Advait Maybhate

Advanced Adventurer

SSI Scuba Schools International

Open Water Diver

SSI Scuba Schools International

CodeSignal Proctored General Coding Assessment - 600/600

CodeSignal

MITx - 6.00.1x: Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python (edX Verified Certificate)

edX

Maker Expo

Sep 2016 · 1 mo

Wilfrid Laurier University

Feb 2017 - Mar 2017 · 2 mos

Contrary

Oct 2020 - Present · 4 yrs 11 mos

JAMHacks

Sep 2017 - Present · 8 yrs

Hack the North

Feb 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 7 mos

Schulich Leader Scholarships

StarterHacks

May 2018 - Jan 2019 · 9 mos

Gold Medal

Issued by Waterloo-Wellington Science and Engineering Fair · Apr 2017

Associated with Sir John A. MacDonald Secondary School Won a gold medal and several scholarships for my project regarding a novel algorithm for DNA sequence motif discovery.

Silver Medal and Statistics Society of Canada Award

Issued by Canada-Wide Science Fair · May 2017

Associated with Sir John A. MacDonald Secondary School Won a silver medal and Statistics Society of Canada award for my project regarding motif discovery in genetic sequences!

Best Hardware Hack

Issued by THacks 2 · Oct 2017

Associated with Sir John A. MacDonald Secondary School Created Polyspective, an automated camera perspective switcher that switches perspectives based on various metrics such as number of faces and facial expressions.

School Champion for the Galois contest

Issued by The Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC) · Apr 2016

Associated with Sir John A. MacDonald Secondary School Highest scoring student in Sir John A. Macdonald Secondary School for the Galois mathematics contest.

School Champion for the Cayley contest

Issued by The Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC) · Feb 2016

Associated with Sir John A. MacDonald Secondary School Highest scoring student in Sir John A. Macdonald Secondary School for the Cayley mathematics contest.

Second place at T.Hacks (Hackathon)

Issued by Toronto Hacker Club · Oct 2016

Associated with Sir John A. MacDonald Secondary School Won the second place prize (a biosensor hardware kit and cash prize) at the region wide hackathon. Made a program that aggregates Twitter data (tweets), analyzes its sentimentality and presents it in a graphical manner (on a map). This allows users to find correlations between how users on social media are emotionally responding and major events e.g. earthquakes, Olympics, hurricanes, etc.

CIBC National Math Scholarship (Replaced, $25,000)

Issued by University of Waterloo · Apr 2018

Offered a $25,000 CIBC National Math scholarship at the University of Waterloo (one per year across all applicants). Replaced by Schulich Leader Scholarship.

Schulich Leader Scholarship ($80,000)

Issued by Schulich Leader Scholarships · Jul 2018

Awarded a $80,000 scholarship at the University of Waterloo out of 1,500+ nominees across Canada (one nominee per high school).

School Champion for the Pascal contest

Issued by The Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC) · Feb 2015

Associated with Sir John A. MacDonald Secondary School Highest scoring student in Sir John A. Macdonald Secondary School for the Pascal mathematics contest.

Gold Medal, Chem 13 award and SHAD Valley Scholarship

Issued by Waterloo-Wellington Science and Engineering Fair (WWSEF) · Apr 2016

Associated with Sir John A. MacDonald Secondary School I tested the lactose contents of different types of milk using acetic acid, calcium carbonate and ethanol.

Competed in the ECOO programming contest provincials

Issued by Educational Computing Organization of Ontario · May 2016

Associated with Sir John A. MacDonald Secondary School Passed the boardwide and regional levels of the team programming competition. Competed in the finals at York University in Toronto, Ontario.

Second Place at SpartaHacks

Issued by Centennial Collegiate Vocational Institute · Dec 2016

Associated with Sir John A. MacDonald Secondary School I won the second place prize for my project at the SpartaHacks hackathon. I created a program that allowed users to see correlations between the sentimentality values (happy/sad) of a specific twitter user and see if they correlate to temperature values or stock values.

Best Cloudflare App

Issued by Cloudflare at MHacks X · Sep 2017

Associated with Sir John A. MacDonald Secondary School Created Swilter, an embeddable commenting system, via the Cloudflare Apps interface. Allows for comments to be filtered to remove profanity.

Perfect score in the Canadian Computing Competition (CCC)

Issued by The Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC) · Feb 2016

Associated with Sir John A. MacDonald Secondary School Perfect score of 75/75 in the CCC computer science contest.

Meridian Sean Jackson Scholarship ($10,000)

Issued by Meridian Credit Union · Jun 2018

Won the Meridian Sean Jackson Scholarship ($10,000), which is awarded to one high school graduate who has demonstrated both academic excellence and an outstanding commitment to communities.

Best Use of CockroachDB

Issued by Cockroach Labs at Hack the North · Sep 2017

Associated with Sir John A. MacDonald Secondary School Created SumNotes, a web application that allows users to summarize lectures (speech-to-text and summarizes the lecture). Won $1000 prize for the best use of CockroachDB for the backend (SQL database).

Gold Honours Award

Issued by Sir John A. Macdonald Secondary School · Oct 2016

Associated with Sir John A. MacDonald Secondary School Won a gold plaque for the highest overall average (98%) in grade 10.

Gold Medal, Best in Division Award, Sir Isaac Newton Award and SHAD Valley Scholarship

Issued by Waterloo-Wellington Science and Engineering Fair (WWSEF) · Apr 2015

Associated with Sir John A. MacDonald Secondary School In this science fair project, I found the amount of electrolytes in different types of juices by running an electrical current through them.

First Place

Issued by WearHacks · Mar 2017

Associated with Sir John A. MacDonald Secondary School Won first place at the WearHacks hackathon for creating an automated teleprompter using the Pebble smartwatch.

Second place in the Personal Financial Literacy (PFL) category at DECA regionals

Issued by DECA Ontario · Nov 2016

Associated with Sir John A. MacDonald Secondary School I won a medal for placing second in the personal financial literacy (PFL) category at the DECA regionals hosted at Sir John A. Macdonald Secondary School. I also got top 10 in my category's multiple choice and oral mock case award groups. DECA is an international business competition that involves students doing mock cases of real life business situations in order to gain better business knowledge and communication skills.