The world has taken note. For her innovative fashion designs, Tran has picked up two Scholastic Gold Keys, two Silvers and two Honorable Mentions, in addition to further recognition for her jewelry work and drawings and illustrations. In summer 2017, she was tapped to work as a design intern for Nicole Miller.
Well-rounded
Fashion successes aside, Tran has remained grounded at Exeter, and just as industrious in her other academic and extracurricular pursuits. She is the managing editor of Matter, Exeter’s STEM magazine; the editor-in-chief of arts and literary magazine Pendulum; a co-head of the multimedia club The Democracy of Sound; and a co-head of ESSO Tennis, a service group that offers tennis instruction to Seacoast-area children. Moreover, during her three and half years at the Academy she has founded two new clubs: Art From the Heart, which supplies Exeter Hospital’s Pediatric Rehabilitation Department with coloring books that have been hand-drawn by Exonians, and Metal Arts and Sculpturing Club, a 3-D art club that utilizes Exeter’s design lab.
While Tran’s initial desire to swim competitively at Exeter was later supplanted by an even stronger desire to learn tennis and squash, she remains very devoted to STEM subjects and hopes to merge her passions for art and science in college, possibly as an anthropology or psychology major. To that end, she has recently become interested in the concept of growing textiles using cultures of bacteria.
Exeter is Family
Though she is multi-talented and high-achieving, Tran, like most Exonians, has had her fair share of highs and lows during her Academy tenure. What has kept her balanced during the inevitable ups and downs, she says, is Exeter’s profound sense of community. “Wherever you go at Exeter, you have this family,” she reflects. “Whether it’s in the dorms, or on your sports teams, or in your classes. It’s like you’re never alone, even though you don’t have your parents here with you.”
