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VIVIAN PHUNG

Bryn Mawr College Computer Science and Mathematics Major

  • Contact

  • vivianphung@outlook.com

    (510) 755-8184

    Linkedin | GitHub | Instagram

    2018 Conference Scholarships
    SIGNAL: Twilio Customer & Developer Conference
    Techcrunch Disrupt SF
    Oculus Connect 5

    Underwriting Award for the 2018 Teen Vogue Summit
    Teen Vogue

    2018 Aspirations in Computing (AiC) Honorable Mention
    National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) Bay Area Affiliate

    Award Ceremony on Saturday, March 24th, 2018

    2018 Awardees

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    2017 Congressional App Challenge Winner
    California, 13th Congressional District

    #HouseOfCode on April 12th, 13th, and 14th, 2018

    Press Release 2017 Awardees
    LGBT Weekly Alameda Patch
    Alameda Unified Alameda Sun

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    2017 Heart of Hayward
    City of Hayward

    Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition
    U.S. Congressman, Eric Swalwell

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    Commendation from the Board of Supervisors, County of Alameda, State of California
    Second District Supervisor, Richard Valle

    City of Hayward Certificate of Appreciation
    Mayor, Barbara Halliday

    California State Legislature Certificate of Recognition
    AssemblyMember, Bill Quirk and Senator, Robert Hertzberg

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    July 2017 Volunteer of the Month
    Hayward Area Park and Recreation District

    Outstanding Contribution Award
    Alameda County Office of Education, Alameda County Tobacco Control Coalition

    • Courses


    • Single Variable Calculus
      Math 3A | Calculus I
      Sum
      '16

      Linear Algebra
      Math 3F
      Fall
      '16

      Single Variable Calculus
      Math 3B | Calculus II
      Fall
      '16

      Multivariable Calculus
      Math 3C | Calculus III
      Spring
      '17

      Differential Equations
      Math 3F
      Spring
      '17

      Discrete Mathematics
      Math 11
      Spring
      '17

      Microeconomics
      Econ 2
      Fall
      '17

  • Education

    • Alameda Science and Technology Institute
      High School Diploma
      Jun 2018

      Honor Roll

      Rising Star in English
      2016
      Rising Star in Physics
      2016
    • Laney College
      Associates of Sciences in Mathematics
      May 2018

      Highest Honors

      Bryn Mawr College
      Bachelor in Mathematics and Computer Science
      Exp. 2022

      Merit Scholarship


    • Experience

    • Girls Who Code
      Sisterh>>d Council Member and College Loop President
      • Advised on Sister>>d, a digital visual album, to inspire girls to believe or continue to believe they can achieve anything. (Sister>>d Council)
      • 1 of 4 alumnae selected to speak on GWC’s expert panel at their World Economic Forum session
      • Received a full scholarship from Deloitte to the 2018 iPhone App Development Campus Course at Harvey Mudd College
      • Created weekly content on the GWC app, Loop, and coordinated monthly attendance to events in the Bay Area (Mentor)
      • Featured as the GWC of the week in October 2017
      • 1 of 5 Summer Immersion Program (SIP) students nationwide in 2017 awarded Spotlight Student to write an article for their blog
      • 1 of 17 girls chosen nationwide to learn how to code in seven weeks at Facebook Headquarters
      • Attended trainings designed for executives, met individually with recruiters, and took mock interviews w/ engineering managers (SIP)
      Aug '17 to Present
    • Black Girls CODE
      Technology Assistant
      • Taught girls between the ages of eight and twelve Scratch, Python, and building on a Raspberry Pi for two summer camps.

      Website
      Jul '18 to Aug '18
    • Alameda Unified School District
      Homework Workgroup
      • 1 of 3 student representatives selected in the school district to rewrite the district’s homework policy and practices
      • Facilitate focus groups in elementary, middle, and high schools to receive community input
      • Present policy recommendations to the Alameda Unified School District Board

      Website
      Jun '17 to Present
    • City of Hayward
      Sub-Committee Co-Chair, Community Task Force
      • Approve, edit, and draft new policies to update the 1992 Anti-Discrimination Action Plan as the only appointed youth rep.
      • 1 of 20 representatives selected by the City Council to represent Hayward, the third most diverse city in the nation
      • Lead community conversation (town hall) meetings to get constituency input

      Website Video Plan Draft
      Jan '17 to Sep '18
    • Goldman Sachs
      Pride Summit and Virtual Insight Series
      • Selected from a pool of 600+ applicants to participate in a summit introducing the financial services industry (Pride)
      • Interacted with Goldman Sachs' LGBT professionals across all revenue-producing and federation divisions
      • Developed networking and professional skills through various workshops throughout the summit and series
      Mar '18 to Aug '18
    • Kode With Klossy
      Teacher Assistant and Scholarship Recipient
      • 1 of 20 high school females in the SF Bay Area who received the 2017 (Level 1) and 2018 (Level 2) scholarship
      • Support the facilitation of the 2018 Kode with Klossy Camp in Denver, CO
      • Learned how build Ruby web applications (Level 1) and JavaScript (Level 2) in two weeks in a female only environment

      Website
      Jun '17 to Jul '18
    • City of Hayward
      Intern, Mayor and City Clerk
      • Created Macros to automate manual work using Visual Basic for Applications on Excel and Word
      • Recruited the most diverse and largest application pool in the Hayward Youth Commission's history
      • Developed Social Media Guide
      Sep '17 to Jun '18
    • Alameda County Office of Education
      Tobacco Use Prevention Education (TUPE) Youth Board
      • Organized an annual high school, two middle school, and an educator’s conference at University of California, Berkeley
      • Established and award a districtwide Tobacco Awareness Competition
      • Wrote, produced, and starred in the annual county tobacco awareness public service announcement

      Website 2018 PSA Video 2017 PSA Video 2018 Contest 2017 Contest
      Aug '16 to Jun '18
    • City of Hayward
      Sub-Committee Chair, Hayward Youth Commission
      • 1 of 24 youth appointed by the City Council to represent youth in Hayward
      • Enacted a community service requirement pilot program in the Hayward Unified School District (effective ’17-’18)
      • Proposed policy to the City Council, Hayward Unified School District, and Hayward Area Recreation and Park District

      Website Proposal Powerpoint Proposal Handout
      Jun '16 to Jun '18
    • FIRST FRC Team 4186 Island City Robotics
      Management Captain
      • Manage fundraising, marketing, and recruitment of a 40-student robotics team
      • Spokesperson at FIRST FCR Robotics events and between high schools and the team
      • Corroborate with code team

      Website
      Aug '14 to Jun '18
    • USS Hornet Museum
      Educational Intern
      • Created curriculum and aide personal in teaching a half-day summer camp
      • Assisted the review and test of an electrochemistry curriculum developed with the United States Naval Academy STEM Outreach Office

      Website
      Jun '16 - Jul '16

    • Portfolio

    • GNR: Restrooms for All

      finds Gender Neutral Restrooms anywhere in America! When creating GNR, the web app originally ran on Sinatra (a Ruby framework). Afterwards, GNR transitioned to Flask (a Python Framework). This web app won the 2017 Congressional App Challenge for California, 13th Congressional District!

      Website Repository
    • ESAFE

      takes user information for cities to use during natural disasters. Using Flask, a person can register, login, and view personal data. An admin can also view all the user data in a user-friendly database and text everyone in the database with a touch of a button. This was created as our group’s Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program 2017 final project.

      Website Repository
    • First Computer Science Portfolio

      was created at Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program 2017 at Facebook HQ. This was my first time creating my own website.

      Website Repository
    • Django Blog

      Using Django, an admin can create posts, comments, and draft posts. Anyone can also comment, but the comment needs an admin’s permission to be seen. The admin does not need to go to the admin portal to make posts, edit posts, or approve comments. Admins’ can login by pressing the lock.

      Website Repository
    • Stager

      Stager is an website that takes information for every stage at Outside Land like the artists whom is playing. This was created at the 2017 Outside Lands Hackathon. You can also see what is going on through our integrated twitter feed which is linked to twitter bots that will retweet messages containing a hashtag. Therefore, people can see what's going on at each stage and if they want to head toward it.

      Website Repository

    • Press / Publications

    • Sisterh>>d Album
      "Ode" (Featuring Fereshteh Forough and Vivian Phung)

      Girls Who Code

      Video

    • Girls Who Code Drops a New Digital-Visual Album to Celebrate ‘Modern Sisterhood’
      AdWeek

      Excerpt: “Whenever I need help or I’m feeling like, ‘Oh my god, how am I going to do this?’ I can turn to them.”

      More about the Sisterh>>d Album
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    • What Advice Do You Have for Younger Students?
      New York Times
    • 5 Pearls of Wisdom About College for Students Starting Their First Year
      New York Times

      Excerpt: "Vivian Phung, 18, who plans to major in computer science and mathematics at Bryn Mawr College this fall..."

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    • When Your Middle Name is Modem, and You’re Cool With It
      New York Times

      Excerpt: "If I am not mistaken, “Viv” or “Vivi” comes from Latin, where it means alive, lively, life..."

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    • Girls Who Code
      Spotlight Student Article

      As a Girls Who Code 2017 Summer Immersion Program Spotlight Student, I wrote an article!

      GWC Website Article
    • Kode with Klossy
      Accepted Application Video

      This was my Kode with Klossy Application Video!

      Website