Joy Zou
Houston Chapter President
My name is Joy Zou and I am the president of the Houston Aerovate Chapter. I am currently attending Micheal E. DeBakey High school, a medical academy in Houston, Texas. I have been apart of the Aerovate tutoring team for 3 year and was the former vice president last year. I have a passion for teaching kids and helping those succeed in school and gain confidence in their academics.
I enjoy STEM concepts surrounding biology and physics and take interest in biomedical research. I have done internships at U of H and Baylor College of Medicine to perform research surrounding the medical field.
In school, I partake in clubs including SOAR, a club to fundraise for cancer patients, and Book Buddies, a club where we read to kids in hospitals. I found great inspiration from helping others and offering my work to benefit those in need.
I enjoy being around kids and inspiring them within school, but also building meaningful relationships that will benefit them in the future. I am privileged to be able to lead a wonderful team and change other students lives with them. I love to learn new topics and believe it’s something worth sharing among students through Aerovate.
Owen Maytum
Owen Maytum
Owen Maytum
Houston Chapter Vice President
My name is Owen Maytum. I am a junior and the current vice president for the tutoring club, Aerovate Houston chapter. I enjoy teaching people and giving them a greater understand of subjects while, helping them reach their academic goals . I am also a leader for the incoming freshmen at my school and will be guiding some of the through orientation. I enjoy activities like this as it allows to me to ease others into new environments and I want to help people not just academically but, in any way I can. I love the intrequencies of this world down to minute details making me love the subjects of math and science and, I hope to shine a light on what I love about these subjects.
Which, is why I am so excited to be apart of this orginization and expand my reach to a degree where I can educate more than just those at my school. I am excited to see what I can accomplish in aerovate while, helping others in the same way. I hope to lift other around me and help them accomplish what they truly aspire to do.
Feifan Liu
Owen Maytum
Owen Maytum
Houston Chapter Vice President
My name is Feifan Liu and I am the vice president of the Aerovate Houston Chapter. I am a junior at Bellaire High School in Houston, Texas. I have been interested in education ever since I have seen how capricious teaching styles can be throughout our school years. Some teachers are very interactive and effective in teaching students multiple different ways to think about concepts, while other teachers rely on textbooks and structured teaching (which is not effective for everyone). I tutor elementary school students at Ed White Elementary for a volunteering organization called AYLUS, and I have a lot of experience tutoring classmates and friends in difficult subjects like Chemistry, Precalculus, and French. I thoroughly enjoy these experiences as I not only am able to improve somebody's life and their education, but also improve my own understanding of a subject. I am a member of the Bellaire chapter as well as the Mayor of the Gulf Coast Region in the Junior State of America, where we focus on interaction between young leaders who wish to be politically involved. I am also a Varsity Debater for Bellaire's Public Forum Debate program, where I qualified to the TFA State Tournament and made it to Octafinals.
I was a member of the Carnegie Vanguard High School Artificial Intelligence Club in 8th and 9th grade and won 2nd place at the eHack for Charity 24hr Hackathon in the summer of 2021.
I am passionate about learning about the beauty of the natural world and the human body and hope to share my passion and wonder with students through Aerovate.
