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Andrew Haynes

Andrew Haynes

Founder & Director @ Critical Period Initiative | Endangered Language Intern @ BASAbali

United States
HarvardStanfordPrincetonYalePennBrownNorthwesternGeorgetownUT AustinOhio State
4.0 UWGPA1590 SATSAT / ACTLinguistics or Computer Science, with possible East Asian StudiesIntended major

Awards

  1. 1

    First Place @ Texas State Japanese Language Speech Contest

  2. 2

    Highest Placing from Texas @ NYT Open Letters Opinion-Writing Contest

  3. 3

    First Place (Category) @ Local Science Fair

  4. 4

    Top 10 Marketing Exam @ DECA ICDC

  5. 5

    Certificate of Achievement @ Princeton Prize in Race Relations

Extracurriculars

  1. 1

    Founder & Director @ Critical Period Initiative (After-School Language Immersion Program)

    Founded and directed Critical Period Initiative, a free after-school program teaching youth language immersion through digital bilingual storybooks; recruited and led a team of fellow high schoolers to build and sustain the program over 4 years

  2. 2

    NSLI-Y Scholar & Alumni Ambassador @ National Security Language Initiative for Youth

    Earned a competitive U.S

  3. 3

    Computational Linguistics Research Assistant @ University of North Texas & Indiana University Bloomington

    Secured two computational-linguistics research assistantships by cold-emailing faculty the summer of junior year: at the University of North Texas, built cognate classifiers and a prototype linguistics assistant to trace language evolution; at Indiana University Bloomington, optimized OCR for under-resourced and endangered scripts with a focus on Garo, improving accuracy through dataset refinement and low-resource NLP strategies

  4. 4

    Endangered Language Intern @ BASAbali

    Interned as an endangered-language intern at BASAbali, an Indonesian nonprofit preserving the endangered Balinese language; led a Kickstarter campaign that raised $12K for a Balinese language-learning app and drafted grant proposals and funding applications to support the organization

  5. 5

    Podcast Host @ Chronic Illness Interview Series (Spotify)

    Hosted a Spotify podcast interviewing 7 individuals living with chronic illnesses about navigating education and securing school accommodations, raising awareness of accessibility in schools

  6. 6

    District 4 President @ Texas DECA

    Elected District 4 President of Texas DECA, a competitive business and marketing student organization, representing 1,000+ members across 21 counties and 30 schools; helped launch the 'Chapter Buddy' program and supported the district at regional, state, and international events

  7. 7

    Violinist @ School Orchestra

    Played violin in the school orchestra throughout high school and held a student leadership position within the ensemble

  8. 8

    Co - President @ Japanese National Honor Society

    Served as Co-President of the school's Japanese National Honor Society, launching a peer-tutoring initiative and driving greater underclassmen engagement with the program

  9. 9

    Volunteer Translator @ Mandarin YouTube Educators

    Provided free Japanese subtitling on YouTube for two Mandarin-language educators whose videos lacked Japanese captions, using language skills to expand the accessibility of their educational content

  10. 10

    Summer Scholar @ Summer Linguistics Institute for Youth Scholars (Ohio State University)

    Selected for the Summer Linguistics Institute for Youth Scholars (SLIYS) at Ohio State University, a two-week program introducing the scientific study of language across phonetics, morphology, syntax, and language documentation

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