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2025-26 MIT Sailing Roster

Diba Demir

  • Height 5-5
  • Class First Year
  • Hometown Buckingham Browne and Nichols School

Biography

Before MIT:
  • The Cum Laude Society
  • Founded/Organized BB&N HacKnight (annual learnathon-hackathon CS event)
  • Founded/Cellist for Opening Harmonies (harp-cello-piano trio playing classical renditions of pop music for mental health awareness) Founded @igenbookworm (personal book review blog)
  • Boston Housing Authority Interpreter for 4 languages (French, Spanish, Turkish, and Chinese)
  • Harvard Museums of Science & Culture Volunteer
  • Sailing Team Captain
  • Robotics Team Captain
  • Computer Science Club President
  • BB&N Orchestra Cellist
  • Current Happenings Across STEM Magazine Editor/Writer
  • BB&N The Vanguard Columnist
  • National Youth Security Language Initiative Scholarship (NSLI-Y) Winner
  • AP Scholar with Distinction
  • BB&N Marina Keegan Fellowship Winner
  • BB&N Innovation Grant Winner
  • Center for Talented Youth Advanced Scholar
  • Yale Young Global Scholars Turkey/US Ambassador
Favorite Sports Memory:
  • Traveling to Nantucket with my high school sailing team, racing, and walking around the town there