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Arts/Preforming Arts
Piano
Jazz Band
In 2021, my school’s music program, including the big band jazz band I’m part of began preparing for an online Jazz Cabaret. It was to be a huge hour long concert featuring many different forms of music, and have small skits breaking up the regular flow of music. I am the trumpet player for the Senior Jazz Band, and we decided to individually record our own stems (parts) and put them all together in post production.
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Engineering Summer Academy at Penn
Overview
At ESAP, students learn from professors and students from Penn. We learn basic coding, mechanics, and electronics; everything we would need to know to construct a robot that plays an instrument.
My Experience
This program is the closest thing to actual college life I’ve ever experienced. From living on campus dorms to the classrooms and curriculum, everything was, according to the teaching assistants, were remarkably similar to an actual UPenn course.
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ISSDC
ISSDC Summary
The International Space Settlemend Design Competition is a design competition hosted at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Each year, contestants compete in regional tournaments to try and acquire a position at the international competition, where teams are generally much larger and the stakes are even higher. There are typically 4 teams competing and roughly 40 people on each team. The competition begins when the request for proposal is released which contains all the details and requirements for our settlement.
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Science and Engineering Projects
Over the years, I have taken on many different science and engineering projects.
Some were for fun,
Candy dispenser inspired from Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator.
while others were for science fair competitions, and I even created a project board for some of them.(https://projectboard.world/ysc/project/smart-computer-stand ) (https://projectboard.world/ysc/project/search-and-rescue-surveillance-with-thermal-imaging-powered-by-deep-machine-learning )
Smart computer stand.
Reconnaissance camera.
In the end, I created these things not because I had to, but because I wanted to and I had fun doing it.
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Sports
Soccer
Since grade 1, I played as a defender for a local soccer team. I did try other positions including goalie, but I always found myself gravitating back towards defence. Due to my imposing presence on the field, I won MVP almost every other year.
I am the person on the left in red.
Skiing
For over a decade, I have been an active skier hitting the mountains every winter. Recently, I primarily ski on Cypress mountain, but before I would go to grouse once every week during the ski season.
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Vex Robotics
My journey in my school’s VEX robotics team started in 2018 when I was in grade 8. In my team, I was elected as team lead and also took on the role of driver on top of building and occasionally coding the robot, although we did have a main coder on the team as well.
Me at a robotics tournament in 2018 (I am the one in yellow on the right).