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Whiz Kid of the Week: Lilly Chin
Westminster sophomore awarded for work with robotics and other science activites
- Lilly Chin, 15
- Westminster
- Accomplishment: The sophomore received a National Center for Women and Information Technology Award for Aspirations in Computing for her work with robotics and her other science and extracurricular activities. She is one of 15 young women from the state of Georgia to receive the award, which will be presented  in April at Georgia Tech.
- The daughter of Lih-Shen Chin and Lian Li of Decatur, Lilly takes AP calculus BC (a class normally meant for seniors), AP chemistry, English 10, political thought and speech, AP Spanish, and orchestra, where she plays the violin. The only girl on the school's robotics building and programming team, she focuses on coding.  "It's really amazing to see this pile of metal and electronics suddenly come alive under the code that you've written with the work of the past six weeks," she said in in an e-mail. Outside of school, Lilly said she pursues higher math classes through distance learning and helps out in her parents' lab.  She also enjoys taking math competitions like USAMTS, AMC, and Math Prize for Girls (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/video/video-girl-mathletes-run-the-numbers/7200/).Â
About her goals for the future, she says, "I'd like to first have an undergraduate degree of engineering, possible electrical or computer science, and then get a medical background. This way, with a strong foundation in both manipulating electronics and the medical field, I can better advance the field of biomedical technologies and hopefully make new innovative solutions, such as spinal cord replacement, that can interface and replace the neuron connections or artificial intelligence for humans."
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