Curriculum Vitae Yegor Menovchshikov Mordialloc Secondary College DOB: 04/04/2006 Year of arrival: 2012 from Kazakhstan - - I am a black belt in Taekwondo I am playing piano and flute as a solo player and as a part of my school band I am part of the Taekwondo demonstration and leadership team in Bentleigh Taekwondo Club. My role is to assist the trainer to run sessions and mentor junior members I am also running a club over Zoom calls teaching primary school kids how to solve a Rubik’s cube My proudest achievement at school has to be when I achieved the 94.59th percentile in a year 9 difficulty SEAMO (Southeast Asian Mathematical Olympiad) in 2019 (I was in year 7 at the time) against thousands of other students. I haven’t competed in any mathematics competitions before, however, I have “unintentionally” been practicing for it. Between grade 4 and year 8, I have been completing the Kumon program. At the time it was just a part of my daily routine, so I have never truly appreciated nor understood how far ahead it has put me in mathematics. Last year I applied to Melbourne High School, with equal optimism as I had when I applied to the SEAL program that I'm a part of right now. I had significantly underestimated the level of competition and preparation that I would have to have, and I had realised too late that I should’ve begun revising significantly earlier rather than when I actually did. Moreover, I had overestimated my capabilities into believing that the questions would be proportionally equally difficult (partly true). After reflecting on the questions in the test I realized that there is a general trend among all school assignments based on speed rather than difficulty, and so, I would have to learn to solve problems faster, rather than learning to solve more difficult ones. Reflecting back on this test for JMSS, I’ve spotted a similar trend and presume that the practice has paid back now that I’m at the interview. I’ve always found young and successful people to be very inspiring. No matter what their field of work, I recognise the sheer amount of effort that they had to put in at one time in order to achieve the success that they're at now. Although partially irrational, I’ve had the idea fixated in my mind that since results need action, with a constant reminder of what is technically possible, I’ve found to have increased motivation in areas of interest. Effectively anyone better than me in some area of interest is a form of motivation/inspiration for me. Current idols that I have now are Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos within their younger years, due to both of them becoming incredibly successful while starting off with practically nothing. I believe my superpower to be the ability to hyperfocus on most activities, especially the ones that I enjoy. Oftentimes, in my areas of interest (subject-wise) I'm easily able to get carried away into producing high quality work. For example: in a science assignment, I’d unintentionally write multiple times more than required, going off into much more detail and information, hence resulting in higher marks. Paired with overthinking and perfectionism I’d go over my work many times more in order to make it as best as possible. As a downside I often go to the limits of unintentionally providing unnecessary information that doesn’t contribute to the guidelines of the work. Another example with hobbies rather than schoolwork: I would be fully engulfed in the hobby, it being the only one I have for a while, until I reach a stage of perfectionism after achieving desired results. Then I would further go into unnecessary regions of the hobby that provide no real value to it and only out of curiosity, after which switching to another hobby and repeating. If timed properly and at interesting subjects then it’s very rare that I would produce subpar work. A brand new hobby that I have begun for myself during last year's lockdown was streaming my Minecraft gameplay on an online platform called Twitch. It was a brand new experience that I had never considered partaking in, requiring me to talk, interact and engage with strangers; As an introvert, this took me out of my comfort zone as I had never wanted to initiate conversations and especially disliked small talk. Whilst I still don’t particularly enjoy it, I feel much more calm when meeting new people or even in generally social areas requiring me to speak one on one with people. As for my involvement in science beyond the general school curriculum, I’m attending a computer science class outside of school; there I’ve learnt to program in Python, Microbit and Arduino. I am also attending an additional online course where I’ve learnt HTML, CSS, Javascript and the React and Redux libraries. With my current level of knowledge I am able to make an interactive website from scratch as well as understand the structure and modify an existing site. In my spare time I often program in a game engine called Unity. I make my own models for the game in a 3D software called Blender, transfer the files into Unity and proceed with programming the game. I have also recently gotten access to the Open AI / GPT-3 API, the world's most advanced Artificial Intelligence engine to date, and am experimenting on the possibilities of it trading cryptocurrencies for maximum profit. Please also see following certificates / awards attached: - Southeast Asian Mathematical Olympiad 2019 - Certificate of Achievement GOLD (top 8%) - ICAS ASSESSMENT 2020 - Digital Technologies - Distinction (top 6%) - ICAS ASSESSMENT 2020 - Science - Distinction (top 9%) - KUMON medals (2016 to 2019) - continuous being 5+ years ahead - PSYCHOLOGY ASSESSMENT SUMMARY - cognitive profile is indicative of Intellectual Giftedness (top 2%)
