Haydn Rodrigues

Grant Vermillion ( email: gvermillion@nevadarush.com, phone: 702-271-7701, relationship: Coach):

Palo Verde High School (zoned high school), 2023–present

• Men’s cross country, varsity, 2023; Fastest freshmen 2-mile time in school history. Most Valuable Newcomer award.

• Men’s soccer, varsity, 2024–present. Class 5A League All-Star, 2025. All-State Academic Team, 2024-2025.

Education

• West Career & Technical Academy (WCTA), Las Vegas, Nevada May 2027
• 4.0 unweighted and 4.8 weighted GPA. Current class rank: 1/375 (Spring Semester, Grade 10). 1500 SAT super score.
• 2024 HOSA State Conference: 1st place, Community Awareness; advanced to HOSA International Conference.

WCTA & Other Extracurricular Activities

○ WCTA: Officer Positions; ~100 hours.

• Tutoring Just for You: president, 2024–present; vice president, 2023–2024.
• Varsity Quiz Club: president, 2024–present; vice president, 2023–2024; school district all-stars, 2023–2024; captained 2024-2025 team to district playoffs for the first time in school history.
• Other Clubs: National Honor Society: member, 2025–present. Future Health Professionals (formerly HOSA): member, 2023–present.
• National Archives cursive translator, 2025–present

○ Music: Violin, 2015–present: training, competition, and theory/technique/repertoire study.

○ National/International math competitions: RSM, MathCON (98th percentile)

○ U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) Summer Program, 2023: Biology and aeronautical engineering lab experience.

Community Service & Honors

○ Young Men’s Service League (YMSL), 2023–present; ~75 service hours.

○ President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation: Volunteer Service Gold Award, 2023–2025 (250+ hours).

○ Fit Futures Foundation 501(c)(3) (pending), Founder; diabetes and obesity awareness company; >1 million people visited website; Spotify and Apple podcasts; collaborated with the Nevada Institute for Children's Research and Policy.

○ Congressional App Challenge Ambassador, U.S. House of Representatives, 2024.

Medical Volunteering

○ Sunrise Children’s Hospital, Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, Las Vegas, Nevada

• Medical Explorers Program, volunteer, 2023–present; ~500 hours; Helped register the program for the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation Volunteer Service Award.

○ Medical shadowing, 2023–present: Adult and pediatric emergency departments, cath lab, and OR; ~50 hours.

Medical Research

○ Outbreak Research with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2024–present: Social behaviors, infectious diseases, and protective interventions during a simulated virtual pathogen spread.

• Rodrigues, H. (2025) Improving Outbreak Prevention: The Role of Smart Card Programs for Increasingly More Frequent and Intense Epidemics and Pandemics. Submitted to National High School Journal of Science.

○ Collaboration of Rehabilitation Research Evidence (CORRE) Lab, 2024–present: Neurorehabilitation evidence and Evidence-Based Review of Acquired Brain Injury (ERABI).

• Mehrabi, S; Flores-Sandoval C; Fleet, J.L.; Dukelow, S.P.; Bateman, E.A.; Teasell, R. (2025) Changes in the Fugl-Meyer Scores in Randomized Controlled Trials of Stroke Rehabilitation Motor Upper Extremity by Time Post-Stroke: A Meta-Analysis. Submitted to Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair; contribution acknowledged in the paper.