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Kate Wang 🐦‍🔥

@skate_wang2005

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Former Team USA ⛸ Youth Olympic🥈
Marine Biology & Statistics ‘27 @ucsc 🌊👩🏻‍🔬
@ucleads & Koret Scholar
I make parodies 👇

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📊 STEM meets figure skating! ⛸️ 💖

💎 Thanks @skate_wang2005 for sharing this gem with us!

➡️ From Kate: Torque is essentially the “force” needed to get an object to rotate. It’s given by an object’s moment of inertia multiplied by its angular acceleration. If an object’s moment of inertia (distribution of mass) changes, the rotational acceleration must change to compensate.

⚖️ This is why we rotate slower with our mass distributed far away from us (open air position) and rotate much faster when the mass is distributed close to the axis of rotation (pulled in).

Very cool!! 😊

#stemlesson #stemSkating #physicsSkating #physics #figureSkating #siliconValleyIceSkating

Follow @siliconvalleyiceskating for more ways to support keeping our rinks alive 💖⛸️ by @skate_wang2005

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Still can’t believe I got to sit down and talk to the legend himself @stephencurry30 🐐‼️Truly an incredible experience being part of his new show “Level Up”. Shoutout to @arowanafilms and the rest of the team for making filming a blast. Go check out all the episodes on Snapchat! 🆙
Thank you to all my friends, coaches, family, and supporters who have helped me get to where I am today 🙏
#levelup #snapchat by @skate_wang2005

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Youth Olympic silver medalist!🥈Thanks to my family, coaches and friends for helping me along the way. This was a once-in-a-lifetime experience that I will never forget! So grateful that I got to represent Team USA here in Lausanne!
#lausanne2020 #figureskating #youtholympics #switzerland
@harlickskatingboots @jeffrey_crandell taken in Lausanne, Switzerland by @skate_wang2005

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7 years ago

Driving 8 hours to and from a symposium on the day before fall quarter? Why yes! 🪸

Thank you to the Scripps Student Symposium organizers and presenters! Super cool to hear from astronaut Dr. Megan McArthur for our keynote.

Also peep the coral kicks hehe
#research #scripps #symposium #stem #science taken in Scripps Seaside Forum by @skate_wang2005

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The number of banana slugs each of us spotted while the Navier-Stokes equations were being solved:
Kate - 5
Mom - 1
Dad - 0
#redwoods #onceaslugalwaysaslug #ilovelivingincalifornia taken in Samuel P. Taylor State Park by @skate_wang2005

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I’ve now made 10 nerdy passion projects, so I thought I’d take a trip down parody lane. Many thanks to all who have been part of these productions over the years!
1. “Statistics”, AKA the one that started it all. #apstatistics
#parody #math #youtube

2. “Graph the Night”, AKA the one I sound the worst in but hey at least there’s a drone involved (thanks @jmo.joshing!!). MATH 11A #calculus #derivatives

3. “I Integrate”, AKA the one that was sent to the entire UCSC math department (thanks Pedro). MATH 11B #calculus #integration

4. “Gen Chem”, AKA the one where I really started going ham on visual effects. CHEM 3 series #chemistry

5. “u Belongs in V”, AKA a Japan travel vlog. MATH 21 #linearalgebra

6. “Using the Laws of Motion”, AKA the one whose filming process was the most fun. PHYS 6A #physics #kinematics

7. “Level Sets”, AKA the one with fire transitions but the most awkward lyrics. MATH 23 series #vectorcalculus

8. “Last Christmas (I Gave You My Cells)”, AKA @kyrazion11 ‘s extra credit final project for BIOE 20B #physiologyanddevelopment

9. “Dealing with Solar”, AKA the one I filmed while my glasses were broken. BIOE 20B #physiologyanddevelopment

10. “Epsilon and Delta”, AKA the one I filmed a year after taking the hardest class in my life. MATH 105A #realanalysis by @skate_wang2005

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Kinda chic to go through 30,000 coral reef points @ucleads #sandiego #summer #research #coral #ucsd taken in Scripps Institute of Oceanography by @skate_wang2005

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2 months ago

UC Santa Cruz undergrad Kate Wang (Crown ’27, marine biology) spent most of her life on ice. She started figure skating at 4 years old and eventually went to the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics where she placed 13th in the world.

Now a second-year marine biology student minoring in statistics, Kate spends much of her time by the water. She’s working towards an eventual Ph.D. to become a researcher or a teacher — because being able to teach is one of her superpowers.

In addition to being a full-time student, Kate is also a successful content creator on YouTube. She started making educational mathematics music videos based on complex equations in high school, making AP statistics more fun and understandable. She’s made videos based on Dua Lipa and Lady Gaga songs, reaching hundreds of thousands of views.

Oh, and she’s also made a video with NBA basketball player Steph Curry for Snapchat.

We can’t wait to see what’s next. Read more of Kate’s story at our link in bio.

#ucsc #ucsantacruz #BaskinEngineering #HighImpactScience by @skate_wang2005

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2 years ago

Oh look, it’s the thing I did for PHYS 6A
#figureskating #2A taken in Yerba Buena Ice Skating and Bowling Center by @skate_wang2005

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4 months ago

👋 ✨ Meet Kate Wang, a third-year @ucsc marine biology major whose research journey started with a flyer that promised free pizza…

One afternoon, Kate opened an email from her department with news of a mixer event put on by CORE (a student organization for grad students in ocean sciences), where graduate student researchers would be looking to recruit undergraduate assistants. She decided to skip her tutoring session to get that free pizza—and a good decision it was!

There, she networked, met her mentor, and ultimately landed her role in the Lam Lab. Now, Kate contributes to important research tasks in the lab … instead of just reading about Antarctic phytoplankton, she’s the one growing the cultures and studying how they use iron to survive.

During her first year of research, Kate has experienced many highlights, including being awarded the Kathryn D. Sullivan Research Impact Award and receiving the 2026 Koret Scholarship. She also attended her first research conference and presented her work.

"Learning what it is like to embody a researcher as a woman in STEM has been eye-opening,” she says.

Kate’s ultimate goal? Becoming a professor so she can research and teach at the same time! But first– she will spend next summer doing research at the @ucsandiego @scripps_ocean institute and plans to attend grad school after she completes her B.S.

We’re stoked to continue following @skatewang2005 on her inspiring journey! 🌊🔬⛸️ 🥳

Photos by Christine La Kate Wang smiles at the camera while standing at a laboratory workstation. She is surrounded by scientific supplies, including pipettes, storage bins, and stacked white buckets, showcasing a bright and active research environment at UC Santa Cruz. taken in UC Santa Cruz by @skate_wang2005

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7 months ago

So grateful to have been able to present at the 2026 UC LEADS Symposium! Got to see glowing worms during the lab tour 🪱 Thank you staff & organizers and everyone in my cohort! See you next year at UC Riverside 😙
#ucleads #symposium #research #womeninstem taken in UCSF William J. Rutter Center by @skate_wang2005

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7 months ago

Happy world ice skating day
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#athlete #skate #iceskate #figureskating #花样滑冰 #patinartistico #patinageartistique #iceskater
📸: @leekin_photo by @skate_wang2005

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