Hobbies
Airsoft, Judo, Piano, Drawing, Video Games

Clubs
Robotics Club, Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams, Pep Band, Dixieland Combo, Pit Orchestra, Mock Trial

Experience
I am a member of the Spanish Honor Society as well as the National Honor Society. I have won numerous local and state solo and ensemble piano competitions. I have also placed in the top 30 of the University of Maryland High School Math Competition.

Biography
To tell the truth, I tried out for the US Physics Team just as an exercise to see how far I would get. I was quite surprised when I found out that I hadn't been eliminated after the first test. But I didn't worry too much about that. I did, after all, still have one more chance to get myself eliminated. As one can imagine, I was even more surprised when I got the letter in the mail saying that I had made it all the way to become one of the 24 students on the team.

Looking back through my life, I can see one recurring theme that pervades all that I think and do. I really like to build stuff. Destroying things is fun too, but it's a more lasting satisfaction to be able to create something new. Whenever I find myself doing nothing, I start to work on simplifying that design for a hovercraft or something or other that's floating around in my head so that I might actually be able to build one successfully. I hope to have my own machine shop someday, so I can get to work building all those wonderful machines that so desperately want to make it into the real world. And I suppose it would also be wise to take some time to learn how to use the equipment in a machine shop before I start trying to make things.

Now that I stop to think about it, there's another recurring theme in my life. That's music. I've been playing piano since I was four years old.I don't mind playing, but it's safe to say that I strongly dislike lessons. In fifth grade, I started learning to play trombone. I've barely practiced at home since then. That's partly because piano took up all the time I had to practice at home. It's also partly due to the fact that the trombone is a bit too loud to practice at night. Of course I must admit that it would be an untruth to say that laziness doesn't play a role here as well.

I plan to become an engineer, and sometime in the future, I intend to start my own company to work on robotics for applications in the military or in manufacturing.Robots can perform tasks that are either impossible or impractical for people to do. They don't need food, sleep, insurance, or pay. They don't go on strike either. They'd make perfect workers if they weren't so stupid. But perhaps that's a good thing.Nobody wants to look out their front window one morning only to discover that robots have taken over the world and enslaved the human race.