Tabb High School - Class of 2024

Janie Qing

1. GPA: 4.9591
2. High School Extracurricular activities: Varsity Girls Soccer, SCA, Mu Alpha Theta, Key Club, Science Fair, Biomedical Engineering Shadowing and Research
3. Community Involvement: Roots for STEM, Peninsula Chinese American Association, Hospital Volunteer
4. College attending: Duke University
5. Studying/Major: Biomedical Engineering
6. Tell us about a person or experience that has had a significant impact in your life? Alyssa Vargas and I have been inseparable best friends since 6th grade science class. I genuinely do not think I would have survived high school without her; she truly motivates me in every way.
7. If you could give one piece of advice to rising high school students, what would it be? Honestly, just enjoy your time. There's only four years, so make the most of it and do what you want to do - whether it is going to every football game possible, making your mark with community service, or trying to solve cancer.
8. What's one class you wish had been offered or you had been able to take in high school? Advanced PE is the class I wish I could have taken - solely to check out the new weight room at Tabb.
9. What school tradition or experience will you miss the most? Orange Out days (specifically the Fridays before homecoming). Especially since I've been a student council member pretty much all high school, those days are the most chaotic, yet fun days of the year. From start to end, I believe that Orange Out days are the epitome of the high school experience.
10. What is your most memorable experience or highlight from your high school years? Scoring a header in the final moments of a soccer game is my favorite experience. The pure adrenaline is unbelievable and after 80 minutes of sprinting around the field, it is such a relief to be able to celebrate a last-minute win with my teammates.

Alyssa Vargas

1. GPA: 4.9591
2. High School Extracurricular activities: Research Club, International Language Club, Science Fair, Computational Linguistics Research, Natural Language Processing Research
3. Community Involvement: Girls Who Code/Roots for STEM
4. College attending: Yale University
5. Studying/Major: Statistics & Data Science and Economics
6. Tell us about a person or experience that has had a significant impact in your life? Janie Qing and I have been glued together since 6th grade. She has always inspired me to push myself, try new things, and strive for our goals. I could not have asked for a better (or funnier) friend.
7. What was the most useful advice you have received from someone about high school? "Try everything," iconic words from Zootopia's song, is perfect advice for high school. Try out new subjects, new clubs, new sports, and meet new people. It's really the best way to find out what you love. You never know what lies behind a new experience.
8. What was your favorite class you've taken in high school and why? My favorite class was my junior year period 8 math class. With only 10 people in the class, every person in my class felt like family. Something about calculus encouraged endless conversation and almost painful laughter.
9. What school tradition or experience will you miss the most? I will miss getting ready, taking pictures, and eating dinner with friends before homecoming and prom.
10. What is your most memorable experience or highlight from your high school years? Going to the beach every day after school during the last week of school with my friends was so much fun.