During 8th grade, I decided to create my own club. This would be known as the Computer Applications Club. I had an interest in how computers worked and various useful digital tools. With permission of my science teacher, I was able to use his classroom to host my club weekly during lunch. We talked about many things such as video editing tools, coding languages, parts of a computer, visual editing tools, 3D CAD, and even artificial intelligence!
Another club I started was the History Club with two of my friends. We launched our club off and covered an important historical topic one week to many interested Hopkins students.
At the end of every school year, our school distributes certificates to students that were specially chosen by teachers for their hard work. I won an award by Madame Chabot in 8th grade for the French elective. She teaches French, manages leadership and ASB, and is the beating heart of our school.
I took part in my school's talent show for two years. The first year I was an emcee, and I was an emcee again as well as a singer for one of the performances.
I had already done debate for sometime in elementary school and I decided to pursue that interest by joining the debate club and later transferring to the school's debate team for two years. In 7th grade, my partner and I made it to semifinals of an international tournament (representing our school). It was in this tournament that I received the rank of 5th best speaker.
WEB stands for Where Everybody Belongs. During the end of 7th grade, I applied to be a WEB leader. Here, I did some training and became an official WEB leader who helped incoming 6th graders on WEB day. We guided them around campus and helped them make friends for a good part of their first year at Hopkins.
In 7th grade, I also joined the Hawk Editorial. This was an after-school program led by an English and film teacher, Mr. Parekh. For my first year, I wrote a few articles that can be found online here. My second year, I got chosen to be part of the leadership team of the Editorial. I was the Co-Head Writer and I also wrote 1 article this year while revising other articles, helping with layout, and creating advertisements. My articles can be found here:
My school counselor, Ms. Kim, gave me the opportunity to join the math peer tutoring team for the second semester of my final year in middle school. I met with 6th and 7th graders after school evrey week and helped them with homework and practice.
Also, I signed up for the Science Olympiad team of Hopkins (Team Orange). I represented my team for 4 events (Codebusters, Dynamic Planet, Experimental Design, and Write It Do It).