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About the founder & lead instructor

Twenty-seven years across NASA, IBM X-Force Red, and independent research.

Bee Davis founded Davis Geometric and runs every Davis Geometric Summer Academy session herself. Her work crosses mission engineering, adversarial computing, and the geometric mathematics that quietly powers all three. This page is the credential sheet — the short version of what gets brought into the classroom every morning.

27
Years experience
NASA
Mission Control
IBM
X-Force Red · Adversary Services
Brown
MS, Forensics
30
Patents · 9 products
01 · The work

Mission engineering, adversarial computing, geometric mathematics — the three threads this camp draws from.

NASA Mission Control. Bee spent years inside the real flight rooms that own everything from launch through orbital insertion. The mission-planning, contingency-trees, and go/no-go discipline taught in Week B · Mission Control is not analogy. It is the actual methodology, adapted for eleven-to-fourteen-year-olds and a launch field instead of a launch pad.

IBM X-Force Red · Adversary Services. X-Force Red is IBM's offensive-security team — the engineers who attack systems on behalf of the companies that own them, so the real attackers find nothing left. Bee built capability inside that team for years. The age-adapted version of that methodology runs as Week C · Cybersecurity, in a sandbox that never touches the open internet.

Davis Geometric LLC. Bee is the founder. Davis Geometric is a research-and-product company built around a single unifying claim: most of the hard problems in computing have a geometric reading, and the geometric reading is the easier one. Nine products and thirty patents across cryptography, vulnerability research, AI architecture, and applied geometry sit on top of that claim.

The thread underneath all three is the same: take a problem people treat as messy or statistical, and show that it has a clean geometric shape. The shape is the lesson.

— from the Davis Geometric founding notes, 2024

02 · Published work, research, and patents

What's on the public record.

03 · Why a summer camp

Because nobody in the country is teaching eleven-year-olds this material with these credentials.

The standard tech summer camp is run by college students working a seasonal job, teaching from canned material a publisher wrote five years ago. The standard parent has the right instinct that their kid wants more — but the only alternatives are either watered-down enrichment programs or pre-college courses that won't take an eleven-year-old.

Davis Geometric Summer Academy is what fills that gap. Every session is taught by Bee. The curriculum draws directly from the same research, the same methodology, and the same physical work that lives upstream in the rest of Davis Geometric. A camper in Week B doesn't simulate orbital mechanics; they run the same equations that put real satellites in real orbits. A camper in Week C doesn't read about lock-picking; they pick the lock.

If we teach it, we build it. That's the entire pedagogy.

Who Bee is, in one paragraph for parents: A senior technical leader with twenty-seven years in some of the country's most demanding engineering environments, who has chosen — in addition to ongoing research and product work — to spend eight weeks of every summer teaching twenty-five eleven-to-fourteen-year-olds at a time the actual material she works on the rest of the year. She runs the program herself, with one TA per session. She is Live Scan cleared and the program carries general liability and abuse-and-molestation insurance.

04 · Welcome here
Welcome here · always

Every camper, every family, without exception.

Davis Geometric Summer Academy is a safe space for all races, religions, national origins, languages, abilities, body sizes, family structures, and genders. No camper will be excluded from any activity, conversation, or opportunity on the basis of who they are or who their family is.

We mean this firmly. Our love for the full range of communities Sacramento contains is not a marketing line; it is a hiring standard, a curriculum standard, and a code-of-conduct standard that applies to every staff member and every camper. If something falls short of that, we want to hear about it — by email, directly to Bee, within the same day.