Typically the FBI and police will identify the IP address for suspected child predators and then systematically locate the person by backtracking through their network until they can locate their Internet Service Provider. Quimet's Web Site helps narrow the field by providing a visual experience that details the direct path to a particular IP address, at times detailing the country, state and city it originated from.

Yet this is only an example of how Quimet has begun shaping his education into real-world opportunities. He also operates a Web page, socwall.com, and has started the business AD Hock Labs with his roommate. The goal of the lab is to create Web sites where users generate and promote the content on the pages, because those sites can typically manage themselves.

Clint Rogers, Quimet's mentor and past professor, said it has been a treat watching Quimet succeed because every teacher's dream is to see their students apply what they've learned in inventive ways.

"(Quimet) is only at the beginning of his career," Rogers said. "Keep your eyes on him, he'll only keep growing from here."

As Quimet rounds out his final year at BYU, he said he will keep creating tools and Web pages he sees a need for, but that's just what he enjoys doing.

"I've had so much fun with my education, and that's what I've learned at BYU," Quimet said. "It's been great learning to take concepts from an amateur level to a large scale."

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