Hello, I am Ivan Klevanski, and I am a junior at Mass Academy. My primary interests include programming, mathematics, and education in general; when I get tired from learning, I may play a video game or spend time with my family to relieve my mind from work. When I was younger, I liked to collect various rocks, crystals, and minerals and add them to my collection; however, as I grew older, my hobbies became more inclined towards programming. During the summer of 2017, I began teaching myself C# and made a few windows forms applications in Visual Studio and uploaded them on my secondary website. More recently, I was working in the Unity game engine and made a few small but challenging games. You can check out all of my projects here.

I was born in 2001 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and now live in Worcester. In 2006, I attended the elementary school, Tatnuck Magnet, where I met most of my friends. In 5th grade I got introduced to the MathAltitude School of Mathematics and began regularly attending it after school up to this date. There, I acquired most of my math knowledge. In 2014, I attended Forest Grove Middle School, where I established my first priorities ethic, developed most of my mature behavior, and got to know a few more people. In 2016, I went to Doherty Memorial High School, where I developed my strong ethic for learning and doing exceptional in school. It was there where I got my first experience in Computer Aided Design and created a few exceptional projects for the major learning fairs that were held at the school. Combined with the knowledges gained from MathAltitude and my working ethic from Doherty, I was ready to go to Mass Academy and experience academic challenges that I had never dreamed of.

I gained significant interest in mathematics while attending MathAltitude. By the time I went into Forest Grove I knew that I had a much bigger experience in mathematics than most students in the Worcester Public Schools system, which encouraged me to become an expert in the field. In response to my growing ethic for learning mathematics, I began applying similar principles into other academic subjects: English, science, history, foreign language, and other fields. By the end of the first quarter term of 9th grade at Doherty, I had a well-developed working ethic for all subjects that I took during that year and ended the year with high A grades. During that summer, I also gained an interest in programming: My doodles of conceptual windows applications inspired me to learn how to make them in real life so I installed Visual Studio and began learning C#; from there, my hobbies for programming began.

Before the start of junior year at Mass Academy, I volunteered at two different places over the summer to earn some community service hours. The first place I volunteered at was the Tower Hill Botanical Garden in West Boylston, where I was given positions in the information center office as well as the garden itself. At the garden, I was in charge of removing weeds from the main plants while in the office I helped the faculty scan a giant stack of documents to create digital copies. While I worked in the garden, my eyes got lots of rest from the computer since I heavily utilized it for past school projects; weeding also gave me experience on which plants are harmful to others and which should be kept, even though most of my experience solely came from intuition. At the office, the conditions were much more comfortable and the process of scanning documents was relatively easy but repetitive. Although I already have some expertise in computers, I got to practice organizing all the scanned documents and analyze which documents can / need to be scanned as some documents either repeated or were out of paper that was not compatible with the printer. Nevertheless, my experience at Tower Hill was very delightful and beneficial and I would highly recommend people to volunteer there if they like gardening and or managing files. Below are some pictures of garden wildlife that I managed to take after my shift.

The second place where I volunteered at was at my apartment condominium. At my apartment condominium there was only one person who was in charge of watering the plants and so I therefore, out of kindness, wanted to assist her with that duty while also getting some community service hours. On each day when the weather was forecasted to be hot and dry, I would wake up slightly early and go down into the condominium garden and water the plants there. In doing so I developed a system of how much I would water the plants on a given day depending on the weather forecast. In my system: I would water each plant for exactly 1 minute and 30 seconds if the temperature is from 20-25 degrees Celsius, 2 minutes and 30 seconds if the temperature is from 25-28 degrees Celsius, and 3 minutes and 30 seconds if temperature is higher than 28. While watering the plants, I also got to witness many different dwellers of the garden , like this mole below: