Summary
Education
Skills
Athletics
Affiliations
Community Service
Timeline
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Nikos Burciaga

Mather,CA

Summary

I am a current Freshman at University of California, Santa Cruz as a perspective Electrical Engineering major. I went to Christian Brothers High school. where I was part of the four-year engineering program.

Education

High School Diploma -

Christian Brothers High School
Sacramento, CA
05-2023

Electrical Engineering

University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA

Skills

  • Calm Under Pressure
  • Teamwork and Collaboration

Athletics

  • Athletics, 2020-2021 Jr. Varsity Best Distance runner, 08/01/20, 07/31/21, Sophomore, 0, 0
  • Scholar Athlete, Junior, 0, 0, Junior, 0, 0
  • Christian Brothers Track and Field, Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior, 13, 12, I ran track and field freshman through senior year. I ran JV in 9 and 10 grade, Varsity in 11 and 12 grade. Practices were Monday through Friday after school everyday. I ran on the long distance team and at meets ran the 400m, 800m, 1 mile, and 2 mile.
  • Cross-country, Sophomore, Junior, Senior, 17, 15, I ran frosh/soph my sophomore year and varsity my junior and senior year. Along with going to the state championship with my team my junior and senior year. Practices are Monday through Friday with meets on Saturday.

Affiliations

-Mock Trail at Christian Brothers High school. Participated as a Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior -1 hours/week, 23 weeks/year

We meet for practice after school on Tuesdays and during December and January two to three days a week. I have played the role of witness my freshman and junior year, the role of attorney my sophomore year, and both witness and attorney my senior year. Mock trial is a simulation of a court case. Every participating school gets the same trail information and from that information we have to build cases for both the defense and prosecution. Every role has to memorize a script, dress up nicely, and go against other schools in front of a real judge and about three attorneys who score each school to determine who wins. Freshman and senior year it was in person at the courthouse downtown and online on zoom sophomore and junior year. Attorneys prepare opening and closing statements, direct and cross witnesses, and provide a script for their witnesses. Witnesses have to memorize a script, learn their character's personal statement, and act like their character in front of the judge.

- High School academic decathlon

Junior

3 hours/week

Meeting were in the mornings before school for about a hour, for three days a week. At the meetings we would go over each subject and take practice tests. Later in the year we would have to prepare to give prepared and impromptu speeches to give for the competition. In February we took the competition tests online in the engineering room before school one day. There was a test for: economics, science, math, social studies, art, music, and language and literature. Then we had to go to Folsom to do the interview, prepared speech, and impromptu speech on a different day. It was a fun experience and I learned a lot from it from the basics of economic to how to take test in a efficient manner.

-NeuroTechSC - UCSC

I am apart of the UCSC NeuroTechSC, the UC Santa Cruz Chapter of NeuroTechX. This is a club that focuses on project building and education covering the topics of Brain-Computer Interaction, Neuroscience, and Artificial Intelligence. I am currently part of the hardware team.

Community Service

Community Service at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Sacramento. I help at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church whenever I can and they need the help. I do this since my grandmother attends this church and she has made sure my sister and I are active in the social aspect of the church. I have attended events at the church for as long as I can remember and some of the things I have participated in is Greek dancing at the church and at competitions, Sunday school, playing volleyball for the church, taking Greek lessons, and volunteering as soon as became old enough to, so from about the seventh grade. I volunteer at the crab festivals, on baking days where we bake goods for the Greek food festival, helping out in the office, and working the food festival every year, along with any other miscellaneous opportunities they have.

Timeline

High School Diploma -

Christian Brothers High School

Electrical Engineering

University of California, Santa Cruz
Nikos Burciaga