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EDUCATION

Boston College High School (BCHigh), 09/2022-06/2026

Boston, MA 02115

STANDARD TESTS

        SAT: 1570 (Math 790; English 780), 12/07/2024

COLLEGE COURSES & GRADES

      Khoury College of Computer Science, Northeastern University, Boston MA

  • CS 1100: Computer Science and Its Applications ( A ), Fall 2023

  • CS 1101: Lab for CS 1101 ( A ), Fall 2023

  • CS 1800: Discrete Structures ( B+ ), Spring, 2024

  • CS 1802: Seminar for CS 1800 ( B+ ), Spring 2024

  • DS 3000: Foundations of Data Science ( A- ), Summer 2024

      MIT OpenCourseWare

  • Introduction to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science: on-going

  • BWSI Python Core 2024 and 2025, Beaver Works Summer Institute

  • Version Control: Git & Github 2024 and 2025, Beaver Works Summer Institute

  • Prerequisite Course for Embedded Security and Hacking 2024 and 2025, Beaver Works Summer Institute

RESEARCH

Project: Analyze Social Media about the Public's Use of Melatonin to Reflect the Public's Experience of Insomnia and Attitudes towards Seeking Treatment. 07/2024 – on going

Paid Internship, Research Assistant, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston MA

Advisor: Professor Lichuan Ye

Talk with patients and collect data in hospitals. Scrape healthcare product information using Requests and Beautiful Soup from the Amazon website. Clean, Process, Analyze and Visualize data using Python NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib, Seaborn and NLTK, etc.

Write a paper to be published as the second author, “Analyze the Impact of Melatonin on Effective Sleep through Social Media User Sentiment Analysis by Using Natural Language Processing Technology.”

Project: Analyzing and Visualizing the Distribution of Boston BlueBikes, 11/2023– on going

Leading Researcher & Organizer, BCHigh Computer Programming and AI Club
BlueBikes is a shared bike system established in the Boston metropolitan area in 2011. It has grown exponentially over the years. However, many stations often have a shortage of bikes during peak hours. I’ve led my club members to analyze the distribution of bike stations during peak hours in the Boston area and visualize the distribution of bike data on a Boston map. Future work will extend to 12 surrounding towns and cities with the BlueBike system. For such a big project with great benefits to our community, I hope my club will carry it on even after graduating high school. I will help the club continue to implement this project.

Publication: “Building and Growing a High School Computer Programming and AI Club.”

The paper was accepted by the 2025 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Northeast Conference in January 2025. As the only author to submit the paper to be published on the ASEE’s K-12 section on my business experience in establishing the CS/AI club and leading peers in research projects; also presented at the conference.

COMMUNITY SERVICES & WORK

MIT Leadership Training Institute(02/11/2023 – 05/07/2024)

Complete the 12-week weekend sessions. Work on a project analyzing Newton teachers' strikes and marches for promotions. Poster, workshop and presentation. Obtained a certificate.

Wellesley Chinese Language School, 09/2023 – on going

Instructor, Python Programming, 09/2023 – on going

Create syllabus. Teach a class of 4-7 young kids Python once per week. Communicate with their parents.

St. Marks Community Education Program, Boston & BCHigh, 2023 and 2024
Volunteer to teach ESL class for the non-profit organization. Help new immigrants with English language learning and citizenship preparation.

EXTRACURULUM

BCHigh Computer Programming and AI Club, 09/2023 – on going

Founder & President, Create the club. Recruit members, increasing from 5 to16 regular members. Meet weekly. Learn Python programming for data engineering, machine learning and deep learning with real-world datasets. Invite guest lectures.

LeetCode Accomplishments, 07/2024 – on going

Solved 54 problems in total for 27 easy, 23 medium and 4 hard levels. Plan to solve ~200 questions in my high school. (LeetCode/leetcode.com offers a comprehensive platform for a wide range of coding problems and various data structure and algorithmic challenges which have been used for interviews at top companies like Google, Facebook/Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix, and more.

Website Hosting, 12/2024 – on going

Create a website https://www.tomtech.blog/ documenting my high school journey. Use Wix as the hosting provider. Design the website. Plan to add interactive tools for more functionality.

Desktops Assemblies, 07/2023

Research computer components online. Looked for the right configuration for me to program and play games. Select brands and modules. Compared prices and choose products with the best cost-effectiveness. Place orders. Assemble the components. Install software: ASUS Z790 motherboard, Intel Core i7-12700K, DDR5 32GB, Radeon RX 7800XT, Water Cooling CPU Cooler, SSD 2TB, etc.

School Sports

Manager of Cross-Country Freshman Team, 09/2024 – on going

Member of Cross-Country JV Team, 09/2022 – on going

Member of Sailing JV Team, 03/2023 – on going

HONORS & AWARDS

Certificate of Honorable Merit for Outstanding Performance,

National Latin Examination   06/2024, 06/2023

National Honor Society, 12/2024

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Caitlin O’Connell

School & College Counselor

Boston College High School

150 Morrissey Blvd, Boston, MA 02125

coconnell@bchigh.edu

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