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Riptiva Roy

Riptiva Roy

Karate | Model United Nations Delegate

Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton
GPA1600 SATSAT / ACTBSE EngineeringIntended major

Awards

  1. 1

    Dutch Mathematical Olympiad Semifinalist (Top 9%)

  2. 2

    Service & Action Award

  3. 3

    Karate Club Championship (2019)

  4. 4

    Best Delegate Awards (Model UN)

  5. 5

    Piano Competition Finalist

Extracurriculars

  1. 1

    Self-Directed Robotics

    Built independent robotics projects across grades 9-12 without a school team, designing and coding a bipedal walking robot (StrideBot), a six-legged insect-gait robot (HeXplorer), and an app-controlled robotic arm (ClutcherClaw); published all project code across 16 public repositories

  2. 2

    Karate

    Trained in karate at a local club as a second brown belt, served briefly as a part-time trainer, and competed in local Kata and Kumite competitions

  3. 3

    Model United Nations Delegate

    Served as a Model UN delegate in grade 10, participating in 7 to 10 conferences in a single year and earning Best Delegate recognition at conferences in the Netherlands

  4. 4

    Materials Research Student, TU Delft

    Selected as 1 of 10 students from roughly 5,000 applicants for a pre-university materials research program at Delft University of Technology, contributing to particle-physics experiments involving neutron tomography of microstructures

  5. 5

    Classical Pianist & Composer

    Studied classical piano formally for two years before continuing self-directed practice and composing original music, reaching the finals of international piano and national composition competitions including the Prinses Christina composition competition

  6. 6

    Piano Teacher (Own Business)

    Founded a piano-teaching business at age 14, developing an original curriculum and teaching students in her local community since grade 8

  7. 7

    Student Council President

    Elected student council president for two years, leading community projects that redesigned the recreational hall, introduced healthier vending options, provided free sanitary products in bathrooms, and ran a three-month mini-course teaching coding to grade 8 students

  8. 8

    Chess Player

    Self-taught chess player who placed second in a school tournament and first in a ranked city tournament

  9. 9

    School Newspaper Writer & Poet

    Wrote stories, poems, and articles for the school newspaper and self-published an original narrative poetry book

  10. 10

    Club Soccer Player

    Played midfield for city club teams at the under-15 and under-17 girls levels in grades 9-10, competing in local championships and winning the city league in 2022

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