About
Hi, my name is Shao Yang. As an eager learner, I hope to expand my knowledge especially in the field of Math and Science. I am a person of tenacity, striving for constant self-improvement by embracing challenges that come my way, espcially in the field of Artificial Intelligence and robotics. I am innovative and can come up with effective solutions to address new problems that may arise.
Profile
Currently, I'm a JC 2 student at Anglo-Chinese Junior College.
- Website: sychai.com
- City: Singapore
- Age: 18
- Email: sychai271@gmail.com
My passion for programming and creating useful tools prompted me to join the Robotics Club CCA in secondary school. There, I was able to develop this interest and take up various leadership positions, most notably, CCA Vice-Chairperson. In JC, I continued to hone my skills in programming and engineering, joining the Engineering & Tech Programme Scholarship as well as becoming Vice-President of my STEM CCA. I also took part in the Nanyang Research Programme, where I utlised ML to model plant growth based on environemntal data collected by IoT sensors. My interest in Competitive Robotics continued, allowing me to clinch a second national title in Robotics and even represent Singapore at the International Final in Türkiye.
Achievements
My experiences from taking part in a myriad of competitions have been invaluable and I was able to learn and improve on my weaknesses every time.
Computing & Robotics
National Olympiad in Informatics
2025
- Silver Award
World Robot Olympiad International Final
2024
Represented Singapore at Interntional Final in Izmir, Türkiye
- Top 30 Placing Robomission Senior
World Robot Olympiad Singapore
2024
- Robomission Senior Champion
- Coder Award
National Robotics Competition
2021
- 1st in Overall Championship
- 1st in Best Programming
- 2nd in Best Robot Performance
Miscellaneous
Nanyang Research Programme
2024 - 2025
- Gold Award
Singapore Youth Festival
2025
- Distinction (Strings)
Ngee Ann Polytechnic Social Innovation Hackathon
2022
We had to ideate and develop solutions to social issues. Our idea was to create a game to gamify home gardening to encourage more people to partake in this activity. In the process, users will gain credits which can be used to support local produce. This in turn boosts the local food industry which is a step closer to reaching the 30 by 30 goal.
- 2nd Place Overall
Young Technopreneur Challenge
2022
The Young Technopreneur Challenge, sponsored by HP Inc. and supported by South West Community Development Council (CDC), aims to support students to take ownership of the world they live in and actively develop solutions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Singapore Green Plan 2030 and Sustainable South West Masterplan.
- 2nd Place Overall
School Awards
Founder's Day
2024
- Wan Fook Weng Award (Top in Cohort)
- Wong Ah Loong Science Scholarship
- H2 Computing Book Prize
- Scholastic Merit Award
Awards Day
2022
- 3rd in level
- 1st in class
- 1st in Biology
CCA Contribution Award
2023
Science & Math
International Mathematical Modelling Challenge
2025
Developed a statistical approach towards scheduling matches for a global sports league that balances competitive fairness, environmental sustainability and practicality.
- High Distinction (Singapore)
- Honourable Mention (International)
International Elementz Fair
2025
Designed an integrated system with IoT sensors and AI to monitor and enhance plant growth.
- Silver Award
Singapore Young Physicists' Tournament
2025
- Distinction Award
ETPS-NUS Tech for Tomorrow
2025
- 2nd Place in Energy & Sustainability Theme
44th CB Paul Science Quiz
2023
Competed in both Preliminary and Final rounds
- Individual Gold Award
- 3rd Place Team
Singapore Junior Chemistry Olympiad
2023
- Bronze Award
Singapore Junior Physics Olympiad
2023
- Individual Bronze Award
- Team Bronze Award
International STEM Olympiad
2022
Competed in Science Segment
- Bronze Award
Singapore and Asian schools Math Olympiad
2022
- Bronze Award
Singapore Mathematical Olympiad
2021
Competed in junior section
- Silver Award
Scholarships
Engineering & Tech Programme Scholarship
2024 - 2025
Edusave Scholarship
2021, 2022, 2023
Achieved top 10%
EAGLES Award
2022, 2023
Projects
Lastly, here are some notable projects which I have contributed to.
- All
- Games
- Robotics
- Web
This was my first web developemnet project after learning the fundamentals. This website was designed to showcase my groups's research and ideas for the 23rd Elementz Science Research Conference & Exhibition. In this project, I applied many concepts which I had learnt such as building a responsive layout using bootstrap, as well as learning how to style images via CSS.
This was another website that I made to showcase our teams proposal for a platform to encourage citizens to indulge in home gardening, in hopes of attaining the 30by30 goal. Similar to the Avis Fashion website, this was also made using bootstrap and vanilla CSS. Additionally, I was able to include some javascript which I had learnt along the way to enhance the user experience of the website.
The 2021 mission mainly involved collecting and depositing randomly arranged cars at respective locations while avoiding obsatles like barriers. I learnt various sorting and searching algorithms to optimise the collection of cars and implemented graph traversal algorithms to determine the shortest path to take.
