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Opening/closing attorney and peer mentor · Best Attorney, 2026 Summer · Outstanding Attorney, 2025 Winter (held in 2026) · Closing attorney, Empire Chicago (2024)
From testing ammonia-responsive hydrogel indicators to creating health materials displayed at twenty schools, I explore how science and information can become more accessible.
I keep returning to one question: who gets to use the solution?
My work began in the lab, but it rarely stays there. A food-spoilage sensor led me to affordability and interpretation. Public-health work pushed me toward information access.
Student government taught me that durable change often depends on the structure around a problem—not only the person facing it. Across each field, access is the design brief.
Each project starts with a person excluded by cost, information, or process—and asks what would have to change for the system to include them.

An agarose-anthocyanin hydrogel prototype changes color in response to ammonia, used as a model volatile in food-spoilage experiments.

I founded KMLA HOSA and served as president through August 2026. The chapter had 26 active members as of September 2026; I now serve as an advisor.

As Student Legislative Council president, I led a twenty-member council, livestreamed meetings, published minutes, and reviewed eight proposals.

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A prototype sensing project exploring color responses to ammonia as a model volatile, with an interest in accessible food-spoilage indicators.

Living in a dorm without reliable refrigeration made spoilage hard to judge. I began by asking why food safety was still being decided by uncertain senses such as smell.
I developed the hypothesis and experimental workflow, compared hydrogel matrices and preparation methods, and prepared and cast the hydrogels. I conducted ammonia and sealed-package exposure tests at room and refrigerated temperatures, photographed color responses, and organized results.
My faculty mentor, Woorin Lee at the University of Suwon, generated the UV–Vis measurements and graphs, which I interpreted. These experiments used ammonia as a model volatile; they do not establish that the prototype can determine whether food is safe to eat.
The project received a KSEF Gold Award in 2026 and was presented at Regeneron ISEF 2026. My sole-authored manuscript is under revision at the Journal of High School Sciences following reviewer feedback; it has not been accepted or published.



The public project record verifies the finalist entry and summarizes the research. The poster shows the experimental design, results, and standardized scale.
I founded KMLA HOSA because I saw a different access problem: reliable health information and sustained service were not reaching people consistently.

I founded KMLA HOSA and served as president through August 2026. The chapter had 26 active members as of September 2026. I coordinated volunteers, supplies, transportation, and visits to four elder- and disability-care facilities, and now serve as an advisor.
Information only becomes public health when it reaches the people who need it.
We produced monthly health materials in separate elementary- and middle-school versions and distributed them to thirteen elementary and seven middle schools across Gangwon Province.
In 2025, I volunteered for three days (24 hours) at Kampong Thom Provincial Referral Hospital in Cambodia. Under physicians’ supervision and with local interpreters, I helped patients navigate the OB-GYN clinic, gathered supplies, and organized work areas.
I wrote an operations guide for future chapter leaders, documenting practices to support handover and continued service.
I organized exchanges among four HOSA chapters to share practices and support newer leaders. An online archive of our health-education materials was published in August 2026.
Planning and training
Age-specific health materials
Materials in use at Jangpyeong Elementary
Cambodia OB-GYN medical mission
The public archive organizes KMLA HOSA posters and card news by audience and publication date, with the chapter mission and distribution record.
Outside the lab, the same instinct appears: find the hidden burden, make the process visible, and redesign the structure around it.
I led a twenty-member council representing approximately 450 students. We reviewed eight proposals, livestreamed meetings, and published verbatim minutes.
I synthesized student feedback and negotiated a 20-absence morning-exercise allowance adopted in Spring 2026. Original attendance requirements returned in Fall 2026, with absence penalties reduced from three points to two.



As a member, deputy head, and then head of the Department of School Environment (2024–2025), I coordinated bin replacement in approximately 90 dormitory rooms, from demand assessment and budgeting to assembly. I taught waste sorting to 150 incoming students and created a photo-based recycling campaign.
Through KMLA public relations (2024–2026), I contributed to campus tours, presentations, and promotional materials.
Research is one place where I practice judgment under pressure. Music, fencing, and advocacy train the same attention in different languages.

Opening/closing attorney and peer mentor · Best Attorney, 2026 Summer · Outstanding Attorney, 2025 Winter (held in 2026) · Closing attorney, Empire Chicago (2024)

Studied from age six · First violin section, KMLA Orchestra (Mar 2024–Feb 2026) · Soloist in a competition winners’ recital at Carnegie Hall (2025)

Gangwon women’s team sabre 1st, 2024–2026 · Gangwon State Fencing Association President’s Cup & Club Championship: girls’ high school individual 2nd (2025), 3rd (2024)
Selected academic, artistic, and athletic recognition.
Low-cost science, public-health access, civic systems, and communication.