What are some of your most notable awards, honors, or achievements in academic or extracurricular areas?  If any is especially important to you, tell us why. (250 word limit)

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Every night we repeated the same experiment over and over. Some of us really wanted to give up, but I wouldn`t allow it. I was so determined to get this experiment done...

While preparing for the Korea Young Physicists Tournament (KYPT), for the first time I was able to carry out experiments without a manual...