Annie Shan

Annie Shan is a high school senior at BASIS Independent Brooklyn and the co-founder of Mindset Math, a youth-led nonprofit reimagining how students learn STEM. She has led projects at the intersection of AI and education, including MathVoyagers, a generative AI–powered platform created with a learning scientist at the Concord Consortium to support collaborative problem-solving and competition-style math. Shan has also conducted academic research on how elementary school students use AI to design creative board games and imagine equitable futures for their communities, and her team’s work was recently featured at the 2025 MIT AI & Education Summit. Passionate about expanding AI literacy as an essential skill for student success in a rapidly evolving world, Shan hopes to integrate it more deeply into the way young people learn. She aspires to pursue careers in teaching, educational policy, and nonprofit leadership.