Hugo Birnbaum

After four (4) years of learning and debating with teammates on current geo-political issues and competing against schools across the region, this year I have been elected as a leader of my school's debate team where I will help coach newcomers to debate.

After seven (7) years of learning acoustic and electric guitar, I took on the role of helping my school's guitar club by teaching guitar basics to newcomers to the instrument.

I completed a virtual lab program exploring the railroad industry and the future of motive power, organized by the California State Railroad Museum and the Lemelson-MIT Program. During the course, I researched high-speed rail engineering with my group, and presented our discoveries to educators and professionals from the transportation industry. Results were exposed at the museum.

During 8th grade, I assisted my Middle School's afterschool program by supporting the program's director with organizing activities and communicating with the students.

In 4th grade, I campaigned-for and was elected Ambassador for my class. As such, I represented my classmates before the school's administration where I was advocating for their needs. I also helped promote my school's French-English Dual Language program. This also gave me the opportunity to run for school President in 5th grade which was abruptly interrupted by Covid-shutdown just days following my campaign speech presentation to the entire school.