Ashneet Dhami: “Since kindergarten to seventh grade, I knew I would do something in the medical field. [I decided this] without my parents' total influence. And so, I’d watch documentaries, brain games,...

Jesse Li: “I started teaching during COVID. Due to the school shutdowns, I started learning from other high school students by myself, like learning Java on Zoom. I was inspired by them, and the fact...

Hannah Love: “After giving birth, your world gets flipped upside down. I used to obsess over every minute of my lesson plan. I used to calculate, okay, so they're going to be doing a journal entry for...

Amrita “AJ” Julka: “I’ve been doing soccer for 13 years, and I’ve played defensive midfielder my whole soccer career.  I started when I was around 4 years old, when my mom put me in, and I’ve...

Ayesha Parekh: “I started Belle Bling Jewelry because I am a huge jewelry fanatic. I started it during [2022] Valentine’s Day season in freshmen year. Jewelry can go with any outfit you plan; like...

Kimberly Wiese: One or two years ago, I decided I wanted to try to go to the Olympics. I got into weightlifting a couple years before that. Originally, it was just my coach and me. In 2017, when I was...

Madame Moriya: “[It] doesn't mean a certain formula, but I definitely think it's cool to just care about you, not in a materialistic sense or like a vain sense, but the way you present yourself to the...

Aedyn Falcon: “I started when I just turned eight years old. My grandpa got me into it. I started at this organization called The First Tee and it's just for kids to learn about etiquette and how to...

Meghana Nuthi: “I do Kuchipudi, which is a form of traditional Indian dance, and it's mostly associated with the southern part of India. I've been doing that for 12 years, since I was five. I started...

Trisha Rajganesh: I started getting interested in design by just building fun products on my own. I remember in seventh grade, I learned about what Tinkercad was, so I started building random things on...

Senior Sanjit Rao has played the flute for eight years since he first started in fourth grade at Hidden Hills. He’s a veteran of the Area Band Festival, having participated in fifth and eighth grade. As...

Eighth-grader Anbereen Ajina plays the flute in the Windemere Ranch Middle School band. She has been playing her instrument for four years since she first started in fourth grade. “I like how the...