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WHERE VISION MEETS SCIENCE AND YOUTH INSPIRATION
WHERE VISION MEETS SCIENCE AND YOUTH INSPIRATION
NATIONAL EXECUTIVE BOARD
NATIONAL EXECUTIVE BOARD
Faizaan Siddique
Founder and President
Faizaan Siddique is a senior at Conestoga High School in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. After witnessing the relative lack of attention given to visual health and poor vision in today's digital era, Faizaan founded the Vision Awareness Initiative to inspire young voices to fight blindness. He is a 2025 Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS) Scholar and independently constructed a novel AI-based glaucoma diagnostic pipeline recognized in the NIH National Eye Institute's Eye on the Future Challenge. In his spare time, he can be found doing math, drawing, or playing basketball with friends and family.
Brandon Cai
Executive Director
Brandon Cai is a rising senior at Parkland High School. He has qualified for the National Junior Math Olympiad and has two bronze medals in the National Physics Olympiad. Through science fair research, he have developed technologies to help people with visual disabilities. He is a finalist in the Regeneron ISEF and DoD sponsored JSHS based on his computer vision research. At the 2024 Research Science Institute (RSI), he conducted research on visual search psychology at Brigham and Women's Visual Attention Lab. Outside of STEM, he is a two-time All-State Musician and has placed top 20 in the national NHD group website category.
Jaden Chen
Outreach Director
Jaden Chen is a senior from Illinois. He loves learning math, debating, and any tangents these can inspire, whether that be rigorously proving how dogs are better than cats or modeling the number of Culver’s in America. He is a USAMO qualifier, USAPhO qualifier, and 2x ICTM state champion. When he’s not exploring numbers, Jaden can be found reading, practicing piano, or preparing for his NHL tryout.
Bole Ying
Technology Director
Bole Ying is a student at Lower Merion High School passionate about math. Over the past couple years, he has qualified for the AIME 5 times, has been awarded a USAJMO honorable mention twice. He also qualified for the USAMO last year. Outside of academics he hopes to get better at poker.
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