YiYe Academy

Foundation Education Awards

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We are dust, we are nothingness.
All we do is nothing but the wind.
我们是尘土，是虚无。
我们所做的一切不过是风。

This year, we are thrilled to continue the YiYe Academy, founded by Aimee Liu who has been an advisor of iGEM since 2017, she began to provide scholarships for outstanding students of iGEM high school teams. It is hard for a high school student to carry out the entire procedure of raising a question, designing an experiment, doing the experiment, analyzing the results, and promoting the project. Also, it is harder for them to raise funds than their undergraduate and graduate counterparts because high school students have less experience in doing research. Still, through collaboration with their teammates, many students overcame all the difficulties and carried out outstanding iGEM projects meaningful to the science community. The overview of YiYe Academy is below:

Introduction

YiYe Academy Foundation Education Awards (YAFEA) is proud to offer quarterly awards to the ambitious students who have demonstrated high skills and academic achievements in their respective fields and who have participated in the iGEM high school teams in the world.

Application Fund Policy

YAFEA will grant selected applicants a financial award for their compelling essays on science, outdoors, and adventure activities.

You can submit your application via the YAFEA Foundation Education Award Application Form. To apply, write an essay (up to 1500 words) focusing on one of the questions on the form. The check for the awards will be sent directly to you.

Applicants must submit their application via the YiYe Academy Foundation Application Form.

Total Award Amount: Each quarter, a student will be awarded a scholarship of at least 2000 RMB.

Application Deadlines:All applicants must submit their forms and their essays prior to January 1st.

Application Email: aimee_liut@hotmail.com

Application Deadlines

  • 1st Quarter: Award recipient is announced by mid-April, for all applications submitted from January 1 through March 30.
  • 2nd Quarter: Award recipient is announced by mid-July, for all applications submitted from April 1 through June 30.
  • 3rd Quarter: Award recipient is announced by mid-October, for all applications submitted from July 1 through September 30.
  • 4th Quarter: Award recipient is announced by mid-January, for all applications submitted from October 1 through December 31.

2021 YAFEA Winners

  • Spring: 2017 iGEMer Carisa ZENG (now at the University of Chicago)
  • Summer: 2017 iGEMer Chenyu HOU (now at Nanyang Technological University)
  • Autumn: 2019 iGEMer Shuzhou LI (now at Cornell University)
  • Winter: 2021 iGEMer Katherine TANG (now at the University of Virginia)