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Education
- Walled Lake Central High School
- Walled Lake, MI
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- Graduated 1st in class of over 500, June 2004 — weighted GPA 4.2/4.0 (4.0/4.0 unweighted)
- ACT: 34; SAT: 780 verbal, 800 math; AP Calculus: 5 on A/B, 5 on both subsections of B/C
- National Honor Society; varsity soccer, 2002/2003 seasons; spotlight operator in 3 musicals, stagehand during 4 plays
- MIT
- Cambridge, MA
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- Intend to major in chemistry, but may switch to computer science depending on how the semester goes
- Projected graduation date: June 6, 2008
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Work Experience
- Created CAD designs of houses and additions from hand drawings for local architecture design firm (June 2002–August 2004)
- Refereed youth soccer games for two local leagues (Spring 2000–present)
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Leadership
- Organized two weekend backpacking trips for an Order of the Arrow (Boy Scouting's National Honor Society) chapter as Vice–Chief of Activities (Spring 2002–Spring 2003)
- Learned leadership techniques at a week-long Junior Leader Training Conference, gaining valuable management skills (July 2002)
- Developed a 6–hour leadership course based on JLTC and used it to teach other youth Boy Scout leaders (October 2002)
- Served as senior patrol leader during a week-long Boy Scout summer camp, balancing classes and activities with the constraints of leadership (August 2002)
- Coordinated and directed an Eagle Scout service project to purchase and construct 6 benches for a 100–person outdoor amphitheater to benefit a local church (February–June 2004)
- Served as module owner for the Mozilla Firefox Help Viewer and End-User Help projects, ensuring the presence of quality help documentation in Firefox 1.0 (September 2004–present)
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Skills
- Computer languages: some C/C++, PHP, some Perl/Python, some Z80 assembler, Scheme (after spring 2005), XUL (XML UI Language), HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Wrote, proofread, and critiqued end–user documentation for the Mozilla Firefox End-User Help project (October 2003–present)
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Honors/Awards:
- Eagle Scout (August 2004)
- Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship (2004)
- National Merit Semifinalist (2004)
- Three-time National Spelling Bee finalist, 1998–2000 (respectively 85th, 50th, and 5th of roughly 250)