Melanie Li

• The youth group is dedicated to promoting anti-bullying initiatives and voluntarily hosts activities for high schools in Vancouver.
• Serving as the department head of the group, mainly focusing on promotions to the public, working on creating an online forum, promotion and reaching out.
• Helping organize a forum for 300 high school students about anti-bullying in March 2024; the following forum will be in September 2024.
• The forum collects students’ opinions about bullying and their ideas for preventing violence.

Chair

• Leading 12 public council meetings to discuss and vote for roughly 24 council proposals a year, reporting the issues to the city council.
• Selected as Vancouver Executive Subcommittee member to decide the content of staff presentation and staff engagement.
• Currently, the proposals I have reported, which were approved by Vancouver City with your valuable input, have started implantation.
• In January 2024, individually proposed constructing traffic infrastructure near Lord Byng Secondary since serious accidents often happen. A new pedestrain and signs were implemented in June 2024.

• Researching on Vancouver issues using data and math models.
• Mainly working on gathering data from the census and database and creating the initial Math used for data analysis.
• Involving in investigating the mapping map to see if they are directing cars to bikeways.

• Courses and programs outside of schools:

1. Data Science – Columbia University, Spring program

2. UBC 220 - Number Theory

3. Introduction to Mathematical Thinking (online course from Stanford University)

4. Discrete Mathematics

5. Multivariable Calculus

6. IBM Data Science

7. Introduction to Statistic

• Topic: The Sequence Between Average Household Income and Cycling Infrastructure Expansion in Vancouver, Canada
• Data & Math Model-driven, using logistic regression model and mathematical support. Result concluding there existed cause-effect relationship between income change and expansion in cycling infrastructure, suggesting a factor of special inequality of a city.
• Topic: Impact of the new bikeway expansion: a casework in Vancouver, Canada
• Data and statistics driven. Using data from the Vancouver Data portal, an analysis of the new bikeway expansion’s impact on land value and local stores has been done. The conclusion is that there will be a positive effect on the local neighbourhood.

First Female President

• Leading Math club for 2 years, members increased from 70 to 140.
• Organize 8 mainstream math contests and 5 online webinars with university professors annually.
• Responsible for club promotion (members doubled), professors reaching out, webinar structure design, and regular teaching.
• Host meetings twice a week (1.5 hours/week) on contest knowledge.
• Initiated interschool (30+ high schools from 5 different countries) contests to inspire more students; Created a website and designed original questions.

• Free tutoring to students in elementary and high schools.
• Tutoring over 300 students
• Tutoring all STEM subjects

• Participated in MUN online visual camp and debate in a formal manner
• Daily meetings and lessons are given by professional teachers and instructors (5 hours/day)
• Represented as the delegate of Algeria

Research Topic: The new policy: the decline of admitted international students, how does it become an economic force in the urban areas in Canada?

• Led by university professors
• Having advanced math courses, topics including topology, algebra, number theory

Founder & President

• Our primary goal is to make Data familiar to the public and to empower student groups to tackle real-world issues using data-driven methods.
• Created club curriculum, associated with vice-principal for sponsoring, met weekly and hosted online webinars.
• Online teams with over 100 members
• Currently working on organizing data from graduates’ ceremony and dinner dance, helping school counsellors.
• Collaboration on the impact of releasing Animal Protection Law with clubs in 2 countries.

• Study on Globalization and Global Justice
• Grade: A
• Study with current undergraduates and graduate students.

• Monthly meeting
• Discuss and report the recent issue or ideas about cycling planning in the City of Vancouver to the Vancouver City Council.

• Working at Simon-Fraser University with current undergraduates and graduates
• 5 hours/day, volunteering for 2 weeks
• Teaching children about science and math.

• Music BA, by YC Music College, Canada.
• Leading Guzheng player of Vancouver Chinese music ensemble (over 50 musicians)
• Performances in Vancouver theatre and the Richmond government ceremony.
• Leader of the school Chinese music ensemble, having performances in several schools in Vancouver (2021 – present)
• Volunteering performance in nursing homes as NPO leader (2023 – present)
• Golden Bell Global Golden Prize