Dr. Chen AI, Robotics & Programming

My son took the USACO training class with Dr. Zhu this summer (2021). It is a difficult subject; an experienced teacher is essnetial to get started. My son typically couldn't stay on task for more than an hour. With Dr. Zhu, we are delighted to see our son can focus for hours on programming and try different ways to solve problems. We appreciate Dr. Zhu's daily office hours and sharing of class materials. His dedication and passion to enable more kids to get into higher-level programming are evident. We feel very fortunate to have found his classes.

It was very helpful seminar to get to know USACO and computational thinking. Dr. Zhu is very knowledgeable, and experienced.

My son started taking USACO classes with Dr. Zhu a few months ago after the pandemic started. He absolutely loved Dr. Zhu's classes. He is a kid who's hard to focus for a long time, but surprisingly, he was extremely involved and fully engaged for 2 and half hours whenever he takes Dr. Zhu's classes. He's made tremendous progress during the past few months. Dr. Zhu is knowledgable, experienced, detail oriented, and he has a great sense of responsibility toward helping his student improve. After each session, he sent out detailed and personalized emails to every parent to update their child's progress, next steps, and recommendations. From his emails, you can feel the passion and sense of responsibility. Both my son and I feel very fortunate to have such a wonderful teacher!

I truly appropriate the special attention and encouragement Dr. Zhu has been providing to my son, a 5th grader, to whom the USACO coding is very challenging. But since my son liked it very much, Dr. Zhu worked closely with both the student and parents to make sure my son is not left behind. I am impressed that despite his struggles, my son stayed in the class, and obviously is getting better at what he is doing every day.  

I am impressed by Dr. Zhu's innovative curriculum and learning by doing pedagogy when my son took the Competitive USACO classes with Dr. Zhu. With a good understanding of his students and their needs, Dr. Zhu deliberately sparks student's genuine interests towards computational thinking and, at the same time, imparts the acquisition of solid coding and problem-solving skills. I highly recommend Dr. Zhu's classes.