Bardia Golbad

I volunteer for about 4-6 hours a week by helping visitors (including with basic Spanish) check in to visit patients or directing people with appointments, which may include personally guiding them there. Additionally, I help to discharge patients or make certain deliveries. I count the number of visitors and patients by the hour, which is used to create graphs revealing the trend between when visitors or patients come in, contributing to the hospital's logistics.

I helped students with basic quadratics, trigonometry, probability, and more in a high school math class. I worked with students one-on-one, especially if they needed more support. I prevented students from getting distracted either by their phones or by each other. I discussed how they would prepare for quizzes and tests by creating a small plan for how to study when they go home. I supported substitutes and helped manage the class when our teacher was absent. I encouraged them to take higher-level math in the future and conversed with them about why math is worth learning in socratic seminars.

I participated as a builder in my high school's Robotics Club. I built robot parts by collaborating with peers on the instruction manual and supported fundraisers during school lunch (such as decorating our team robot for Halloween). With support from peers and YouTube, I taught myself how to use OnShape by making a mug. I constantly organized shelves and cleaned the room. I participated in competitions where I quickly repaired the robot in-between competitions, along with setting up and taking down robotic fields during our home competition.

I helped my high school prepare for Freshman Orientation for 2-3 days over the summer. I toured freshmen around campus while notifying and encouraging them to join clubs, sports, and the International Baccalaureate Program. We also created a welcoming environment by creating posters and name tags to make everyone feel included.

A virtual based internship where every week, PhDs from Stanford would give lessons on neuroscience topics. Additionally, we read their publications and conducted research on our own, such as a self-sleep study to determine our cognitive abilities after a "good" and "bad" night of sleep by taking a survey, to which we conducted basic statistics to discover a trend. Additionally, we analyzed and discussed MRI images, and had an open-ended final project, where I focused on the mysteries of consciousness by analyzing past studies.

I was a projectionist for my high school's theater plays. For 2 plays, I discovered usable images from Google and Shutterstock for scenes to create my own projections. In one play, I learned how to use Q-Lab and enhance images. Over the weekends, we dedicated about 13-15 hours to building sets and preparing for the plays. I gained woodworking skills in building sets like newspaper carts, learned how to effectively utilize drills for building stage extensions, painted sets such as a Train Car, and gained basic construction safety knowledge. Plus, I helped in opening the theater floor for the band pit, learned how to utilize the lighting console, attached and detached lights, learned how the soundboard works, and how to connect actor mikes to it. Additionally, there was a weekly 2-hour "Tech Guild" meeting where we organized the attic by categorizing cables, memorized theater vocabulary (i.e., Mezzanine), wired and connected lights to the lighting console.

Additionally, I worked from August 2023 - November 2023. I volunteered at my high school's "Snack Shack" during home football games. Prepared about 40-50 meals during the JV and Varsity games, refined and optimized communication skills through conversing with cashiers on orders or with volunteers who make orders. Assisted and learned every food station (For example, I learned how to make a loaded baked potato, root beer floats, etc.). I kept the efficiency and didn't let anything slow service down.