That's my name in Braille. Hover a cell to read it.
I write code for people who can't see the screen, teach dance to kids who are still learning to point their toes, and once turned a masquerade ball for 500 guests into $1,200 for children with special needs. Most people meet one of these sides of me. This page is all three.
These are the ones I'd pick, with the receipts. Hover or tap a word to see how it moves.
I set high targets and keep going until they land, from national scholarships to a full year of original research.
Dance, art and social projects are how I say things, and how I find the next idea worth chasing.
When a plan breaks I already have the next one. I've stepped back from school to dance and turned studies into chances to lead.
I like making things that last longer than the evening, like a charity ball that raised $1,200 for children.
Technology, research, choreography and community service. I don't think they belong in separate boxes.
School was the morning shift. Here is what filled the evenings and weekends, in order.
At a hackathon my team built smart glasses for visually impaired people. The idea is simple: a camera sees the street, and a voice tells you what matters. Move the lens over the blurry street below to get a feel for it.
A simple illustration of the idea, not the real device or its software.
Assistive glasses for visually impaired people, built at an international competition.
Top 25 teamsA paper on how cities work, and fail, for people who can't see them.
GPPW research nominationA chatbot behind a social project that connects young people with art.
Top 15, AWSD ForumAn application to support people living with eating disorders.
3rd place, city levelGrade 1 Braille, letters a–z. Each cell is six dots, read by touch.
In ninth grade I opened my own small dance studio. Passion and stubbornness were basically my only resources. I choreographed, trained the younger students, and dealt with the headache of renting a room.
The studio hit a pause. I didn't stop. In eleventh grade I volunteered to teach dance to kids at a children's club, just for the love of it. That taught me the thing I'm proudest of: when things go the opposite way, I show up with a plan.
I love dance for the challenges it brings, more than for the excitement.
It keeps teaching me agility, creativity and how to work with people. A choreographer and an engineer have the same job, really. You break a big thing into counts and rehearse until it works.
My favorite kind of project is one where a room full of people leaves happy and someone who wasn't in the room is better off.
I planned it from zero: venue, program, guests, money. About a hundred hours of work for one evening, and all of it went to children with special needs.
Total: about 260 hours, roughly six and a half full work weeks, given away.
I want to study Computer Science and spend my career where technology, public health and social impact overlap.
I hope you're working on projects that widen access to innovation: assistive technology, community health, or the arts. And I hope you're mentoring younger students into STEM and art, the way someone once let you try both.
By now you should be leading your own initiative, with a strong team building things that push the edges of inclusion further out. Keep the culture collaborative, give people room to lead, and make it a place where new ideas are welcome at every level.
Because it lets me design answers to real problems, starting with assistive technology for people with disabilities.
Because it shows how societies grow, what breaks them, and what they leave us to learn. I like knowing the backstory before I build.
The result, and the road to it. Rehearsals, prototypes, late planning nights. Every finished thing reminds me that hard work actually changes something.
I'm always up for a hackathon team, a choreography, or an event that needs someone who can do the spreadsheet and the dance number.
madina_zhasaganbergen@mail.ru