About the YLP COE Scholarship Program
The YLP COE Scholarship is a merit-based academic scholarship award provided to outstanding contributors at the YLP. Specifically, the Scholarship is awarded to individuals who demonstrates an outstanding contribution to the growth and success of the Young Leaders Program at the Greater Seattle Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Each year, the Managing Director of the YLP will announce a list of nominated cohorts who met or exceeded the performance expectation throughout their involvement at the YLP or at the partnering organization that works closely with the YLP. The Scholarship will be awarded in January and its recipients will serve their Award Year by using their talent and experiences to help the YLP team to continuously improve our program offerings for the YLP Community.
2021 YLP COE Scholarship Recipient: Amanda Ong
The Greater Seattle Chinese Chamber of Commerce and its, Young Leaders Program Center of Excellence team (YLP COE), is proud to award this year's YLP COE Scholarship to Amanda Ong.
Amanda has been working with our Chamber and the YLP COE team since January 2020 to help our multidisciplinary student team to pursue a social project that benefits the local Chinese community. She is a junior at the University of Washington majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Computational Neuroscience. In her Freshman year, Amanda interned with the ALVA (Alliance for Learning and Vision for Underrepresented Americans) program where she worked in a computational chemistry lab. Since then, she has been pursuing research and this summer, she worked as an undergraduate fellow with the UW Center of Neurotechnology to improve treatments for neurological disorders. Outside of research, she has a strong passion for giving back to her community, and currently serves as a UW SWE (Society for Women Engineers) major chair, a mentorship program designed to help UW students on navigate their educational pathways and get involved with extracurriculars on campus. As a part of the YLP Center of Excellence team, she plans to expand mentorship opportunities for students in the Young Leaders Program, as well as empower participants and alumni of the YLP with skills to be self-starters and leaders in their careers.
As a Scholarship recipient, she will continue to work with the YLP COE team to expand the mentorship program and empower the YLP students to create more positive impact to the local community.
Amanda has been working with our Chamber and the YLP COE team since January 2020 to help our multidisciplinary student team to pursue a social project that benefits the local Chinese community. She is a junior at the University of Washington majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Computational Neuroscience. In her Freshman year, Amanda interned with the ALVA (Alliance for Learning and Vision for Underrepresented Americans) program where she worked in a computational chemistry lab. Since then, she has been pursuing research and this summer, she worked as an undergraduate fellow with the UW Center of Neurotechnology to improve treatments for neurological disorders. Outside of research, she has a strong passion for giving back to her community, and currently serves as a UW SWE (Society for Women Engineers) major chair, a mentorship program designed to help UW students on navigate their educational pathways and get involved with extracurriculars on campus. As a part of the YLP Center of Excellence team, she plans to expand mentorship opportunities for students in the Young Leaders Program, as well as empower participants and alumni of the YLP with skills to be self-starters and leaders in their careers.
As a Scholarship recipient, she will continue to work with the YLP COE team to expand the mentorship program and empower the YLP students to create more positive impact to the local community.
Want to be the next YLP COE Scholarship recipient?
To receive nomination, you must be an active member of the YLP who serves, at the very least, one project term. Go to our "Join Us" page to learn more about how you can get involved.