Aaron Coles

Founder

Drift Net

Aaron Coles was born in Arizona and grew up mostly in Texas, moving to the Chicago suburbs at sixteen. While he planned to begin college at MIT in the fall of 2018, the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL. caused him to rethink his plans. Seeing the clear need for our nation’s children to be protected at school and being a natural problem solver, Aaron did a deep dive into current school safety solutions. While technologies in other fields continued to evolve rapidly, most school security systems had changed little since the Columbine school shooting in 1999. With the mission to empower schools to be safe places of learning and having an innate sense for engineering, Aaron set about brainstorming, designing, and engineering a comprehensive and cutting-edge security system from his parents’ garage. This work quickly evolved into the company Aaron formed, Drift Net. His company's products are used at schools across the USA.