Hello! I’m Aahan Patel, an 18-year-old student at Fountainhead School. I am a balanced individual with many different interests. I have endless admiration for the sciences and enjoy learning more about them. I enjoy many different sports and have been a national track athlete. I would like to improve my time-management, communication and personal skills. […]
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Illumination inc. | Creativity and Service [Project]
Teaching is something I have always enjoyed doing. After finishing IB MYP, I looked back at my journey and realized that if there were someone who could guide me and help me in certain aspects of the programme, it would have been so much easier. It is this realization that led to the creation of […]
The Corridors (TNC) | Service and Creativity
The Corridors (also known as The Newspaper Club ) is my school’s digital newsletter and I was given the opportunity to be the webdesigner who made the website and maintained it for a few editions. My initial task was to code the website from scratch based on the preferences of the editors. Learning objective 1: […]
Learning Waveboarding | Activity
A waveboard is a two-wheeled, human powered vehicle similar to a skateboard. I got one when I was 11 and used it for a few months and since then it had been sitting in storage collecting dust. During the pandemic, out of boredom I started to ride it again and felt that riding it normally […]
Cycling | Activity
Staying home for almost 4-5 months as a result of a global pandemic was a very new experience for me. During this time, I had gained weight and lost my ability to do any sort of extensive physical activity. After the end of the lockdown, I had a very small and limited range of options […]
Learning Spanish | Creativity
Language is a crucial part of any culture and personally I am intrigued by the Spanish language and how it sounds. Majority of North American nations speak Spanish and in an attempt to better explore their culture and language I decided to learn the fundamentals of Spanish. My aim is to learn the basic words […]
Aarati community | Creativity & Service
In an attempt to make society a better place and to help people do this, me and a colleague of mine decided to create a website. Over time we acknowledged that often certain factors like the form, cause and execution of a charitable act can act as frictions to individuals seeking to do good for […]
Cleaning drive | Service & Activity
I often noticed that it was the sub-urban public places which always seemed to be polluted with plastic wrappers and all sorts of pollutants. Thus, In an attempt to make the city cleaner, me and my friends decided to drive by public places which we know are polluted and then collect the litter by hand. […]
Crossfit training | Activity
Being an athlete, fitness is of utmost importance to me and during school I regularly indulged in all sorts of physical activities to make sure I stay in shape. However during the pandemic, due to the lack of motivation, guidance and the limited variety of possible activities, I experienced discontinuity in my fitness. Therefore, to […]
All about Sickle Cell Anemia
Sickle Cell Anemia or Sickle cell Disease is a form of anemia. It is an inherited disease and both parents need to pass on the defected gene for the offspring to have SDC. Anemia is a condition in which there aren’t enough healthy red blood cells to carry adequate oxygen throughout your body and […]