CV
| Alexa Curtis ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | ||
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| EDUCATION | TESTING | |
| ST. JOHN’S SCHOOL Houston, TX (enrolled 2022-2026) GPA: 97.1/100 Weighted | ACT (09/14/2024) Composite: 35 English: 36, Math: 35, Reading: 36, Science: 34 AP Exam Scores: AP Biology 5, AP Latin Language 5, AP US History 5, AP Calculus BC 5, AP English Language and Composition 5, AP Computer Science A 4 |
| EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AND LEADERSHIP | |
| Founder - shewireswords.github.io, Nonprofit Organization Empowering Girls in Tech Founded She Wires Words, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization advocating for female students in technology. Offers virtual tutoring, online webinars, beginner engineering project guides, computer science resources, and a global newsletter to share the voices of girls in technology. Granting 4,000+ members access to online resources Oversaw 300+ volunteer hours as leader and recruiter of 11-person executive team. | 2025-Present |
| Researcher and Developer - Python-based Air Pollution Mapping Tool Built an interactive, live-updating data visualization tool of five air pollutants that forecasted air quality data anywhere worldwide. Used research to advocate against environmental injustice in my community. Educated community on environmental injustice. Presented findings to a committee of faculty evaluators and local environmental forums. Extended the research from the school year into the summer of 2025 to predict future air pollution trends for any global location. | 2024-2025 |
| Freelance Graphic Designer Design 2D and 3D digital graphics with Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Canva, and Blender. 20+ graphic designs featured on a global image-holder company with 6B+ downloads. Created advertisement flyers and posters as design leader for 4+ high school student clubs. | 2024-Present |
| Advanced Coursework - STEM, Data Science, Linguistics MIT Online Student: Introduction to Linguistics, Language Processing, Data Analysis for Social Science. Stanford Online Student: Databases: Semistructured Data, Databases: Relational Databases and SQL. Johns Hopkins In-Person Summer Student: Data Science and AI. UCLA In-Person Summer Student: Nanotechnology and Nanoscale Microscopy. Girls Who Code: Certificate in Web Development, Certificate in Data Science, Certificate in Cybersecurity. | 2024-2025 |
| Co-Leader - Environmental Coalition of Students Club (100+ members) Lead tech-integrated sustainability initiatives as part of the primary environmental organization at my school and organize weekly campus recycling efforts. Created digital dashboard with data tracking to optimize volunteer hours and recycling efforts. Tracked 4,800 lbs of recycling. Oversee 20+ volunteers per week, organizing 500+ service hours per year for students. Organized schoolwide events to promote environmental awareness and sustainability initiatives, invited Rice University faculty to speak. Led yearly electronics recycling drive at school, recycled 20+ large electronics per year, including computers and printers. | 2022-2026 |
| Design Editor - Imagination: Schoolwide Literature and Art Magazine Designed full magazine issues using Adobe InDesign. Collaborated with editorial team during production cycles, from blank issue to print | 2024-2026 |
| VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE | |
| Environmental Coalition of Students Lead weekly campus recycling collection on Friday afternoons as a club leader, sort non-recyclables, and transport bins to disposal sites. | 2022-2026 |
| Girls 4 STEM Volunteer at a local elementary school on Wednesday afternoons. Author lesson plans teaching 250+ 3rd-graders to think like scientists: designing experiments, testing variables, applying the scientific method. Previously under the name “Food for Thought.” | 2024-2026 |
| WORK/INTERNSHIPS | |
| Paid Web Designer Design and sell websites for individuals, school clubs, organizations, and small businesses. 10+ websites created | 2025-Present |
| PROGRAMS/RESEARCH | |
| Independent Research - Computational Linguistics Used advanced Python techniques to explore ancient Latin texts with novel clustering and alignment methods. Analyzed 1M+ words in texts across 6 centuries from 14+ authors, quantifying a religious shift from polytheism to Christianity through words. Submitted a 20-page academic paper to the Journal of Computational Linguistics. | 2025 |
| Girls Who Code Pathways Summer Program Participated in a six-week self-paced summer program featuring courses on web development, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. Completed a certificate in the web development course using JS, HTML, and CSS, and a cybersecurity course using Python. As a returning program student, I assisted 20+ students with coding questions and topics. | 2025 |
| Girls Who Code Self-Paced Summer Program Participated in a six-week self-paced summer program for female high school students interested in programming. Completed a certificate in Data Science and Web Development courses using Python, HTML, CSS, and JS. | 2024 |
| Johns Hopkins University AI and Data Science Classes (Baltimore, MD) Participated in a two-week intensive data science and AI exploration course for high school students. Met each weekday to take a morning and afternoon class from the professor. | 2024 |
| AWARDS AND HONORS | |
| International Athena Award Created 3 interactive coding projects spanning 30 hours of work, projects selected for the award among 2000+ female programmers. Invited to largest female and non-binary international Hackathon in NYC | 2025 |
| National Latin Exam - Gold Highest Award - National Latin Exam: Intermediate (2023) Highest Award - National Latin Exam: Reading Comprehension Exam (2024) Highest Award - National Latin Exam: Advanced Poetry (2025) 100,000+ participants | 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| National Latin Vocabulary Exam - Gold Highest Award - National Latin Vocabulary Exam, 7500+ participants | 2024, 2025 |
| National Code/Art Coding Competition - 3rd Place in Game Design Developed a baking simulation game with self-illustrated graphics in Java-based language Won 3rd place out of all national competitors: 3/4000 | 2025 |
| National Asian American Scholar Forum Video Competition Submitted a 45-second video on the aeronautical engineer Wong Tsoo and won 2nd prize in the AI Category 2/600 participants | 2025 |
| National Presidential Volunteer Service Award Gold Award - Youth Division - 101 hours (2024), Bronze Award - Adult Division - 100 hours (2025) | 2024, 2025 |