
Simon Youn
2025 Scholar
Simon Youn is a junior from Bergen County Technical High School. He is interested in circuits and specifically chip design. Over the summer, Simon went to MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute, where he got the opportunity to design and produce a 16-bit CPU and an accelerator for the Keccak -f1600 process. Simon also is president of Bergen Tech’s STEM Club, and co-founder and vice president of the non-profit STEM4All. Simon interns at The Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum of New Jersey, where he conducts research on over one-hundred year old aviation articles and interacts with guests. Simon has won and placed in multiple competitions as well, including TEAMs, placing 6th internationally; Seaperch, placing top three in the New Jersey/New York regional; the International Astronomy and Astrophysics Competition, receiving a Bronze Medal; and receiving a Gold Presidential Volunteer service award. In his free time, Simon enjoys biking, running, playing clarinet and saxophone, and playing video games, along with designing and testing different ASIC designs on FPGAs. In the future, Simon hopes that he can learn more about chip design, and make more progress in chip development.