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 · Unplugged
SHAD Canada
54 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.
Wildfire evacuation research
IQC quantum workshop
CEMC applied maths
Texas Instruments robotics
Research project
Rural Wildfire Evacuation
SHAD research programme
Worked on helping individuals in rural Canada evacuate efficiently
during wildfires.
Logistics team
Coffeehouse
Community project · 70 guests
Coordinated a murder mystery masquerade party for 70
people, overseeing the project’s 19 members with two
others to make sure the event ran smoothly.
Co-Director
Variety Night
100+ attendees · ~20 performances
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.
QSYS ’25 — Institute for Quantum Computing
Selected participant
Quantum School for Young Students
University 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 Instructor
UBC Geering Up
30+ 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.
Haus der Astronomie — Heidelberg, 2026
1 of 9 selected
International Summer Internship
Max 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.