BFB Peer Mentors

 Grant Wang is currently a freshman at MIT. He is one of the BFB Peer Mentors. He is the founder and former president of AYLUS Greater Buffalo, a youth community service organization committed to helping the Greater Buffalo Area. AYLUS Williamsville has over 60 members, has fundraised over $5,000, has organized 200+ volunteer activities, and has collaborated with 20+ non-profit organizations. Grant has received two gold President's Volunteer Service Award medals, as well as a Hershey Heartwarming Young Heroes Grant for his work with refugees, and he has been tutoring refugees and kids with special needs since 2020. He was a graduate of BFB’s Mental Health Ambassadors program, and he also won the NFJC Social Justice Youth Empowerment Competition in August 2022.

He represented the United States at the 2022 and 2023 International Linguistics Olympiad and at the 2024 International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence, winning a silver medal in 2023 and a bronze medal in 2024. He was also a Regeneron STS Top 40 Finalist for his research project, building an AI model that can detect offensive language in 100 different languages. Last but not least, he is a member of the MIT varsity tennis team.