2021: Top 10 global winner in Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Junior AI for Good Challenge
2021: Top 3 global finalist team in the New York Academy of Science’s Bias in AI Challenge
2021: Canadian Chemistry Olympiad Bronze Medal & selected for the National Training Camp for International Team consideration
2021: 1st place worldwide on the Avogadro Chemistry Exam, written by 2974 students globally
2020: Provincial Champion and International Qualifier at the DECA Ontario Provincial Competition
2018: Bronze Medal and Home Innovation Award at York Region Science & Technology Fair
2018: Scholastic Challenge National School Team Gold Medalist and 2x School Medalist
2017: Bronze Medal on Uneven Bars at Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Provincial Championships
2016: Completion of the Abacus & Mental Study CAMS Master Level
2016 – present: Multiple distinctions & honor rolls in nationwide math contests since age 10 with scores in the top 0.1% to top 2.5%

Hi! I’m Samantha, a young blockchain developer from Toronto passionate about creating an impact with technology. I’m especially interested in the social impact of blockchain, having built a decentralized application for property registration in developing countries and a framework to secure industrial control systems and prevent cyberattacks on power plants. As a smart contract developer at ViewFin, I’m currently building a platform to prevent child labor in chocolate supply chains. I’m also working to publish a research paper on smart contract verification with a professor and PhD students at the University of Waterloo. In July 2020, I founded a non-profit called Superposition Toronto, dedicated to bridging the gender gap in STEM. Since then, we’ve reached 27 countries in all inhabited continents with our workshops, panels, and contests, and are currently launching a podcast and planning Toronto’s first all-women/non-binary hackathon open to students of all ages. I also participate in olympiad-level chemistry, and was invited to the National Training Camp in May 2021 and placed 1st worldwide on the Avogadro Chemistry Contest out of almost 3000 participants. I’m currently working to use my knowledge in chemistry to commercialize a company I founded called AeroPure, which uses polysaccharide aerogels to filter industrial waste from drinking water.