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Wolfram High School
Summer Research Program

Bentley University, Boston, MA June 25–July 12, 2025

Alumni

Jake Frances

Class of 2018

Bio

Jacob Frances is a rising senior at Oswego High School. His primary areas of interest lie within the fields of computer science and artificial intelligence. In addition to taking initiative to be elected president of his schools chapter of the National Honor Society, Jacob has aided in the founding of Oswego High Schools first STEM club. Outside of school, he works as a part-time salesperson at Best Buy and as a software developer for a local business, Spidr Design. With his free time, Jacob enjoys broadening his knowledge of computer science, longboarding, and writing apps for iOS in Xcode using his favorite programming language, Swift. After college, Jacob hopes to pursue a career in the fields of business management and computer science in order to give him the opportunity to combine his leadership skills with his passion for computer science.

Project: Using Twitter Sentiment Analysis to Determine Emoji Sentiment