Founded and led the school's Code Club as president; coached teams to compete in web/app development and programming contests including the American Computer Science League, the NC Ready Set App competition, and local hackathons; directed virtual statewide coding camps reaching 100+ K-9 students during the summer of sophomore year
Served as Math Club president and co-founded a statewide math tutoring initiative, coordinating tutors for an online platform; designed and hosted a virtual national middle-school math contest spanning 11+ states and coached members for the AMC and other math competitions
Performed as a soprano in the Guilford College Choir and Lumina travel ensemble; selected by the choir director as one of five representatives for the All-Collegiate All-State Festival Choir at Duke Chapel and sang one semester in Lumina's all-female octet
Co-founded school dance team; performed at school events and competed locally for 4 years.
Served as parliamentarian, historian, and media manager on student council and as PTSA student rep; founded and ran the school's YouTube channel (43 videos, 9,200+ views at time of applying), grew the Instagram following by 65%, and produced media across YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook
Competed on FIRST robotics teams from middle school (FLL) through 10th grade (FRC) as team media manager and technician; served as fundraising lead for the school's robotics program (one FRC and four FTC teams), writing grants and raising funds
Competed as a varsity member of the school's Science Olympiad team across STEM events
Worked as a Sensei instructor and camp leader at Code Ninjas, teaching students ages 3-16 to code in Python, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and C# for games and animation; solo-operated video-making and MIT Scratch camps managing ~20 children
Completed a full-time summer research internship at the Neuromuscular Rehabilitation Engineering Lab (UNC-NC State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering), studying neuromuscular control of ankle prostheses using electromyographic (EMG) signals; presented results at a conference and gained skills in MATLAB and Visual3D
Volunteered as a zoo docent for two years and museum ambassador for three years at the Greensboro Science Center, guiding and educating visitors and monitoring exhibits; selected by the volunteer department head to conduct a psychology research project partnered with UNCG's lab