CLAIRE KILDALL

CLAIRE KILDALL

2017: Certified by the National Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) at the 99th percentile.
2018-2020: National Honor Roll; participated in the Noetic Learning Math Contest (NLMC).
2019: Destination Imagination State Champion Team; served as team captain and lead scriptwriter.
2019: Achieved the 99th percentile on the School and College Ability Test (SCAT).
2019: Grand Honors recipient in the Science, Engineering, and Technology (SET) program at the Center for Talented Youth (CTY) at Johns Hopkins University.
2019: Completed a course in Robotics: Drivetrain Design at the University of Washington (UW) Robinson Center.
2019-2020: Top player in the UW Robinson Center Chess Club. 2020: First Place at the School-level Math Olympiads (MOEMS).
2020: Completed a course in Neuroscience at the UW Robinson Center.
2023-2024: Awarded Best in Show and Artistic Achievement Award for sculpture of Phoebus Apollo (2023); Best in Category (2) for Painting and English Prose (2024), by The Philadelphia Classical Society (PCS).
2023- 2024: Achieved Summa Cum Laude and Gold Medal on the National Latin Exam (NLE). 2023: Attended the Advanced Cognitive Psychology summer program at Johns Hopkins University CTY. 2023: Admitted to the Advanced Precalculus program.
2023-2024: Member of the Robotics Team; advocated for gender inclusiveness, tripling female membership on the team.
2024: Admitted to the Advanced Calculus program.

I closed my final year of middle school with a project looking at the intersections of art and math. I was encouraged to discover that our sense of beauty is at least partly based on mathematical principles. It makes me wonder what other qualities that make us human may also be rooted in some higher unifying principles that transcend our humanity. And can we, as a species, evolve our very way of thinking to reach that higher place? In the next phase, I will explore these questions further in the context of psychology, AI, and robotics. I also look forward to connecting with others foundation members who are also asking these questions with different perspectives and abilities.