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18yo founder and design engineer at the intersection of business, tech, and product…
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Activities and Societies: Cum Laude Society (inducted Junior year for being in top 10% grade GPA), Yale Book Award, English Departmental Award, Head of School's Honors, founder and Editor-in-Chief of Visions (the school's only current student print publication, sales donated to children's literacy charities)
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Activities and Societies: Baxter Award for Science, English Honors Tea, History Honors Tea, Language Honors Tea, High Honor Roll
Publications
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Deconstructing Machine Learning for Product Design: How Data and Design Can Collaborate in User-Centric Products
UX Collective – Largest design publication on Medium
Honors & Awards
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Microsoft Imagine Cup Semifinalist
Microsoft
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Business Insider Founders Disrupting the Social Media Scene
Business Insider
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Stanford BASES $100K Startup Challenge Consumer First Place Winner
Stanford University, Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES)
Stanford's oldest and largest startup competition
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8x Scholastic Art & Writing Awards National Gold Medal Winner
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Alliance for Young Writers & Artists
• The nation’s longest-running, most prestigious recognition program for creative teens
• 8-time National Gold Medal for Writing (top <1% of submissions every year)
• Total 43 regional awards over the course of 4 years
• 21 Gold Keys won in regionals -
Uber Global Hackathon Global Finalist
Uber Global Hackathon
Top 7% out of 732 teams and 1800+ competitors from 68 countries
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Amanda Gorman Future Voices Poetry Prize First Place Winner
Beyond Baroque
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National Merit Scholarship Finalist
National Merit Scholarship Corporation
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AP Scholar with Distinction
CollegeBoard
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Applied Arts Award Winner
Applied Arts Media
Internationally awarded in Digital/Motion & Gaming design for my app VAST. Published in the Awards Annual magazine (Winter 2022 issue).
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Paradigm Challenge Finalist
Project Paradigm
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Games for Change Faire Game Writing Challenge Finalist
Games for Change
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International Plant Mars Challenge: Best in Show Award for Innovation
Institute of Competition Sciences, NASA SSERVI, Exolith Laboratory
Awarded Most Innovative Experiment for designing 3D printed self-watering pots to grow kale and tomatoes in Martian regolith stimulant
Team research paper: "Evaluating the Impact of Mycorrhizae Inoculants on Tomato and Kale Growth in Various Martian and Earth Soil Mixtures" -
Yale Book Award
St. Margaret's Episcopal School
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Cum Laude Society
International Cum Laude Society, St. Margaret's Episcopal School
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2x Scholastic National Gold Medal
Alliance for Young Artists & Writers
• 13-time Scholastic Gold Key recipient
• 2-time National Gold Medal for Poetry (top 1% of submissions)
• The nation’s longest-running, most prestigious recognition program for creative teens -
Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision National Science Competition Honorable Mention
Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision
Awarded for independent research paper on biotechnology & the future of food: "Biohacking Microalgae for the Future of Food: Ending World Hunger, Fighting Climate Change, and Restoring Nutrition"
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NCWIT Award for Aspirations Affiliate Winner
National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT)
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New York Times Student Review Contest
The New York Times
One of 9 winners out of nearly 4,000 entries (top 0.2%)
Published in the New York Times at 16yo -
Congressional App Challenge Winner
U.S. House of Representatives
App displayed in the U.S. Capitol Building and featured on the House of Representatives’ website
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L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Award Honorable Mention
L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest (est. 1983)
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Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Silver Award
Bow Seat
(Out of 6,000+ entries) Awarded for my app Stream, a water advocacy platform for youth
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Tiger Global Case Competition Global Champion & Best Speaker
Tiger Global Case Competition
The world's first and largest business case competition for high school students.
• Consulted for semiconductor and autonomous vehicle companies in Japan and Israel
• Led the Global Champion team (out of 1130+ teams in over 70 countries)
• Represented North America in the global round
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Inaugural OC Youth Poet Laureate
Urban Word NYC, LibroMobile Cooperative, OC Public Libraries
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Best New Poets Nominee
Best New Poets
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World Series of Innovation First Place Winner
Mastercard, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE)
• Developed FinanciAll, an app that uses artificial intelligence to generate starter credit ratings for the unbanked
• First place in the Gateway for the Unbanked Challenge sponsored by Mastercard, based on UN Sustainable Development Goal 9 -
Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Distinguished Honorable Mention
Bow Seat
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Atlanta Review International Poetry Award Recipient
The Atlanta Review
Youngest and first ever high school recipient
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Ivy League Parliamentary Championships First Place
Columbia University Debate Society
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Library of Congress Letters About Literature Honors Award
Library of Congress, Read.gov
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President's Award for Educational Excellence
President of the United States, United States Secretary of Education
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Scholastic National Silver Medal
Alliance for Young Artists & Writers
Languages
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Mandarin
Native or bilingual proficiency
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Cantonese
Native or bilingual proficiency
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Latin
Professional working proficiency
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Englisch
Native or bilingual proficiency
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