Age: 17
Sophia Felesky spends nearly half her year — 170 days — training and competing in races as a high-performance skier and still excels in her studies as an honour-roll student. Inspired by Stephen Hawking’s computer-generated speech, she developed an interest in helping people with disabilities through biomedical research and engineering, and spent last summer in a lab at the Hotchkiss Brain Institute studying auditory effects on mice, eventually hoping to help people with autism who struggle with hypersensitivity to noise. Despite her busy schedule, she still found time to nail her Royal Conservatory of Music exam, receiving first-class honours for her piano playing.
“I want to be someone that helps people facing adversity live life to the fullest.”
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