LEADERSHIP
Inspiring Possibilities
DYLAN
PERLSTEIN ’22 Dylan Perlstein’s two driving passions are basketball and math. He is the captain of Viewpoint’s Boys Varsity Basketball Team and was named the Acorn’s Defensive Player of the Year. He also is taking the post-AP course Advanced Topics in Calculus and is planning to study Sports Analytics at the University of Pennsylvania in the fall. His interest in sports analytics began in the summer after Ninth Grade, when Dylan did a project with the Head of the Sports Analytics Club at UCLA. He taught Dylan the basics of the programming language used for statistics. The summer after Tenth Grade, Dylan did “The Moneyball Training Program” at Penn. He said, “It not only used the same programming language, but taught more advanced metrics and a different way to model statistics for not only basketball, but other sports as well. I found it really interesting and a lot of fun.” Dylan followed that in Eleventh Grade with a Harvard X course in statistics, where he learned about linear regressions and the other tools he needed to write a paper on whether the NBA should move the threepoint line back or not. He has not yet presented his paper. He wrote it “to learn how to do stuff and figure the information out for myself.” Now that is a passion project.
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WILLIAMS ’22 Since she was very young, Clare Williams has had an interest in medicine and community service. A Viewpoint lifer, she always loved math and science and took every opportunity to challenge herself with advanced courses in both, as well as taking on leadership roles in CORE (Viewpoint’s Community Service Honors Society), Girls in STEM, and fundraising to buy sanitary products to donate to PATH (People Assisting the Homeless). Clare also is a fouryear Varsity Volleyball player. In the summer before Tenth Grade, she became involved in the Student Steering Committee of the Johns Hopkins Program for International Education in Gynecology and Obstetrics (JHPIEGO) that helped review a health curriculum to be implemented in a Baltimore County public school. Through this experience, she became connected to the Los Angeles County Health Commission, where she was tapped to help three USC students draft their 2021 Annual Report. Her section was the new one on COVID-19. Clare said, “Through this experience, even though it was extremely challenging, I learned so much. I realized that I really liked public policy, and I knew from working with JHPIEGO that I was interested in global health.” Medical school is still a possibility, but for now she is planning to study Global Health at Duke University in the fall.
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