As the year draws to a close, I wanted to share a different kind of project completed in the Gkogkas Lab: ProtocolQA, a document-grounded assistant that helps lab members find the right protocol steps (from our own files, across formats and versions) and run routine calculations reliably, without relying on “oral tradition". This was built by Ares Osorio, who joined us for two summer internships, first in 2024 (at age 16) and again in 2025 (at 17). Most of us at 16 were still