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Chicago is an exciting and vibrant city—but it has a relatively small Asian American community.

technology. He may have felt lonely and different sometimes, but he didn’t let that get in the way of his learning. Chen finished elementary school and middle school, and then he applied to the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy as a sophomore in high school. This school is very selective; not everyone who applies is able to get in. Chen was one of the lucky few. The academy was a boarding school, which meant Chen needed to move away from home to attend. He stayed at the academy from the time he was thirteen until he was seventeen and graduated. His school encouraged its students to explore their interests and allowed them to study whatever they liked for one day a week. “The great thing about it was that it was one of the first schools that was

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