My Reflections
I wrote a short reflection post every week while I was in ZheJiang. Read it all here!
Learn moreI spent 4 months on a summer exchange to ZheJiang University to attend a special curriculum and to take part in a project mentored by Dr Zhang KeJun
While in ZheJiang, I was sponsored by Temasek Foundation under the International LEaRN Scholarship. One of the requirements of the scholarship was to do some form of overseas community work. We decided on helping out at HuShu School, a special needs day school that takes care of children up until age 20. We visited the school on four separate occasions organising activities such as teaching students different dances for physical education, teaching the younger students origami and paper plane folding, and painting and making cloth bowties with the older students.
Overall, it was a great learning experience to be able to work with special needs children, to be able to see and understand their mentality and behaviour from a first hand perspective.
Most of the courses that we participated in revolved around the principles of a design focused mindset, how to understand your target audience and to consider how they would view your product. We also had the opportunity to visit different company headquarters and tour the campus. We visited companies like HuaWei and Alibaba, and got the chance to talk to their employees about their work and their lives.
It wasn't all fun and games though, my group worked on a eBook reader while we were in ZheJiang, and it was entered into a nation wide competition. Read about it here!
I wrote a short reflection post every week while I was in ZheJiang. Read it all here!
Learn moreMy ASEAN Leadership Programme group took turns to detail our journey as a group every week. Read that here!