🌟 Siva Sundar – Resume & Portfolio
STEM Innovator • CAD Designer • TKS Innovator • Community Leader
📍 Pleasanton, California
📧 sivasundar1220@gmail.com
📞 925-750-4112
🎯 Objective
As a curious and committed high school student, I am passionate about Robotics, Music, Math, and Chess. I actively lead, mentor, and collaborate on competitive STEM teams, music ensembles, and community programs. My goal is to create positive impact through learning, teaching, and innovation—while preparing myself for a future in engineering and service leadership.
🥜 Me in a Nutshell
Hi! I'm Siva Sundar, a high school student at Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton, California. I'm a CAD designer, a musician, a mentor, and a problem-solver with a passion for exploring the intersection of STEM, arts, and community service. As a TKS Innovator 2025-2026, I focus on solving real-world engineering problems that make a global impact.
- 🎯 What drives me: Deep learning, creative problem-solving, and helping others grow
- 🤖 What I build: FTC robots and science fair exhibits
- 🎶 What I play: Flute in honor bands and therapeutic music for the community (2022-2025)
- ♟️ How I lead: As a chess club president, STEM mentor, and teaching assistant (2022-2024)
- 🌍 Why I serve: Because using my skills to give back is the most rewarding challenge
- 🚀 Where I’m going: Toward a future in engineering, innovation, and impact-driven leadership
At the heart of everything I do is a simple goal: to make learning exciting, purposeful, and shared.
🏆 Highlights
- 🥇 Gold Medal – Presidential Volunteer Service Award (PVSA) for completing 100+ hours of community service in 2024–2025
- 🧠 2nd Place – 2025 Alameda County Fair - Education & School Projects, with “Fidgets R Us” project
- 👨🏫 STEM Mentor to Walnut Grove Elementary school science team – helped mentees win 1st Place + Best of Class awards.
- 🎼 Selected performer for All-State & All-Northern Honor Bands
- 🤖 Member of FTC Robotics Teams #16481 – Mechanical design and CAD
- ♟️ President of HPMS Chess Club (2022–2025) – led 45+ members
- 🧮 Winner of AoPS Summer MathWalk Contest and multiple Math Olympiad honors
- ✍️ Published writer for HPMS PTSA Newsletter