In the summer of 2019, I attended the Advanced Leadership Program offered by the City of Ottawa. In this 3 week program I learned many leadership styles and techniques and constantly applied them in real world experiences. This included summer camps, field trips, and more.

I was also certified in First Aid & CPR, AODA, CORE, SunSense, HighFive, and more. This program allowed me to practice and hone my leadership skills, teamwork skills, problem solving skills, adaptability, and my ability to stay calm and work under pressure.

During the last couple of months of 2019, I took on the responsibility of organizing an ODBA ranking tournament in Petawawa, Ontario. We organized and ran the entire tournament, with the help of volunteers from my badminton academy–Soong Badminton Academy.

I was mainly in charge of operating the Tournament Software, managing data, and making sure the data was correct at all times. I also monitored the tournament email for the countless emails from parents and players that needed help registering. In the end we had over 100 entries in 11 different events, including Singles, Doubles and Mixed for ages 13-18. This was my first introduction to simple databases and I taught myself how to read, modify, and understand the data.

During April of 2019, a few classmates and I decided to form a group to compete in the upcoming 2019-2020 VEX Robotics competitions. The 2019-2020 game was called “Tower Takeover”, where the objective was to use your robot to stack the tallest tower in a certain amount of time. The blocks were scattered in a 12ft by 12ft field, where two alliances composed of two robots would compete.

We designed, built, programmed, and tested the robot throughout the entire season, competing in many local tournaments. We used PROS and C++ to code the robot, including the autonomous features. At the end of the season, we qualified for provincials and placed in the top 20 at the provincial tournament.

During the 2019-2020 school year, I enrolled in the Java at a glance course at Carleton University. This weekly course was taught by Carleton Professor Alexey Godin. We learned many concepts in not only the realm of Java, but also computing, graphics, threading, and more. We made many small programs such as a program that prints the calendar of any year. This can be viewed on my GitHub.

Unfortunately, this course was cut short by the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020, however I still learned many valuable concepts and I was able to speak one-on-one with Professor Godin almost every lesson, as our class was under 20 people.

During the 2019-2020 school year, I worked weekly as a Program Organizer/Coordinator for the City of Ottawa. I worked at Manotick Arena and coordinated the weekly public and family skates. I had many responsibilities such as collecting payment, enforcing the many rules set by the city, maintaining the stands/boards of the rink, and more.

This job allowed me to sharpen my leadership skills, teamwork skills, my ability to work under pressure, and my quick and efficient organizational skills.

During the summer of 2020, I had the pleasure of being a part of Coolage's internship program. I worked with the web development team, improving both the front-end and the back-end of the website.

During my two months, I led the initiative of setting up and using Firebase for features on the website and the mobile application. I personally created a dynamic "website visits" counter that updates in real time, which has over 11700 website visits! I also designed and tested prototypes for other webpages using Figma and Photoshop.

The website can be found here.