About five or six years ago, Elijah Haven sat down and penciled out his future. His plan? Pursue a career in computer engineering and found his own company. He didn’t have all the details sketched out, but he did have a name — Haven Tech — and he made sure to include it in the essay he submitted for a middle school award.

But plans can change. And priorities can shift, especially for someone as athletically gifted as Haven.

“As early as fifth grade,” his mother, Ebony Haven, said, “he knew that's kind of what he wanted to do.”

Haven, a junior at The Dunham School , might still grow up to represent a large company. He’s still on track to work as an engineer — but not in the traditional sense, or at least the way he envisioned when he wrote that essay in middle school.

Haven’s a quar

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