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Belise Swartwood

Belise Swartwood

Competitive Swimmer @ Club Swimming / MIT Division III | Concertmaster @ Hoyeuf Symphony

Honolulu, Hawaii
MIT
4.48GPA34 ACTSAT / ACTMathematics and FinanceIntended major

Awards

  1. 1

    AP Scholar with Distinction

  2. 2

    ISEF Finalist - Convolutional Neural Network Medical Imaging Project

  3. 3

    Second Place @ Hawaii State Science Fair

  4. 4

    Winner @ Hoye Annual Coding Challenge

Extracurriculars

  1. 1

    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

  2. 2

    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

  3. 3

    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

  4. 4

    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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    Undergraduate Researcher @ Massachusetts General Hospital

    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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    Researcher @ MIT Self Assembly Lab

    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

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