
	{"id":4080,"date":"2017-09-05T01:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/blog\/?p=4080"},"modified":"2017-09-05T09:29:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T13:29:49","slug":"imacs-success-spotlight-snow-kang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/imacs-success-spotlight-snow-kang\/","title":{"rendered":"IMACS Success Spotlight: <br\/>Snow Kang"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blog-image\">\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imacs.org\/success-stories\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/spotlights-snow-fb2-small.jpg\" alt=\"After-school, weekend and online programs in math and computer science for gifted children who enjoy fun, academic challenges.\" title=\"Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4133\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-caption\">\nCongratulations to IMACS graduate Snow Kang who is beginning her studies at Dartmouth.\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Snow began IMACS in 1st grade and completed all levels of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imacs.org\/class-curriculum\/math-enrichment\/\">IMACS Math Enrichment<\/a>. She returned during high school to complete the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/parent_ucs_overview.htm\">IMACS University Computer Science<\/a> track. Snow&#8217;s talents and keen interest in programming, civics, and service propelled her to 1st place finishes at FIU&#8217;s Google Startup Competition, Ft. Lauderdale&#8217;s Code for America Civic Hackathon, JusticeHack Miami, and Yale&#8217;s Bulldog Invitational Mock Trial Competition.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being selected as a National Merit Finalist, Snow was named Cadet of the Year by the Florida Wing of the Civil Air Patrol and won 1st Place at the National Cadet Special Acts Competition. Snow credits IMACS for the way she thinks and approaches every aspect of her life.<\/p>\n<p>With a 5.5 GPA, 1580 out of 1600 on the SAT, and 800 on the SAT Math II exam, Snow was accepted at Dartmouth, UC Berkeley, NYU, Vanderbilt, Wellesley, and the University of Miami. She chose <b>Dartmouth<\/b> where she plans to double major in Computer Science and Economics and eventually pursue a career in cyberlaw or cybersecurity.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 2em 2em;\">\n<p><b><font face=\"georgia\" size=3>&ldquo;IMACS is the one place that doesn&#8217;t teach you steps to get to a specific solution but rather how to use logical and creative thinking to develop your own solution. It is the embodiment of everything learning should be.&rdquo;<\/font><\/b>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Snow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to IMACS graduate Snow Kang who is beginning her studies at Dartmouth. Snow began IMACS in 1st grade and completed all levels of IMACS Math Enrichment. She returned during high school to complete the IMACS University Computer Science track. Snow&#8217;s talents and keen interest in programming, civics, and service propelled her to 1st place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,77,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-programming","category-math-enrichment","category-online-classes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}