Yong Yan (Crystal) Liang

At Staten Island Technical High School, Yong is the Co-Founder and Web Developer of “OpportuniTeens,” which is a student initiative that provides information about academic opportunities. She is an Electrical/Engineering Team member at the ACE Mentor Program, Technology Assistant at the Brooklyn Public Library and an Engineering Intern at the Department of Design and Construction. Yong also volunteers as an Instructor/Web Developer for the Youth In Code Nonprofit and is on the Youth Leadership Council at the NYC Department of Buildings. She participates in the HK Maker Lab Entrepreneurship and Engineering Program at Columbia University as well as the MIT Online STEM Engineering Program. Yong will attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology, majoring in Electrical Engineering and Bio-Engineering.