ACES
World-Class Competitions & Internships for Building University Applications.
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30+ COUNTRIES.
Competitors at ACES come from over 30 different countries around the world across 5 continents.
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3+ COMPETITIONS
Join up to 3 large-scale, international ACES competitions in addition to our pitch and debate tournaments.
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$40M+ INTERNSHIPS
ACES members receive guaranteed offers to $40M+ investment funds, medical research institutions, and tech startups.
OUR ALUMNI
ACES alumni have continued to find success through acceptances & associations with top universities and courses in the world.
ACES (Advanced Curriculums for Educational Studies) is an international educational institution focused on inspiring generations of students in Business and STEM through international competitions, internships, scholarships, and opportunities to build university applications on an Ivy-League level.
WORLD-CLASS SPEAKERS
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James Defauw
Fortune 500 Managing Consultant at McKinsey & Company
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Gunjan Paliwal
MS at MIT, Advisory at Harvard Business Review, Product at Meta
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Tony Le
Former UCLA College Admissions Reader, CEO at Egel Loc
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Vinod Goje
Vice President at Bank of America, former Tech Lead at Infosys
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Josh Jia
Lecturer at Princeton & Wharton, Investment Banker at BMO
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Guy-V. Jourdan
Professor at University of Ottawa, CEO of Decision Academic
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Vedant Lnu
Founding Engineer at $150 Million Startup Spotnana, formerly at AT&T
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Kaustubh Prabhakar
Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI on ChatGPT project
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Praveen Gujar
Director of Product at LinkedIn, former Product Lead at Twitter & Huawei
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Arry Pandher
Head of Marketing & Growth at GrantMe, National TD Scholar
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Verena Kantere
Associate Professor at University of Ottawa
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Kunvar Chokshi
Former TechLead at Apple, Engineer at NVIDIA and Tesla
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Ryan Xie
CEO of Ground Robotics, Former SE at Canvas, MS
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Nurzhan Nogerbek
Top UK Engineer Lead at Nomios, Former Stock Exchange SE
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Xipu Li
Co-Founder & CTO at Forget, Software Engineer at Amazon
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Het Mistry
Top Data Science Voice on LinkedIn, Business Analyst at NFCU
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Nikunj Kotecha
Lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University, SE at Brainchip & Oracle
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Weining Qian
Product Manager at TikTok & Ebay, MS at New York University
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Jean-Gabriel Gaudreault
Professor at Collège La Cité
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Santhosh K. Gopal
Board of Directors at CMG, Senior Advisor at CVS Health
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Viacheslav Shago
TechLead at Sberbank, former Software Engineer at Drimmi
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Sanjana Kandi
SE at NVIDIA, Carnegie Mellon University
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Asmaa Hailane
Researcher at National Institute of Standards & Technology
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Sameet Sonawane
Senior Data Scientist at Toshiba, Mentor at MIT
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Jason Wu
Deep Learning/ML Compiler Engineer at Apple
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Ryan Haraki
VP of Tech at UBC Blockchain, Product Manager at Google
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Kaustubh Baskaran
Venture Analyst at Catalyst XL and Futuraiser
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Abdul Sajid Mohammed
PhD, Senior SE at Microsoft
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Nicolas Znamenski
Cybersecurity Consultant at IBM, Former SE at Global Affairs
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Abhilash B. S.
Site Reliability at TikTok, MS from University of Southern California
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Seojoon Oh
Product Manager at Uber, University of Chicago MBA
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Ishaan Agerwal
PM at Square & Microsoft, MS from Brown University
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Ehsan Nazari
Researcher at University of Ottawa and Tehran Polytechnic
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Zoey Jin
Product Manager at Blizzard, Diablo Franchise, former PhD
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Tebogo Chaka
Google Facilitator, DT Coach at University of Cape Town
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Yifan Zou
Senior Engineer at Bilibili, TechLead at Dream Voyage, MS
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Sukanya Moorthy
Former Software Engineer at Yahoo, Machine Learning at Credit Karma
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Aditi Godbole
Top AI Voice on LinkedIn, Data Scientist at SAP and Nissan
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Letian Xu
Software Engineer at Google, former SDE at Meta & Amazon
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Madhur Singal
Founding Engineer at Spotnana, former Strategy SE at APT Portfolio
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Finys Cai
CEO of Marshmallow, former Consultant at Illinois Business Consulting
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Vidyasagar Ranganaboina
Co-Founder of Argentive, YC S23
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Xiaoyi Geng
Master’s in Business Analytics, former Analyst at Tiger Brokers & PwC
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Lohith Paripati
Senior Product Manager at Microsoft, Walmart, & Samsung
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Maxime Defauw
MEng at UC Berkeley, Software Engineer at Palantir
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David Yu
Trading Quant at PIMCO, former Quant Researcher at QMS Capital
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Siddharth Gupta
Director of Data Science at Coupang, Senior Manager at Meta
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Borna Shani
Director of Investments at Front Row Ventures, Venture Capitalist
World-Class Speakers and Judges Join us from Around The World at our International Events & Competitions.
INFO
OUR PARTNERS
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The University of Ottawa
As our partner in the Path to STEM Event, the University of Ottawa is one of the largest and most competitive universities in Canada, especially in tech programs.
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Wolfram Research
Founded by Stephen Wolfram since 1987, Wolram Research is n American multinational corporation focused on computational technology.
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InternHub
InternHub is an international community offering internship and volunteer opportunities for aspiring students with high academic aims.
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Prequel
Prequel’s business programs teaches students about Wall Street Investing & business processes with hands-on mentorship classes featuring world-class instructors.
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Canadian Investors Society
CYIS (The Canadian Young Investors Society) shares our vision in leading the next generation of Canadian investors, offering exclusive events and opportunities for Canadian students.
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Ground Robotics
Ground Robotics is a United States developer of Autonomous Utility Robots with aims of engineering sustainability and aesthetics for sport courses.
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CyberNova
CyberNova is a world-class tech & cybersecurity nonprofit building powerful opportunities, competitions, and communities for all students on a worldwide scale.
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GrantMe Education
As our partner in our University Events, GrantMe is an Education company aiming to help students build their academic futures and reach post secondary goals.
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Milky Way Studios
Milky Way Studios is a software development and design company operating in marketing, web and game development consulting, and UI/UX design.
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Interview Cake
As a partner in career development, Interview Cake is a leading interview preparation company landing applicants in Fortune 500 Companies.
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Admission Secrets
College Admission Secrets focuses on training and preparing students with the necessary knowledge in order to build a path to their post-secondary goals.
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The Olympiads School
The Olympiads School is a Canadian educational institution offering intensive extracurricular courses, competitions, and opportunities for academic students.
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The Trader
The Trader offers financial, business, and investing articles, content & publications to help individuals from all backgrounds to find success in their financial lives.
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AI Insurance Organization
AI Insurance Organization is an award-winning insurance brokerage in North America, offering consumer certainty to individuals and businesses alike.
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Jade
Jade is a Canadian research nonprofit from Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and McMaster founders dedicated to empowering the next generation of student researchers.
FAQs
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Yes. ACES Guest Speaker Events are FREE and ONLINE internationally for all students to participate in.
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ACES offers certifications to boost your resume and university applications. Certifications are problem solving oriented, being based on industry and university level skills and knowledge.
You may get certified after studying for and completing a certification exam, upon which you’ll receive a unique certification ID code and a digital certificate you may add to your linkedin or resume. Learn more via the Certifications page on the website.
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Events at ACES are online and accessible from anywhere around the world. You may sign up via Event Schedule on this site.
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During specific ACES Events and in our Discord Community, we offer insider information on university applications, extracurricular opportunities, and building careers. You’ll also learn technical knowledge, skills, and lessons from STEM and business careers. You may join events in the Event Schedule page and join our community in the Community Page.
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ACES includes a community for all students, featuring educational lectures relevant to both universities and high school students.
