Maloney’s top student aspires to help others through technology

MERIDEN — Two many years in the past, as a sophomore at Maloney Significant Faculty, Havi Nguyen was launched to computer science and coding. 

“I observed it actually fascinating,” explained Nguyen, who is now 18 and will graduate this thirty day period rated initially in her course. 

Nguyen said she was specifically drawn to the dilemma-solving aspect of coding.

So future tumble, she will start off finding out computer science at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Nguyen hopes to one particular working day perform for a corporation that works by using technological innovation to help other people, which include those with disabilities or language barriers.   

“There are lots of issues with inequality,” Nguyen said. “I want to function to support make things improved.” 

That career goal is a continuation of operate that began at Maloney.

Throughout her decades in superior university, Nguyen compiled a cumulative 4.8 quality point ordinary. But she didn’t just concentrate on academics and researching. 

“I desired to make the most of my time right here,” she mentioned. So Nguyen grew to become extensively associated in quite a few golf equipment, like her school’s LEO Club and the Black Student Alliance. 

LEO stands for Leadership Practical experience Opportunities. The club is focused on carrying out support jobs at Maloney and in the Meriden group. 

The LEO Club not long ago held drives for the Meriden Humane Modern society and arranged fundraisers for results in like breast most cancers recognition. Nguyen eventually grew to become the group’s president. 

Nguyen grew up in Meriden. Her mother is Kimanh Vu and her father is Do Nguyen. She has a brother who is 21. 

Nguyen attended Thomas Hooker Elementary College and Thomas Edison Center Faculty. She recalled when she was in fifth quality that an educator, who wasn’t her instructor, manufactured a prediction. 

“She usually instructed me that I would be valedictorian,” Nguyen mentioned. But as a fifth grade pupil, she was not so guaranteed.

The same educator attended Maloney’s latest Leading 10 university student evening meal. “She handed me a notice that I gave her from fifth quality, the place I wrote, ‘thank you.’”

In the note Nguyen insisted that she would be valedictorian. She could not think her former educator experienced held onto it for all those people several years.

And that educator wouldn’t be the only particular person to get note of Nguyen’s academic achievements. 

“Havi is a person of the very best pupils I have ever had, easily one particular of the most achieved college students,” said Daniel Lobner, Nguyen’s Sophisticated Placement United States Historical past trainer in her sophomore year. 

Lobner described his former pupil as deeply insightful and a brilliant writer. 

“She was so eloquent and digs deep into background and really displays a powerful expertise of it. She was just an awesome college student all round and I seriously enjoyed acquiring her in class,” he stated. 

And in spite of the simple fact that the COVID-19 pandemic compelled schools into complete-remote learning throughout the year that Nguyen took AP US Record, she excelled, Lobner said. 

“She continue to flourished. She received the greatest achievable score on the AP examination. She obtained a 5, which was actually impressive,” he said. 

But teachers would not be the only thing academics like Lobner would occur to know Nguyen for. She was on the school’s powder puff football team, which Lobner coached. 

Nguyen meanwhile attributes the fact that she flourished partly to assist she obtained along the way from teachers like Lobner and from her friends. 

She acquired not to be scared to question for aid. 

“The instructors are constantly ready to assistance you triumph,” Nguyen said. It was the very same for her classmates. 

“I feel all my classmates are incredibly down to earth persons. They’re also not concerned to talk to me for assistance. And I’m not fearful to question them for support. We’re all in the same class. They experienced the very same struggles as me,” Nguyen reported. 

Before she goes to college and tackles computer system science and coding, Nguyen will handle the approximately 300 associates of Maloney’s graduating class and their households on June 15 — graduation working day. 

As of Thursday, Nguyen was placing the ending touches on that speech. 

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