FAQs
PAID EXPERIENCE
Congregation of Tikvat Jacob, Manhattan Beach, CA — Lead Madrich (student leader)
SEPTEMBER 2022 - PRESENT
High level of seniority and leadership
Training, general assistance, curriculum delivery, food distribution, attendance oversight, and a number of other roles
Started off at volunteer in 2022, hired as paid employee in late 2023
7-8 hours a week–4 on Sundays for Sunday School and 3 on Wednesdays for b’nai mitzvah tutoring and general office work
Torrance Theater Company, Torrance CA — Program Leader
JUNE 2024 - PRESENT
Summer camp counselor and activity coordinator
After period of counseling work, contract was extended to include assistance roles throughout the school year for set construction, sound work for band shows, and manual labor
Employee of the City of Torrance, which owns the company
Started off by volunteering for company and was hired through interview with about 20 other candidates (6 accepted to position)
UNPAID/VOLUNTEERING WORK
Technical Theater, Mira Costa — Volunteer(?)
AUGUST 2021 - PRESENT
~554 recorded thespian hours as of 6/9/2025
Obtained International Thespian Society membership in 2024
6 theatre productions at Costa + 2 class productions
Won 1st place in Set Design in 2025 Fullerton Technical Theatre Festival competition out of 4 schools; led a team of 31 students in the construction of the aforementioned set over an interval of five months.
5 different benefits (2 holiday benefits, 2 AIDS benefits, and 1 Fire Relief benefit event)
Lighting Designer and Board Operator in Senior Scenes 2 years in a row (mentee in my sophomore year → mentor in my Junior year, teaching a mentee how to operate a light board and build cues)
No Place for Hate Committee, Mira Costa High School — Member
SEPTEMBER 2023 - PRESENT
Monthly meetings; about 20 hours a year if activities are included (~40 so far)
Committee where I work with the vice principal and other students to plan activities and enact policies that combat hate and discrimination at Mira Costa.
Have organized pledge-signing activities, an anonymous report form for the school, and a survey to gain data on how safe students felt at school and the amount of hate they encountered in it (administered at the end of the 2024 school year).
Worked with administrators to create and participate in a student fishbowl for a Anti-Bias teacher training on 5/22/2025
National Honors Society, Mira Costa High School branch — Member
NOVEMBER 2024 - PRESENT
Became a member by doing a 20 hour Individual Service Project, which had to be approved and signed off by an advisor and school admin
Equity, Diversity, Social Injustice, and Inclusion Committee, Mira Costa High School — Senior Class Representative
DECEMBER 2024 - PRESENT
Working with teachers to give student input to syllabus laws, teacher response to classroom conflicts, and to educate the teaching staff across my school about student experiences.
Board that collaborates with teachers and students to shape policies and trainings for teachers (unlike NPFH, which focuses on students)
Worked in tandem with this Committee and No Place for Hate for the production of a number of staff training led by students in interrupting hate and bias (elaborated upon below)
Have hosted and helped to organize two “Interrupting Bias” workshops in which students participated in a fishbowl discussion that teachers could observe and ask questions (one workshop on 5/20/2025 and one on 6/5/2025)
Anchorless Productions, Bay Area — Volunteer Set Designer
JANUARY 2025 - PRESENT
2 productions: Spongebob: The Musical (Sound Board Operator) and Tangled (Set Designer)
~50 hours so far
Nonprofit that puts on productions fully run by special needs actors and buddy actors that accompany them onstage
LEADERSHIP ROLES
Noar, Manhattan Beach, CA — President
MARCH 2022 - PRESENT
Elected President in May 2023
Jewish Youth Group hosted by Congregation of Tikvat Jacob and based around discussions about present issues + service acts
Co-founder of Teen Advisory Counsel → leading the charge to change Noar into a program that makes more of an impact, expanding it to encompass teen activities hosted by the Congregation of Tikvat Jacob and utilizing the teen advisory counsel to create engaging and meaningful activities for jewish youth
Worked with an advisor, Alison, to create the counsel mentioned above
Around 30 hours a year (have done it all three years of high school – monthly meetings)
Have hosted:
Purim carnival
Beach cleanups
Project Needs (food kitchen) partnership
Discussion panels and meetings about current events and identity in the context of them
Hosts one teen-based event every month
Restoring Rainbows, Manhattan Beach, CA — Branch Founder
JULY 2024 - PRESENT
Nonprofit that collects, restores, and donates school supplies to a number of organizations (currently partnered with School on Wheels and Salvation Army)
Hosted a 3 month long drop-off drive at a nearby synagogue (May 1-Sep.1) and an end-of-the-year collection event at Mira Costa High School (lasting the two final weeks of school)
Operates in the form of a school club, where my club members organize efforts to establish different donation box locations around the town and to make partnerships with different charities
Thespian Board, Mira Costa High School — Tech Secretary
MAY 2025 - PRESENT
Oversees planning of events and documenting of Thespian points for Mira Costa Drama/Tech students, assuring hours are accurate to their point equivalents
Assists students in obtaining International Thespian Society Membership once they have reached the point threshold to do so
INTERNSHIPS/BUSINESS-BASED ACTIVITIES
Paper Flower Business — Owner
DECEMBER 2024 - MAY 2024
Technically still operational – leftover supply being sold through pop-up events and festivals
Selling handmade flowers out of reused sheet music and book paper
60 flowers commissioned by my school’s drama department for sale as concessions in 2024 musical and have also attended an art fair where I sold around 50, along with ~20 sold through other means
Made a little less than $1,000 overall from product sales. (Most materials were reused and thus material costs were close to zero.)
Berkeley Business Academy for Youth, Online — Student
SEPTEMBER 2024 - MAY 2025
Around 80 hours altogether
Bi-weekly sessions spanning the academic year where I was placed in a team of five that created a business proposal and interviewed over 30 people as a team to develop our model into a realistic business.
Created a business centered around industrial dehumidifiers for hydroponic farms that, if implemented, would recycle air humidity into hydroponic reservoirs, saving money for our customers and reducing the wastage of water resources.
Gained skills in cold calling and interviewing (conducted 8 interviews in total to learn about the hydroponic market and industry + gain input on my product)
CAD skills gained from designing the product
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
Publication — Writing from 2019 to present
Writing from 2019 - PRESENT
Self-published a poetry book (The Strings of Life and Love) through Amazon in 2024
Poems published in PoetSpeak Magazine issue #56 in 2024
3 poems – Purity, Siren and Four published in Papercut (a literature magazine run by Mira Costa students) in June 2025
2 poems – Shadows and Friend, featured in an educational pamphlet by Spree Powers in 2024 about abstract art forms.
Have been working on a novel on-and-off for about 2 years
Writing has been my main hobby for years, and I plan to publish more books in the future
Beach Cities FIRST Robotics Team, Redondo Beach — Mechanical Team Member
SEPTEMBER 2023 - JULY 2025
Around 120 hours altogether during school year, and ~30 during summers before and after sophomore year
CAD skills–learned how to use OnShape and a number of machines (like a laser cutter, CNC, etc.)
Led a team in construction of many robot parts and oversaw creation of the robot’s bumpers for the 2024 season
My team won 2nd in the World Championships in 2024 as a part of a coalition of three teams
Wrestling, Mira Costa High School — Varsity Team Member
MARCH 2022 - JUNE 2023
Varsity; went to CIFs in 2023
EDUCATION
Mira Costa, Manhattan Beach — Diploma
2022 - PRESENT
Will graduate from this high school in 2026.
UCLA Extension, Remote — Concurrent Enrollment
JULY 2025 - PRESENT
I have taken Elementary Spanish 3 so far.
MiraCosta College, Remote — Concurrent Enrollment
MAY 2025 - PRESENT
I have taken Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship through this college so far. …I may or may not be enrolled in this particular community college simply because I think it funny to have attended two schools named some variation of “Mira Costa.”
PROJECTS
The Strings of Life and Love — Published 2024
A collection of poems that I published after writing poetry consistently for a few years.
SKILLS
CAD, Canva, Google Sheets, Microsoft Word, etc.
Analysis
Leadership
Teamwork
AWARDS
Scholar Athlete, 2022
Honor Roll 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.
Certificate of Achievement for Outstanding Theatrical Work in Peter and the Starcatcher (for Costume crew work) and Anatomy of Grey (for hair and makeup work) by the California Educational Theatre Organization in their 2023 and 2024 High School Theatre Festivals respectively
Scenic Design 1st Place, Fullerton College Theatre Festival 2025
Stage Crew/Technical Execution Winner, 2025 JRAY awards – won as a member of the crew of Bright Star, a show put on by Mira Costa High School
Thespian Scholar, President’s List, 2024-2025
Mira Costa High School Tech, 2024-2025 Tech Award - Gold Level
Mira Costa High School Drama/Tech 2025 Spring Musical “Bright Star” Running Crew Spotlight Award
LANGUAGES
English, Rudimentary Spanish and Russian, Fluent Sarcasm
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