Senior, Jericho High School - June 2027

Weighted GPA: 4.1360 (as of August 2026) - Stellar academic record with strong course rigor (11 AP level courses and 4 college level courses in High School, including Clinical Healthcare).

Diploma (American Tamil Academy) - 8 years of Tamil language study

Highlights:

• The Congressional Award Gold Medal for Young Americans - Earned this highest recognition in 2025 for accomplishments in the fields of Voluntary Public Service, Personal Development, Physical Fitness, and Expedition/Exploration.

• Diploma (American Tamil Academy) - 8 years of Tamil language study

• President’s Volunteer Service Award (Gold) - Received in 2019, having completed 100 hours of community service.

• Outstanding Academic Achievement - College Board National Recognition

• AP Scholar with distinction award from the College Board

• Inducted into National Honor Society (2026)

• Inducted into Spanish Honor Society (2025)

• Currently, pursuing Clinical healthcare as a course in Senior year - Receiving hands-on training in patient care, emergency medicine, and clinical healthcare practices, patient assessment and emergency response, with practical training and exposure to medical professionals. Preparing for the New York State EMT-B Certification Exam, completed FEMA (National Disaster & Emergency Management University) training and received Certificates of Achievement in Introduction to the Incident Command System (ICS) and Introduction to the National Incident Management System (NIMS) as part of the Clinical Healthcare course in High school.

• Girl Scouts Silver Award for community service (2023), currently working towards Gold Award.

• Author - Wrote and published a Chapter for a book that was released at the International book fair in New Delhi (2023) under the guidance of Dr. Srinivas Rao. Title of the book: “Path to Nobel for You” (a book that explored the journey of several Nobel laureates). This book was published in print and on KDP/Amazon.com.

• National Spanish Exam - Silver award (2023), Honorable mention (2025)

• Global Service award and Global Citizen Leadership certificate from United Planet for my work with International Cultural Youth Exchange Tanzania.

• Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) - First place in Introduction to Public Speaking category (First at Regionals, finalist at State Leadership Conference (SLC) and qualified for (and attended) the  National Leadership Conference (June-July 2025).  

• Ready Set Lead (RSL), Emerging Leaders - First place in the Jericho Future Business Leaders of America Competition.

• Completed Tamil language proficiency studies from Level 1 to Level 8 (Final level) through LI Arts.

• National Finalist in History Day 2023 (Performance category) - First place New York State and moved on to the Nationals, National Finalist and made it to the runoffs (Top 10) for my project, “Susan Ahn Cuddy: The Pioneer Who Broke the Glass Ceiling for Asian-American Women in the Military”. Featured on National History Day’s Instagram account.

• Discovery Award Competition - Semi-finalist (2023), conducted by the Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes.

• New York State Archives Student Research Award - First place (2020) for my research project on “Seneca Falls Convention; Paving the way towards suffrage and equal rights for women”.

• Submitted a scientific paper on risk and spread mitigation strategies, prevention and cure for pandemics to North South Foundation, a national educational non-profit organization (2020-21).

• Completed Level 1, 2 and 3 of the RSL Awards (Griffin College, London) dance certification program (Indian classical Bharatanatyam).

• Friedlander Upstander Nominee by HMTC (Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County) - Certificate of recognition (2022).