Melissa Yuan
Oak Ridge High School senior Melissa Yuan was chosen as a national winner for the 2016 Aspirations in Computing Award from NCWIT, or National Center for Women and IT.
Yuan was among 35 girls chosen from more than 3,100 applicants nationwide, Oak Ridge Schools said in a press release. She is only the third girl from Tennessee to ever win this award. The second was Patricia Edou from ORHS in 2015.
Yuan will receive an all-expenses paid trip, provided by Bank of America, to the National Award weekend, which includes the Award ceremony and showcase, March 4-6, 2016 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina. She will also receive $1,000 and a new laptop.
Yuan is a senior at Oak Ridge High School who is passionate about research and music. She is currently working on a data visualization project at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She enjoys getting involved with her community: She is the vice president of Student Council and a volunteer at the Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge, according to information provided by ORHS math and computer science teacher Keith Jackson.
“Melissa would like to study biomedical engineering and is currently undecided about where she is going to college,” the profile said.
More information will be added as it becomes available.
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