Hello, my name is Justin Keyo and I’m currently a Junior at the Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science’s Class of 2025. My interests include fencing, volunteering, robotics, and programming. When I have some time to myself, I enjoy watching movies or TV shows, hanging out with friends, and listening to music.
Outside of school, I enjoy fencing at the Worcester Fencing Club. I’ve been fencing for about 4 years and I love it! Specifically, for those that know, I have done about 6 months of foil fencing and 3 and a half years of epee fencing. I’ve fenced in several competitions, including the Pomme de Terre, and I am currently ranked D23.
I love to travel, and although I have never traveled on my own, some of my favorite memories are from travelling with my family around the world. In my travels, I’ve been to Canada, Mexico, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, France, Italy, and Switzerland. These trips were all incredible, but my favorite was Switzerland. Although I have many more countries on my bucket list, I’d like to go back to all these places to visit again.
Before coming to Mass Academy, I spent my freshman and sophomore years of high school at South High Community School in Worcester, where I was secretary of South’s Black Student Union and co-head of the robotics team. At the end of my sophomore year, my friends and I participated in our school’s annual dodgeball tournament, and my team won.
During my time here at Mass Academy, I volunteered at a variety of programs and organizations. Some of these include Loaves and Fishes food pantry, First Robotics, and Walkfit. This upcoming summer, I plan to volunteer at Planned Parenthood in Worcester. These helped contribute to my 50 hour goal for Mass Academy.
Loaves and Fishes is a organization that has representation at my church, which made it easy to participate in. They ran things like food drives, walks for hunger and more to help benefit the community around us and the world. I participated in the hunger walk annually and I participated in the food drive once a month.
As a member of the robotics team, I was required to do some community service for the robotics community. I chose to volunteer at a middle school robotics competition as a field resetter. This was a fun event becuase you got to see the middle schoolers participate in robotics while also hanging out with friends on the team. It was definitely a win-win experience.
Planned Parenthood is the nations leading provider of sexual health care. To me, this is an important facet of the healthcare industry and one that is continuously cast aside. I plan to volunteer here and although you need trainings in order to do so, I belive it will be beneficial to my understanding of healthcare and my wellbeing as I will learn a lot more about reproductive health than I knew prior.