David Pyakurel Background

David Pyakurel was born in Damak, Nepal, on July 27, 1994. He has five siblings: four sisters and one brother. Mr. Pyakurel immigrated to the United State at the age of 13 with his brother, one sister and his parents. Upon arrival in the United States, Mr. Pyakurel, his parents and his siblings did not speak English. After two weeks, Mr. Pyakurel pushed himself to learn new languages and culture to understand other part of worlds. He motivates himself by reading one quote, “A different language is a different vision of life.”

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On May 14, 2014, Mr. Pyakurel graduated from Lincoln West High School. Lincoln West High school recognized Mr. Pyakurel as a bright student of the year because he was the only immigrant who graduated in the top 10th place.

After high school, Mr. Pyakurel set a plan attend college, but it did not work as planned because of family and financial problems. Instead, he worked two jobs within 24 hours to provide food, shelter and clothing for his family.

In 2015, Mr. Pyakurel’s friend, Mr. Sam Dahal, referred him to Year-Up. Year-Up is a one-year career development program with 250 corperate partners around the country. Mr. Pyakurel is pursuing the Front-End-Development track in Year-Up. Pyakurel say “He is one of the best web developer during class-12 movement”. He has a magical idea about how to get open source and how to organize code on his web site. Mr. Pyakurel has two years’ experience in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Currently he is learning C++ and other languages by himself.

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Mr. Pyakurel loves to engage in outside activity too, especially during summer time, He likes to hang out with his family and friends.

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Whenever he feels low, he reads motivational books and watches Lee Brown videos. For him, these are the best ways to get work done.

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Mr. Pyakurel says, “The sky doesn’t have a limit, so who says I have a limit? I have to make a limit by myself.”

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Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.