The Educational Justice Institute 2024‑Present

TEJI's goal is to improve the quality of life and future prospects of the incarcerated through education, while simultaneously raising the social consciousness of MIT students. To this end, TEJI offers a diverse selection of courses that cover a wide range of topics. I volunteer as a Teaching Assistant for the Introduction to Game Design course, where we cover basic programming skills using PyGame, GameMaker, and Unity game design softwares, empowering students in their computer skills while contributing to their career-readiness via interactive learning.

US Figure Skating Competitor & Coach 2024‑Present

Skating since she was 7 years old, Sabina has competed nationally and internationally in freeskate, showcase, synchronized skating, and theatre on ice. She now focuses on learning how to empower the next generation of figure skaters and students alike to pursue their interests in STEM and figure skating through fun and healthy ways. While recreationally skating and competing herself, Sabina currently teach new skaters through Learn to Skate USA.

Coaching Certifications

• 2024 USFS Coach Core Certification
• 2024 USFS Coach I.C.E
• 2024 Learn to Skate USA Instructor Certification

• 2024 National Theatre On Ice Competition - Imagica of Boston, Adult (3rd)
• 2023 National Theatre On Ice Competition - Imagica of Boston, Adult (4th)
• 2015 Helen M. McLoraine Figure Skating Scholarship - $8000 [ Article ]
• 2014 Senior Freeskate Skating Test - Passed
• 2013 Midwestern and Pacific Coast Synchronized Skating Sectional Championships - Novice (1st)
• 2011 Senior Moves in the Field Skating Test - Passed
• 2011 Chinese Taipei National Figure Skating Championships - Novice (1st) [ Article ]
• 2009 and 2010 Pasadena Open Championships - Jacqueline S. Haak Memorial Trophy, awarded to the "most outstanding performance of the competition" by the judges

MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute 2019‑2020

As the Lead Instructor and Curriculum Creator for the RACECAR Middle School program, I developed and taught a month-long summer curriculum that introduces students to the basics of programming, computer vision, and robotics for autonomous vehicles. I taught the pilot Summer '19 and Fall '19 school-year programs, weekend outreach events, as well as the Winter '20 educator's training session for local teachers looking to incorporate more hands-on learning into their classes. This curriculum was developed as part of the MIT BeaverWorks Summer Institute, which aims to develop project-based courses to improve engineering education worldwide.

Papers

• A Hands-on Middle-School Robotics Software Program at MIT; Sabina Chen, Andrew Fishberg, Eyassu Shimelis, Joel Grimm, Scott van Broekhoven, Robert Shin, Sertac Karaman; ISEC 2020.
  [ PDF ] [ IEEE ] [ Video ] [ Website ] [ Code ]
• "Boston-area girls discover a passion for coding" Dorothy Ryan | Lincoln Laboratory; December 2019; MIT News.
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• "Beaver Works Summer Institute concludes its fourth year" Anne McGovern | Lincoln Laboratory; August 2019; MIT News.
  [ Article ]

MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 2017‑2020

Throughout my time at MIT, I have assisted in several courses as both a Teaching Assistant (TA) and as a Lab Assistant (LA). My responsibilities consisted of testing and creating lab assignments, leading lab sessions, as well as hosting office hours for students.

Courses TA / LA'd

• 6.141 Robotics Science and Systems (LA - Spring 2019, TA - Spring 2020)
       [ 2019 Article ] [ 2020 Article ]
• 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming (LA - Fall 2018)
• 6.004 Computation Structures (LA - Spring 2018)
• 6.01 Introduction to EECS via Robotics (LA - Spring 2017)

Arcadia Unified School District 2009‑2015

I was a Peer Tutor throughout both middle school and high school. After classes, I tutored other students in various subjects, such as mathematics, English, history, science, and computer science, by reviewing topics learned in class and providing general homework help.