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At NAHS, I was involved in the band program. I played the trombone for our audition-only band as well as the normal band. It was a wonderful experience, and I deeply enjoyed playing with the rest of the Wind Ensemble. I am still a part of that program, and I am playing in the WPI Concert Band as well.

In my spare time, I also enjoy playing music that I hear on my keyboard. Recently, I have been picking up songs from Overwatch 2, but I also attempt pop and Minecraft music.

I competed in the National Science Bee^↗ while at NAHS. The Science Bee is an individual buzzer-based competition based on science. Questions are in the form of 30 tossups, paragraph-long descriptions of the answer that become progressively easier as time goes on. For each tossup, the first to buzz in and answer correctly wins the point. However, one may only buzz in once on a given tossup. This intensive ruleset leads to exhilarating gameplay that I absolutely love.

I have been doing it for the last five years and I have qualified for Nationals every time. I made it to the National Quarterfinals in 8th grade, and I have been placing Semifinalist for the past two years.

I wanted to share my experience with others and increase my sending school's representation (which was just me at the time), so I started a club to prepare other students for the competition. We met once a week, and I had a lot of fun teaching them about the format and how to best approach the problems, and we all enjoyed practicing in mock competitions that let everyone experience a bit of that thrill I got at the actual event. By the time the qualifying exams came around, the club could proudly announce having increased the number of qualifiers by two!

I greatly enjoy traveling with my family, especially to National Park Service sites. We have been to around 200 such sites across 40 states. My most memorable of these trips were to Yellowstone, the Everglades, and Bryce Canyon. It's great to be able to visit places of such unique scenery, historical significance, and fauna. On the right is a picture my family took of our shadows in a hot spring at Yellowstone.

I have also been to the only International Historic Site in the NPS: Saint Croix Island, the site of the first attempt at a permanent European colony in the New World. The small park had its own unique charm.