A month at Waterloo without a smartphone, a week of quantum mechanics with the IQC,
a summer instructing children at UBC, and a research internship in Heidelberg.
SHAD ’25 — University of Waterloo
Participant · UnpluggedSHAD Canada54 students · one month at Waterloo
A national STEM summer programme where 54 students spend a month at the
University of Waterloo on research projects, enrichment activities and
STEM workshops.
Unplugged meant volunteering to spend the month without
a smartphone, relying on a flip phone instead.
Selected to organise the final evening of the month-long programme
— a concert showcasing the talents developed across the month.
The event hosted 100+ individuals with around
20 performances across 2.5–3 hours.
SHAD Waterloo 2025 — group excursion, Variety Night choir, and a group workshop discussion
With the SHAD cohort
QSYS ’25 — Institute for Quantum Computing
Selected participantQuantum School for Young StudentsUniversity of Waterloo · one week, online
A week-long online summer programme hosted by the Institute for Quantum
Computing, where selected high schoolers take part in lectures and
discussions covering linear algebra and topics within
quantum mechanics.
UBC Geering Up — Summer ’25
Junior InstructorUBC Geering Up30+ hours · K through Grade 7
Assisted instructors during class time and led one lesson per week
across kindergarten, 1/2, 3/4, 5/6 and 6/7 classes — alongside
lunch supervision, recess activities, one-to-one support and emergency
response.
Girls Who Code
Girls Who Code Sisterhood
Community
Member of the Girls Who Code Sisterhood network.
Summer Immersion ’25
Programme
Project-based summer immersion programme.
Pathways ’26
3 certificates
Intro to Data Science, Data Science for Good, and Basic Neural Networks.
Summer Immersion Program ’25 certificate of completion
Game Jam course certificate of completion
Haus der Astronomie — Heidelberg, 2026
1 of 9 selectedInternational Summer InternshipMax Planck–affiliated · ~1 month
Selected as one of nine international students, representing Canada,
for a research internship run in partnership with the Max Planck
Institute for Astronomy and Heidelberg University.