Aryahi Padmavati Narvekar

Hello! I am a freshman at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. I am majoring in Neuroscience on the pre-medicine track. Since I started my spelling journey, I have always been fascinated by etymology, which has helped me unravel the rich history and connections behind the words we use. Besides spelling, I am also an avid reader, artist, and I love to listen to music. You might never find me without my AirPods on! Here is a short list of activities that I have enjoyed outside of school.

• School champion for 4 years - 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021.
• Conducting Montgomery township school spelling bee competitions. 
• Per request from Language supervisor created video for promoting Spelling bee @ Montgomery schools.
• Official pronouncer for Montgomery school.
• Spelling club inception with my brother in Montgomery township - 2019.
• Teaching art of spelling to students in India since 2020.
• Designed and Co-Developed spellmentors.com with my brother. 

• 2nd Degree Black Belt - Kukkiwon certified.
• Training for Assistant Instructor at Ahn's Taekwondo academy and conducting classes.
• Conducted classes for training other Black Belt candidates.
• 1st Degree Black Belt - Kukkiwon certified.

• Started professional violin training - 2016 with Anne Ku and continuing with Eli Schaffer.
• Performed at the Nicholas Music Center at Rutgers University and Alexander Hall at Princeton University.
• Member of the coveted Greater Princeton Youth orchestra.
• I play 2nd chair-first violin in my school’s symphonic orchestra.

• Research focusing on brain development and neural stem cell recognition using zebrafish in the Karlstrom Lab @ University of Massachusetts Amherst.
• Student speaker at The Global Health Leaders Conference at Johns Hopkins University.
• Volunteering at Children’s Specialized Hospital, RWJBarnabas Health, Hamilton, NJ
• USA Biology Olympiad (USABO), Semi-Finalist, 2024.
• Designed and developed - Skyspecialschool.org for a Special Needs children school in India.
• Research on underlying factors and their influence, contributing to the heterogeneity in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).
• Research on relation between effect of type of Music and Neuroscience and presented live at the Symposium of rising scholars.
• HarvardX courses  : 
  • Fundamentals of Neuroscience, Part 1: The Electrical Properties of the Neuron. Certificate. 
  • Fundamentals of Neuroscience, Part 2: Neurons and Networks. Certificate. 
  • Fundamentals of Neuroscience, Part 3: The Brain. Certificate. 
• Pre-college - Columbia university
• Member of the highly competitive Model UN delegation and represented Montgomery at the tri-state conference.
• Constituent of the exceptional Somerset Youth leadership council.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman, Obsessed by Allison Britz, Verity by Colleen Hoover, Pandemic by Robert Cook, and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

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