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
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
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
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
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
Founded a piano-teaching business at age 14, developing an original curriculum and teaching students in her local community since grade 8
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
Self-taught chess player who placed second in a school tournament and first in a ranked city tournament
Wrote stories, poems, and articles for the school newspaper and self-published an original narrative poetry book
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