Nicholas Chen

Experience

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  Youth Voices

  Jun 2021 - now

  Senior Debate Instructor

  Taught communication, research, and critical thinking to over 200 elementary, middle, and high school students. Have coached students to over 30 semi-final and final round finishes in national tournaments, including the winner of the 2022 and 2023 Harvard Middle School tournament and the 1st and 3rd place finishers in the 2022 Middle School Tournament of Champions. Duties include creating the curriculum, teaching class, handling parent questions, coordinating tournament registration, organizing free workshops, and hosting practice competitions. Show less

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  RAY CHINESE SCHOOL

  Jun 2021 - Aug 2021

  Debate Instructor

  Taught 18 students ranging from elementary to middle school the basics of Congressional Debate. Classes were taught 6 days a week for two hours. Duties included creating the curriculum, teaching class, and handling parent questions .

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  Business Executives for National Security (BENS)

  Sept 2022 - May 2023

  Development Research Associate

  Restructured membership database and key financial reports using Excel, making run times 6x faster. Analyzed and summarized over 40 years of financial data using Visual Basic and Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge.

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  Breakthrough Silicon Valley

  Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

  Teaching Fellow

  Collaborated with colleagues to develop and deliver math curriculum used across six classes of rising 8th grade students. Worked with colleagues to ensure lesson plans were adaptive to student needs, facilitating a department-wide 20 point average increase in post-assessment scores. Recognized by Instructional Coach for fostering an inclusive and engaging learning environment.

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  Accountability Research Center

  Aug 2023 - now

  Research Assistant

  Summarized open governance indicators for USAID missions using dplyr and ggplot in R.Constructed a reproducible script for cleaning and analyzing data from over 70,000 USAID grants and contracts.Deployed web dashboard visualizing USAID localization statistics.

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  Business Executives for National Security (BENS)

  Sept 2023 - Dec 2023

  Development Research Associate

  Prepared data visualizations and analysis of key financial statistics for CEO and board members.Researched and wrote briefs on a wide range of national security policy issues.