David Huyck ’98

I joined the Web Development team at Carleton in 2016 after returning to Carleton through a position at the Science Education Resource Center. I have built websites for large and small businesses, and public and private institutions, and with over seven years of university-level teaching experience, I bring a wide variety of experiences back to Carleton.

In 2023, the web team finished migrating all of Carleton’s websites from the Reason CMS to WordPress. The project started in 2018 with the award-winning Admissions website. In my role, I have worked from all the way in the back-end, integrating data sources from various campus systems, to the front-end display code, and wiring it all together in between. We use an alphabet soup of technologies, including PHP, JavaScript, CSS (and Less, SASS, and PCSS), WebPack, Twig, Docker, Composer, Kubernetes, Node.js, GraphQL, and a variety of database servers and flavors, including MySQL, MSSQL, and Oracle. I enjoy helping the Carleton community solve their website needs.

In the fall of 2024, I returned to the classroom to teach the Karate PE class. I started training Ueshiro Shorin-Ryu Karate under Sensei Bob Dobrow (Professor Emeritus in Math and Statistics) in 2016, earned my Sho-Dan (first-degree black belt) in 2023 under Sensei Steve Hatle, and I advanced to Ni-Dan (second-degree) in 2025. I am excited to continue my training with the Carleton community.

Education History

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MFA
Carleton College, BA

Ueshiro Shorin-Ryu Karate

My family and I study traditional karate from Okinawa with a Northfield dojo established by Carleton math professor (emeritus) Bob Dobrow in 2008. The dojo is part of a global network of schools founded by Ansei Ueshiro in 1962, and now headed by Hanshi Robert Scaglione in Florida. The Shihan for the Northfield dojo is Sensei Steve Hatle, Yon-Dan.

In the fall of 2024, I became the Shihan (director) of a new Ueshiro Carleton Karate Dojo, separate from, but closely tied to, the Northfield dojo. The dojo serves Carleton students from PE classes and from the Karate Club student org, as well as any staff, faculty, alumni, and friends who wish to train with us.

My eldest child and I began our training in 2016, and we were promoted in May of 2023 to the rank of Sho-Dan, first-degree black belt. I advanced to Ni-Dan (second-degree black belt) in 2025. My wife and son also train in the dojo, and are at the rank of Ik-Kyu, brown belt with black tips. Shorin-Ryu karate is a beautiful and living tradition. The dojo invites all who wish to learn more and train — beginners and advanced students are always welcome on the deck.

I Like to Draw and Make Stuff

In addition to my current work as a web developer, and my previous career as an Art and Design professor, I have also illustrated six books for children. I make picture books and comics, I’ve done a bunch of design and illustration for my friends Louis & Dan, and I have also worked in illustration and graphic design, web design and programming, and fine art painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and art installations. I write and draw every day in pursuit of more storytelling opportunities.

My work has earned spots in Communication Arts, Print, and HOW design annuals. In 2016, one of the books I illustrated, If Kids Ruled the World, won Ontario’s Blue Spruce Award and Saskatchewan’s Shining Willow Award. Manners are Not for Monkeys won a 2017 Rainforest of Reading award. Both That One Spooky Night and This is Not My Story were official Junior Library Guild selections.