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Haiyan Xuan
Haiyan Xuan, a rising senior at Carmel High School, is keeping himself busy by contributing to the development of an online hackathon: CSYA Hacks.
As part of CSYA’s event, this hackathon encourages the development of an idea and any application that tackles a topic within the field of health. With close to $100,000 in prizes from well-established companies, Xuan says he is sure that this hackathon will turn out to be a huge success.
There will be two sub-events within this hackathon: the Ideathon and Hackathon. The Ideathon provides the participants to come up with a short presentation that features their idea, whereas the Hackathon showcases the actual web application that addresses solutions in educational institutions, such as increasing engagement and learning experience, etc.
Xuan is the Associate Secretary of CSYA, an international nonprofit that aims to provide free computer science courses for everyone, especially underrepresented groups. It started as a local campaign that was founded by Executive Director David Chung, at Riverside, Calif. Over time, the organization grew into an international nonprofit, gaining volunteers from different countries to make this mission come true.
The organization has over 100 students from nine different countries who have the liberty to choose between three unique, non-accredited courses:
- CS1: Intro to Python and Programming, which is taught by high school students
- ITCP1: Intro to Competitive Programming, which is taught by a college student volunteer
- CSR: Computer Science Research, which features different professors from around the nation to discuss their research
Xuan says he hopes people will take this amazing opportunity to learn how to work within a team to solve real-world problems. More information can be found at this link.
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