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KARLY HOU

Selected Press

NBC: College Student Creates Online Learning Center for Kids, People From 31 Countries Sign On
FOX: Harvard Student Develops Wave Learning Festival, Offers Free Online Courses
Today Show: 19 Online Activities to Keep Kids Educated and Entertained All Summer Long
Harvard SEAS: Turning the Tide in Educational Inequity
Good Morning America: Who is Making Asian American Pacific Islander History in 2021
ABC: Bay Area Harvard Student Launches Free Online Summer Courses
The Harvard Crimson: Seeking Purpose Amid Pandemic
NCWIT: Four Hundred U.S. High School Women Are Recognized for Technological Achievements (1 of 40 National Winners)
NVIDIA: NVIDIA's High School Robotics Interns Dive into Deep Learning
NVIDIA: From Munch to Hunch: AI Classifies Your Waste at Lunch
NCWIT: Nearly Four Hundred U.S. Women are Recognized for Technological Achievements
Growing Leaders: Three Myths About Leadership We Must Help Students Discard
Arcadia Weekly: Wave Learning Festival Teaches Kids Globally
Pasadena Independent: Wave Learning Festival Teaches Kids Globally
Monrovia Weekly: Wave Learning Festival Teaches Kids Globally
The Standard Journal: Wave Learning Festival Finding Niche in Changing Times

Invited Speaking Events

Aug 2023: North American Tsinghua Convention
Jul 2022: Sister Cities International
July 2021 (Closing Keynote): Women in Analytics Conference
Aug 2021: ASU x GSV Summit
Nov 2020: AI4Action
Sep 2020: Living the MEDLife: Making an Impact on Vulnerable Communities
Sep 2020: GirlsCodeData Hackathon
Various other podcasts & panels, like: Society 360, Sci-Section, And This is How it Started, RootTech, STEMEY

Recognition & Selected Awards

2021: We are Family Foundation: Global Teen Leader
2021: Kleiner Perkins Fellow
2021: Interact Fellow
2021: Harvard President's Innovation Challenge Social Impact Semifinalist
2020: John Harvard Scholar (top 5% of class)
2020: Harvard Jacob Wendell Prize Finalist (7 selected from sophomore class of 1666)
2019: NCWIT Aspirations in Computing National Award Winner (<1% of entrants selected)
2019: U.S. Presidential Scholars Semifinalist
2019: National Merit Scholar
2018: Girl Scouts Gold Award (<6% of Girl Scouts annually) for my work with Liaoning elementary schoolers on health and leadership
2018: USA Computing Olympiad (USACO) Gold Division
2018: Synopsys Science Fair Physical Sciences and Engineering 2nd Award, Society of Vacuum Coaters Special Contributor 3rd Award
2017: Siemens National Science Competition Semifinalist
2017, 2018: NCWIT Aspirations in Computing SF Bay Regional Winner (2x)
2017: North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO) Top 5%
2016: CA PLTW/Chevron Engineering Design Competition Regional 2nd Place

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