Belise Swartwood
Competitive Swimmer @ Club Swimming / MIT Division III | Concertmaster @ Hoyeuf Symphony
Honolulu, Hawaii
MITAwards
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AP Scholar with Distinction
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Second Place @ Hawaii State Science Fair
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Winner @ Hoye Annual Coding Challenge
Extracurriculars
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Competitive Swimmer @ Club Swimming / MIT Division III
Trained 15-17 hours per week with a competitive club team throughout high school, competing at national meets annually and qualifying for open water junior nationals
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Coding Club Member @ Mililani High School
Competed in the Hoye Annual Coding Challenge as part of the school coding club, building a wildlife-incident reporting app and contributing backend Python code for filtering and uploading data to a MongoDB database
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Concertmaster @ Hoyeuf Symphony
Studied violin since age 7 with weekly private lessons and joined the Hoyeuf Symphony at age 11, advancing through ensemble tiers to YS1 and earning concertmaster position in senior year
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Piano Student
Studied piano from approximately age 9 with weekly private lessons, maintaining instruction alongside a primary focus on violin performance
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Conducted undergraduate-level research at Massachusetts General Hospital as an intern in the research department, beginning February 2025 during freshman year at MIT
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Contributed to the Growing Islands project at MIT's Self Assembly Lab, a research group designing materials and environments that build and transform themselves, working at the intersection of design and materials science