Led the school's Girls in Engineering, Math and Science club from sophomore through senior year, hosting monthly STEM events, running tutoring and study groups, and building an online library of curated resources across STEM subjects
Founded a girls' STEM club for 40+ students at a local middle school as a Girl Scout Gold Award project, teaching game development on Scratch, and additionally ran an 8-week summer coding program in Java and Python
Co-founded and co-led the school's Japanese Culture Club, hosting bi-weekly meetings on Japanese holidays and customs and launching a YouTube channel to teach the Japanese language
Led a 50+ member Red Cross youth club, organizing meetings and coordinating virtual and in-person volunteer opportunities for members
Competed in HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America) in the Biomedical Laboratory Science event, advancing from regional and state champion to sixth place at the International Leadership Conference
Conducted summer laboratory research at UT Austin studying lung cancer proteins and synthesizing peptides derived from them
Founded a service project during the pandemic, leading 50+ volunteers to write 2,500+ handwritten cards for residents of local nursing homes isolated from their families
Competed in cross country all four years of high school as a varsity team member, training roughly two hours a day, and also ran track
Performed in school orchestra all four years of high school and competed at the regional level
Built a website to close the STEM-resource gap for girls in Japan, interviewing female professionals in Japan about their careers and curating learning resources in programming and engineering