finding more opportunities
I am taking a gap year because I refuse to compromise on the school I want to go to and have only done half my A levels so I will be taking the other half in October and I am thinking of retaking the SAT probably in September or October as well, I am doing a Tedx talk, a poetry competition where I am writing about environmental sustainability which matches my application spike of a STEM focused student who particularly pays attention to "hidden systems" (like uncertainty systems, legal legibility systems, incentive systems, if that makes sense) I can also attach some of my other acitvities like to show the vibe ive been going for forth past like 3 years but I am trying to find other stuff to do in these few months before I sit my exams and send my applications in November. please help me find competitions, ideas, other stuff that!!! thank you so much (also please feel free to tell me if my plan doesn't really make sense, I'll take any advice)
my activity list
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World Scholar's Cup, was second in my country.
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worked at as an ai research intern where they were training computer vision models to identify undocumented AI supercomputers from satellite imagery.
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founded a "maker community" in my city where it grew to 80+ people. we met up weekly for 38 weeks.
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research intern for my local government where I helped research on national land formalization policies.
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I was a volunteer data science instructor at an extremely poor rural area in my country where I taught foundational data science concepts to primary students.
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I did a self directed project where I investigated AI's impact on R&D productivity and designed and deployed a survey to 200+ engineers & scientists to quantify efficiency gains from AI tools.
Posted Jul 3, 2026, 6:24 PM UTC