The Chinook Curiosity Central Team of 2026
Curious. Aspiring. Motivators. Every year, the Chinook Curiosity Central team strives to inspire curiosity into the local community. We are not geniuses (but we hope you are). We are simply curious, and we want to imbue that quality into you. Because curiosity has taken us very far.We are high-achieving students who found opportunities to pursue our true interests. Being curious is not an automatic ticket to success, although most successful people stay curious for all their lives.
Meet the Exec. Team!
At Chinook Curiosity Central, we host math and STEM competitions designed to spark curiosity and inspire the youth in our community.Our initiatives are free, fun and interactive events that encourage creativity and critical thinking. We believe in providing a supportive and engaging environment where young individuals can explore their interests and develop essential skills for their future.
Maru Park:
Executive
Aurelia Fry:
Senior Executive
Maru is a Grade 11 student who attends Western Canada High School and has competed in math contests such as the AMC, CSMC, and CLMC. He is a big fan of Snoopy from Peanuts and buys clothes, pens, and stickers with Snoopy on them. In his free time, he enjoys playing games, collecting Pokemon cards and stationary, and playing music.
Aurelia is a Grade 12 student with a big passion for math and the wonders of the universe. As an Executive of the CCC, she's excited to share and bring math into the lives of many! She loves school and is a high achieving student in Western Canada. In addition, she has won numerous medals in cross country and track and field with her passion for competing and running. She also loves volleyball and coming up with theories in which the galaxy and universe works.
Jimmy Yuan:
Executive
Jimmy likes math. He really likes math. (Most specifically Number Theory of course.) He envisions fractals within the darkened forest, hearing the oscillation of waves besides the torrential creek. "A mind forever wondering through seas of thought..."
Khloe Chang:
Asst. Lead Executive
Haohan Wu:
Senior Executive
Khloe is a Grade 12 student who loves competing in math and challenging herself and others with higher level math! She is a homeschooler and is very excited to help advertise and plan with the CCC as an executive. She has been participating and still is participating in math contests for several years now! In her free time, she likes watching anime and listening to music.
Haohan is an enthusiastic mathematician that hopes to share his interest in mathematics with others. In his free time, he enjoys working on CS projects and is an avid reader.
Silvana Sabzevari:
Lead Executive
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Silvana is an accomplished mathematician who has won Distinctions in several Math competitions. She has gotten 1st place in her division for running competitions like the FONA 5KM, the French Run 5KM, and Melissa's Road Race 10KM and has a 2nd Degree Black belt in Taekwondo. She does competitive speech and bilingual debate, and has even competed at French Debate Nationals. She is proud to have fundraised $1500 in the Calgary Marathon Charity Challenge, where she raised money for the CMHA and BBBS Charities while training for her first 21.1KM in May. Silvana not only won the award for the Top Youth Individual Fundraiser, but her team also won the #1 Youth Team for the Calgary Marathon Charity Challenge. Additionally, Silvana is super competitive on the track and on the field, and when she’s not demolishing hurdles, she loves to sing and play the flute. She is a proud Co-Author of the Poisonous Pages of Magical Help and was a featured poet in the Stroll of Poets festival by the Alberta Writers Guild. When she's not drowning in IB, she loves encouraging growth and learning in her community and hopes to help other students find a passion and love for what they're doing. This is her third year as an Executive.
Ian is a grade 10 AP Math student going to Ernest Manning High School. Some of his hobbies include playing the piano, which is something he's been doing for 8 years now, and hitting the gym, since he is passionate about staying active and healthy. He's competed in a lot of math competitions in the past, mostly the ones by Waterloo, so he has decent experience with solving problems and numbers. As an executive, he hopes to be able to learn new things about math, become more creative while creating his own questions, and also be able to make some new friends!
Ian Chang:
Executive
Grace Chang:
Executive
Grace Chang is a current IB Math student in Western Canada High School. She is most interested in functions and calculus, so far as she can see the logic builds step by step rather than focusing on calculating the final answer. She hopes to meet many students who enjoy thinking through math and she can’t wait to encourage many of you!
Karsten is a Grade 10 student who loves to do math and math contests. He has participated in math contests for a few years and enjoys doing them. He's excited to help people and spread math around Calgary as an executive of the CCC. He likes playing games and listening to music in his free time!
Karsten Chang:
Executive
Samuel is a 15 year old grade 10 student who likes to play many sports such as volleyball, basketball, and Taekwondo. He enjoys listening to music without giving much thought to anything else. Math is something he learned to enjoy as he grew up as he became fascinated by its diversity and came to appreciate it more in his daily life.
Samuel Song:
Executive
Isaac Lam is a Grade 11 student looking forward to teaching and helping others. Particularly, he has an interest in coding, physics, and engineering as a whole. He prefers to support people from behind the scenes but always strives to do what he can to help.
