Q. In what grade are you currently enrolled?

A. I am currently enrolled in 12th grade at Salisbury High School.

Q. Who is in your family? Please provide the first names of your family members: parents, siblings and pets.

A. My family is comprised of me, my mother Laura and my father David.

Q. What is your favorite subject? Why?

A. My favorite subject would have to be between social studies, Spanish and math. Mainly math because it requires me to think critically. However social studies and Spanish fit in well since I am getting a better understanding of history which I quite enjoy in both social studies and Spanish.

Q. Have you received any special awards or recognition?

A. I have received an award from being a member of the social media advisory at school, I have lettered in soccer and I have been awarded a scholarship award for my creativity during the beginning of the pandemic when I was 3D printing masks on my 3D printer.

Q. Are you involved in any extracurricular activities? How has COVID-19 impacted these activities?

A. I am involved in many extracurriculars. The main one I have been able to participate in during the pandemic is soccer. I am also known for running and lifting weights with my personal running coach as well. COVID-19 made it harder for soccer since when we first started up in the summer we were only allowed so many people for the sessions until the actual season started. We were only allowed to take the mask off when we were running around or playing in small games before the season.

Q. What is your next goal after high school?

A. My main goal after high school is to graduate college with a dual degree in mechanical engineering and computer science.

Q. What do you consider your biggest challenge to date?

A. My biggest challenge to date has to have been trying to navigate virtual learning, mainly due me being someone who enjoys social interactions face to face.

Q. For what would you like to be remembered?

A. I would like to be remembered as someone who is really intelligent, kind and hard working.

Q. Whom do you admire? Why?

A. The person I admire the most would have to be Steve Jobs mainly because of his story of how he didn’t go to college but still started a company out of his garage and made his life more worthwhile than it would have probably been if he had gone to college.

Q. Do you have any advice for your peers?

A. My biggest advice to my peers would be to try to be optimistic as you start getting closer to the end of the year. Especially as a senior, you start seeing the light at the end of the tunnel but you aren’t done until the final grades are published in the portal. Sometimes it leads people to stop and not think that they might not be able to graduate or pass all because of one grade.