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The volunteers at ICEA are the heart and soul of our organization. Their generous contributions of time and energy have made a significant impact on the lives of those we serve. We are deeply grateful for their dedication and support, and we could not do what we do without them.  We are also proud of the diverse and meaningful opportunities that we have been able to provide for our volunteers, and we have seen firsthand the ways in which they have grown and developed as a result. From gaining new skills and experience to building valuable relationships, our volunteers have truly benefited from their involvement with ICEA.

The President’s Service Volunteer Awards

2023 The President’s Service Volunteer Awards

Gold Award:
Jasmine Li, Felix Guo
Silver Award:
Alex Wang, Esther Jou, Miana Guo
Bronze Award:
Austin Huang ...
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2022 The President’s Service Volunteer Awards

Gold Award:
Felix Guo, Claire Huang, Stephen Chen, Jerry Li
Bronze Award:
Helena Chen, Jade Ye, Miana Guo, Jessica Zhang, Lucas Jia ...
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Meet our Volunteers

Diana Su

Diana Su is a sophomore in the Classical Voice Conservatory at Orange County School of the Arts, interested in music, science, and Chinese culture. Exploring these passions has led her to become a founder of the Traditional Music Club at school, an initiative aimed at fostering creativity in young minds through the fusion of music and cultural exploration. Diana serves as the vice president of the school's Future Health Professionals Club, committed to fostering a supportive environment for students passionate about pursuing careers ...
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Patrick You

Patrick(Kaijun) You is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a double major in Film Studies and Communication. His experience includes directing television variety shows in China that gained billions of views globally, as well as producing cover music videos focusing on pop music. With a passion for internet culture and digital media, Kaijun is enthusiastic about bringing fresh perspectives to ICEA's marketing team. His contributions will help create engaging content that not only increases influence but also highlights the dedication ...
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Natalia Ramos

Natalia Ramos is a publicist with expertise in applying artificial intelligence to digital marketing. She is passionate about educating individuals on new technologies, enabling them to integrate this knowledge into their businesses for increased brand visibility and improved sales in social media. Moreover, she has contributed to the growth of regional news in Colombia and collaborated with Heineken and Corona in their brand experiences. I.C.E.A. Volunteer Experience: [2024] Train ICEA Marketing Team [2024] Manage ICEA Social Media to report Lunar ...
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Gavin Cheung

Gavin is an 8th grader at The Science Academy with a passion for mathematics that began at a very young age. He started learning the abacus at the age of 6, achieving Level 2 in mental abacus and Level 4 in the physical use of the abacus. Additionally, Gavin began playing the piano at the age of 5 and has continued to do so, now advancing to Level 10 of the Certificate of Merit. Furthermore, Gavin developed a strong interest ...
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Angela Huang

Angela Huang is a 10th grader attending the Orange County School of Arts. She studies in the film conservatory with a passion in making films that touch among the marginalized topics of mental health of the complex human mind. Beyond film, she has a passion for psychology and mental health which has made her create a club at school in which teaches people about concepts of psychology. She also has formed and is a president of a mental health for ...
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Felix

He began his volunteering journey at the young age of 7. He founded the ICEA Math and Chess clubs, as well as the GlobalAirlearning.org program. Due to his tireless efforts, he received the Gold President Volunteer Award for four consecutive years since 2019. Felix has been admitted to Windward School's Class of 2029 as a rising 7th grader. Through his immersive volunteering, he has become an experienced math and chess teacher, having taught over 100 students. He also trains other ...
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Hannah Xie

Hannah Xie is a junior at Stanford Online High School, with an interest in business and finance, and a student at Brigham Young University’s Independent Studies program. Exploring these interests led to Co-founding BECA, a coalition educating adolescents in the fields of business, economics, computation, and the arts in addition to becoming her school’s Yearbook Copy Editor. She has been playing piano for more than ten years, receiving the Certificate of Merit’s State Honor for completing the Advanced level. Hannah ...
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Esther Jou

Esther Jou is a 11th grader at Acaciawood Prep in Anaheim and a USCF Expert with a peak rating of 2163. She is a competitive chess player and has many accomplishments, Esther is also team member of ICEA Chess Team for 2023 SoCal. SuperStates Championship and won the top female in K-12 championship and is nominated to represent Southern California in the WIM Ruth Haring National Tournament of Girls State Champions. Esther has been serving as ICEA Coach since 2022. I.C.E.A. Volunteer ...
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Alex Wang

Alex Wang is a 11th grader at Corona Del Mar high school and a National Master with a peak USCF rating of 2273. Other hobbies that he likes to do are ping-pong and reading. He enjoys sharing his understanding of chess with others. Alex is also the captain of ICEA Chess Team for 2023 SoCal. SuperStates Championship and lead the team won the 1st place of K-12 Championship. I.C.E.A. Volunteer Experience: [2022] Captain of ICEA Chess Team to participate in SoCal. SuperStates ...
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Jasmine Li

Jasmine is a student at Notre Dame Academy High School; she’s been playing violin and piano for many years. She’s currently in Colburn’s Ed and Mari Edelman Chamber Music Institute, a comprehensive pre-college level chamber music learning experience. Her most recent accomplishments are winning 1st place in the 2022 CAPMT Southern California Regional Concerto Competition, and 2nd place in the State Finals. She was also featured with the violinist Gil Shaham on violinist.com as a special guest on Gilharmonic (violin ...
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Stephen Chen

In 2021, during his 10th-grade year, Stephen dedicated his time to volunteering with ICEA, making significant contributions to the development of Global AirLearning's new website. His outstanding efforts were acknowledged by the ICEA organization, playing a role in securing early admission to his preferred university, Duke University, in 2024 ...
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Jerry Li

Jerry Li has been an active volunteer with ICEA since his 10th grade, playing a key role in the development of Global AirLearning's new website and imparting knowledge of web technologies to other young learners. His dedicated service earned him recognition from the ICEA organization, facilitating his early admission to Cornell University, his preferred institution, in 2023 ...
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Cindy Lin

Cindy Lin served as a math coach with ICEA, instructing Pre-Algebra during her 10th-grade years in both 2020 and 2021. Her valuable contributions were acknowledged by the ICEA organization, contributing to her successful admission to Princeton University in 2023 ...
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Sarah Zhang

Sarah Zhang, a junior in high school, volunteers at ICEA’s Mandarin Musical Theater program by writing articles to secure publicity in local magazines. Academically, Sarah participates in her school’s Academic Decathlon team, winning 7 medals and the 7k Club Award during competitions. She is now team captain of the AcaDeca team. Beyond the books, Sarah is part of an ice skating team that won fourth place while representing the USA in an international ice theater competition, Nations’ Cup. Additionally, Sarah ...
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Yiling Luo

Yiling Luo, graduated from Beijing Film Academy, currently a graduated student at the University of Melbourne in Australia, joined ICEA as a volunteer in 2018 and has served ICEA for over 200 hours. During her service, she organized two West Los Angeles Chinese Spring Festival Gala together with ICEA team to contribute to the development of the Chinese community in Los Angeles. I.C.E.A. Volunteer Experience: Media Director of 2019 Lunar New Year Gala. Media Director of 2020 Lunar New Year ...
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Ruoshan

Ruoshan began volunteering with ICEA during her junior year at Harvard-Westlake School. After dedicating two years to volunteering, she was admitted to Berkeley University in 2022. She is passionate about the intersection of computer science, entrepreneurship, and biomedical research. She is the only high school intern at the Kuhn-Hicks Lab of USC, where she uses machine learning algorithms and single cell microscopy to research cancer cell morphology and gene alteration. She is the co-founder of innovaTEEN, an online platform dedicated to ...
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Claire Huang

Claire has taught Art Classes for ICEA Community since 2021 and is currently in high school. She won second place in a bookmark contest, and an award of merit for a reflection’s contest at school, and second place in a sketching contest. She started drawing when she was nine and has a strong passion for art! I.C.E.A. Volunteer Experience: [2021] Taught Anime Art [2021-2022] Taught Anime Drawing and Comic Art classes to raise fund for more than $1000 [2023] Receptionist of Musical Theater Public Performance ...
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Ziang Hong

Ziang Hong graduated from UC San Diego with a double major in Computer Science and Physics. In 2020, he began volunteering with ICEA and contributed to the development of several features for their website. He then showcased his leadership skills by leading the project for Global AirLearning's new branding website. Through his volunteer work, Ziang was able to hone his engineering skills, leading to his successful Amazon internship and eventual offer for a full-time position at Meta. I.C.E.A. Volunteer Experience: ...
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Kevin Zhang

Kevin is a 5th grader at Jing Mei Elementary School, he is a national winner of Math Kangaroo Competition and he is a member of ICEA Math Club. In his free time, he likes doing math, music, reading, writing and Badminton. His favorite subjects at school are math, writing, science, and language arts. I.C.E.A. Volunteer Experience: [2021] Global AirLearning Presenter/Host/Coordinator [2021] Math Bash Event Planning & Fund Raising ...
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Elnara Pashazadeh

Elnara is a sophomore at Palisades Charter High School in California. She loves to film and edit and videos and is excited to explore the opportunities that ICEA gives her. She is interested in reading, writing, and in her spare time she likes to ice skate and hike. Previously, she has volunteered for an online tutoring organization as a marketer and tutor. She was also a counselor in training  for a local summer camp in which she received an award for ...
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Hayk

Hayk is a twelfth grader from Armenia. He has won a silver medal in the IMO 2020. He is interested in mathematics, classical music and politics ...
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Teacher Tanya

Teacher Tanya has been teaching for over 29 years.  She speaks several different languages and is passionate about educating children. She is one of the most popular teachers of ICEA teaching programs ...
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Helena

Helena is going to fifth grade (2021 to 2022) at Endeavour Elementary. She enjoys drawing,  dancing,  listening to music,  puzzles, doing math problems and playing tennis. In the future,  Helena hopes to continue to dance ...
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Emanuel Martinez

Emanuel is a graduate from Santa Monica High School. He has been working in retail for 6 years and in his free time he is a photographer, video editor, and music producer. His goal is to help other people succeed, learn new skills, and create valuable pieces of art ...
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Sienna Hahn

Sienna is a high school sophomore at West Ranch High School. She has been dancing since the age of three. She loves to film and edit videos. She took art and piano lessons for many years and have a passion for business and advertisement. She is also willing to help people around her ...
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Amabel Li

Amabel is a Project Manager at CBRE, the world’s largest commercial real estate services firm. She loves public speech very much. She is the Founder of SNC-Lavalin Vancouver Corporate Toastmasters Club; and was the Mentor of Kerr Wood Toastmaster Club Officers. She won 1st Place in Humorous Speech Contest in Toastmasters Area 80 in 2011. She was a Seminar Speaker of Society of Project Management Professional in 2011 and got 2nd Place - audience evaluation results. In 2021, she was the ...
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Lucas

Born November 21, 2005, Lucas has accomplished very little of memorability in his 14 years, but that’s okay. As a freshman, Lucas competed as a varsity level cross country runner at his high school LACES, and placed among the top 5 teams in the LA CIF 2019 City Finals. He also has culminated from the master duplication painting courses at Mission Renaissance, and continues his journey to pursuing proficiency in visual arts. I.C.E.A Volunteer Experience: Assistant teacher of Physics 101 ...
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William

William is an 8th grader at Manhattan Beach Middle School. He likes reading and doing competition math in his spare time. He is ranked 7th in California state-wise in the Mathcounts competition this year, and has led the Manhattan Beach Middle School MathCounts Team to the state competition twice. He has achieved Honor Roll of Distinction (top 1% nationwide) on the AMC10 contest and made into AIME (American Invitational Mathematics Examination) twice. He has also achieved perfect score on the ...
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