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
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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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
Cindy Lin
Cindy Lin is a student of Mira Costa High School 2023 with a strong interest in mathematics and its various applications. Cindy was admitted to Princeton University in 2023. She was the highest individual score for math olympiad in pacific elementary 2014-2016. In addition to math, she also enjoys computer science. Cindy is also involved in music, and is enrolled in her school’s Symphony Orchestra as a violinist. In addition, she was also nationally ranked in badminton prior to the pandemic. I.C.E.A. Volunteer Experience: ...
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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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Felix
Felix 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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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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Jerry
Jerry has been volunteering with ICEA since 10th grade. He has contributed to the development of Global AirLearning's new website and has taught web technologies to other kids. Through his volunteer work, Jerry gained recognition from the ICEA organization, which helped him get early admission to his favorite university, Cornell University in 2023. At school, he is the top programmer for the robotics team for FRC and is also a member of the coding club. He is preparing for the ...
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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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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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Stephen Chen
Stephen Chen, currently a sophomore and he is interested in STEM topics. He likes coding very much, specialized in coding in HTML/CSS/JavaScript for web development and C/C++ for algorithmic studies or data analysis. He is experienced with web development as well as algorithmic coding. He individually developed his personal website, as well as two different versions of a game called Mafia inspired by his friends. He is excited to meet and work with other people. I.C.E.A. Volunteer Experience: [2021] Global AirLearning ...
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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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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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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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