Alex Zhang's student profile

Alex Zhang

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Carlmont High School Class of 2010

MENLO PARK, China

www.zinch.com/alex-zhang

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Extracurricular

Debate team

I was going to school in Canada during 9th grade. I started out poorly, often scoring the lowest points on my team because I wasn't too familiar with the English Language back then. But by the last tournament, I was placed top 15 among over 100 first year

Varsity Badminton Team

I had played badminton all my life. I was on school team playing singles from 7th to 9th grade. I stopped after 10th because I moved and I lived an hour away from school; I could not commit the time that being on the team required.

Chinese Culture Club

I did not take on a leadership role in this club like I usually do with other activities. Instead, I just enjoyed speaking Chinese outside of home and sharing my cultures with other students. I did help to organize club activities such as the Chinese New

English-Chinese translator

I am very lucky to know both Chinese and English. I frequently go on the English section of a popular question-answer website in China to translate for people.

Starting a summer exchange program

I am organizing a team of students who are going on a trip to exchange in China over the upcoming summer. We already have sponsors there who are interested in meeting students with high caliber. All costs, including air fare and living expenses, will be c

High school newspaper

I have always been interested in Journalism and Communications. I started my first newspaper in elementary school after receiving journalism training at Beijing Youth TV Station. I was thrilled to both report and make decisions. This interest stayed wit

Yearbook class

I was responsible for coming up story ideas, taking pictures, organizing students in my section,writing stories, and laying out some pages.

Experience

Creator of company
Ad Agency
2009 to 2010
This is one of the two companies that I contemplated to start on my own over the summer. This one is an ad agency in which I charge companies to have their ads on student vehicles by a school

Co-creator of company
T-shirt Business
2009 to 2010
This is a shirt manufacturer where my partner and I make designs for retailers and take orders from both public and private institutions to make customized shirts. Along with the ad agency, this is a business that I planned out over the Summer. We got our

Education

High School

Carlmont High School

Honors & Awards

1161 1522 James Madison Freedom of Information Award

Specialties & Skills

I won this award for trying to keep the newspaper I headed running after the school suspended it for a racy article. The award is given by the Society of Professional Journalists, one of the oldest organizations representing journalists in the United Stat