Salma Rayyan.

High school senior based in Amman, Jordan. Interested in AI, creative tech, writing, and building things.

Featured Project · 2026 – present
MUSE
Founder & Developer

Built and developed an iOS music guessing game with live voice recognition, featuring 3 game modes including live Spotify/Apple Music playlist scraping.

Developed simultaneous audio playback and speech capture via AVFoundation and SFSpeechRecognizer, along with an adaptive scoring engine that evolves based on player taste and performance.

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Education

IEC Schools
American High School Diploma · GPA 100/100

AP Scholar with Honor · AP Capstone Diploma Candidate

Experience

MUSE
Founder & Developer

Built and developed an iOS music guessing game with live voice recognition, featuring 3 game modes including live Spotify/Apple Music playlist scraping.

Developed simultaneous audio playback and speech capture via AVFoundation and SFSpeechRecognizer, along with an adaptive scoring engine that evolves based on player taste and performance.

Ammanreads Book Club
Founder

Founded Ammanreads, a teen and young adult book club fostering the love of storytelling within local communities across Jordan.

Manage operations including marketing, social media, monthly book selections, and leading discussions.

Speedcubing

Represented Jordan in official World Cube Association (WCA) competitions, achieving top 200 national rankings across multiple events, including a personal best of 35 seconds in the 3×3 Rubik's Cube.

Codability Summer Camp
Princess Sumaya University for Technology

Learned foundational coding and problem solving skills during C++ and Python workshops and collaborated with people on weekly projects.

Mind Lab Robotics & STEAM
Volunteer

Assisted kids in STEM and robotics workshops; guided them in coding projects using Python basics, Scratch, and Arduino; organized activities and simplified science concepts.

EQ Pop-Up Festival
Six Seconds & UNICEF · Event Organizer

Completed training workshop led by Ruba Al Sadi. Helped lead and organize SEL activities to foster emotional intelligence in kids over a two-day program.

Model United Nations

Active participant across schools and countries:

  • DJISMUN IX — Jeddah, KSA Best Judge · 2023
  • IECAP MUN 8th Conference Best Delegate · 2023
  • IECMUN'22 2022

creative projects

Aftertaste
Substack newsletter

Original essays on life, identity, and storytelling, blending personal reflection with cultural analysis. From coming-of-age experiences and film critiques to philosophical musings.

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