Venture-Backable, c0mpiled 6 Hackathon, 2026 — Category winner, $800, Web Design Agency
- Nittany AI Challenge, MVP phase, Nittany AI Alliance, Penn State, 2026 — Advanced to next phase, $300, Surge Events
- Awesome Grant, 3 Dots Downtown / The Awesome Foundation, 2025 — Recipient, $1,000, SnackScout
- SOLIDWORKS Design Professional, Dassault Systèmes, 2025 — Certified
- Business Showcase winner, ENGR 310, Penn State, 2024 — Winner, $500
- Outstanding Technical Award, Perkasie Lions Club, 2023 — Recipient, $200
- Physics Student of the Year, Pennridge High School, 2023 — Recipient, $500
- Super Senior, Pennridge High School, 2023 — Recipient, $500
- Student of the Month, Rotary Club, 2023 — Recipient, $500
- Eagle Mentor Pin, Boy Scouts of America, 2023 — Recipient
- SAT, College Board, 2022 — 1540
- ACT, ACT, Inc., 2022 — 34
- National Outdoor Awards, Boy Scouts of America, 2022 — Recipient
- CPR/AED, American Red Cross, 2022 — Certified
- Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America, 2022 — Rank earned
- Lifeguarding, American Red Cross, 2022 — Certified
- Wilderness First Aid, American Red Cross, 2022 — Certified

## Elsewhere

- GitHub: https://github.com/lancestreuber
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lance-streuber

## Pages

- https://lancestreuber.com/
- https://lancestreuber.com/projects
- https://lancestreuber.com/experience
- https://lancestreuber.com/awards
- https://lancestreuber.com/publications
- https://lancestreuber.com/about
- https://lancestreuber.com/contact