Montville — Every day, Corina Bellone's son Jared would accomplish something that amazed her. She'll miss that most of all.

“To me it was like watching him accomplish the impossible. He was just amazing," she said. "I thought he was absolutely perfect. And he deserved so much more.”

Jared Bellone, 18, a senior at Norwich Technical High School, died Jan. 17 after suffering a seizure during the night. He had Asperger syndrome and had had one seizure about a year and a half earlier, but none since. He had been evaluated, his mother said.

At Norwich Tech, Bellone was a high honor student who excelled in mathematics, pre-electrical engineering and applied electronics. He was the first student to place in the state’s SkillsUSA competition as a sophomore and he placed again in his junior year. He recently had accepted an academic scholarship to attend Seton Hall University in New Jersey.

“He was more than just brilliant. He was devoted,” said Paul Ferreira, 17, a senior at Norwich Tech and Bellone's friend. “Because he did not want to give up. And he didn’t want to give up at anything.”

Ferreira then told this story: During their sophomore year, he and Bellone created a computer coding language. Ferreira had started the coding and Bellone said he’d help. “I remember about two weeks in, I went through to check the source code for it, and every single line had been changed. He had actually gone through the whole program,” Ferreira said. Even though it was just for fun, Bellone had tested the run time of each coded line, then made each one as short as it could be.

“He was passionate about just making anything better,” Ferreira said.

It wasn’t just about electronics. Norwich Tech piloted a Spanish program that taught the language online, and students in the class disliked the software, Ferreira said. Bellone searched for an alternative and found a free, academically accredited program they could use instead. “Everyone in the class tried it and we loved it,” Ferreira said. The small Spanish program in the school now uses it, he said.

Corina Bellone said her son struggled in middle school, but found his niche at Norwich Tech, where he excelled and loved the school. On days when Montville Public Schools closed due to weather and he wasn’t required to attend, he’d insist on her driving him, she said.

Jared Bellone built his own 3-D printer that takes up half of the dining room at home. He designed and redesigned to perfect it, and printed items for classmates, she said. He wanted to be his own boss someday.

He never let Asperger’s stop him, but liked that his brain was wired differently, his mother said. The summer before his sophomore year, Jared Bellone took an accelerated, five-week class in calculus just because he could. He was bored. He earned a grade 94 out of 100.

At Bellone’s funeral on Monday at St. John’s Parish, students from the electrical engineering and applied electronics shop attended dressed in their shop uniforms in his honor.

Jared Bellone’s younger sister, Sabrina, plays basketball for Ella T. Grasso Southeastern Technical High School, and the team played Norwich Tech on Jan. 20. The players from Norwich Tech hugged her after a moment of silence in remembrance of her brother.

Bellone’s family and friends, in conjunction with Norwich Tech, is establishing a scholarship fund in Jared’s name for future electrical engineering and applied electronics students. The family also has a gofundme page set up to help with funeral costs.