David Kim, a second-year medical student in the Vancouver Fraser Medical Program, was awarded a 2014 3M National Student Fellowship.
The 3M National Student Fellowship honours up to ten full-time undergraduate college and undergraduate university students at Canadian institutions who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in their lives and at their college or university.
Kim was recognized for his local and global community involvements. He founded UBC Students Offering Support with fellow students, raising more than $50,000 in the past four years. Using the funds they raised, Kim went to Nicaragua to help build an elementary school.
Kim was the Chief Operating Officer of the World Model United Nations Conference in 2012, which brought together over 2,300 student leaders from 70 countries across the globe to Vancouver. During the weeklong conference, Kim and his team inspired leaders around the world to implement positive changes in their respective communities through discourse and calls to action.
In addition, Kim was elected to serve as one of the directors of the UBC Alma Mater Society, volunteered as a piano instructor for marginalized youth, conducts research at the UBC Department of Urologic Sciences, and teaches taekwondo in the community with proceeds going towards charities.