Theme: A Call for Hope

TEDxYouth@IBSH is our premier TEDx event, entirely organized by the youth of IBSH in our third year of programming. We aspire to be a platform for talks that are exciting, provocative, inspiring, sensational, powerful, and compelling. Our event theme focuses on fostering a community of hope. Students nowadays may face learned helplessness, stress towards their academic future, anxiety towards global issues. This year, we hope to help students become well-informed citizens, envision a better future, increase active engagement, and create their legacy.

So how do you turn emotions into impact on your local community? What do space and music have to do with achieving your goals, much less to each other? How do we increase student engagement and opportunity in the college admissions process while focusing on our mental health? Are we on the cusp of a new generation of ways to make money, empower minorities, and create social impact?

At this year's TEDxYouth@IBSH, we expect to find out.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark in-depth discussion. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event.

International Biligual School at Hsinchu Science Park
300 Jieshou Rd.
Hsinchu City, Hsinchu, 300
Taiwan

An-Che Teng

Former STEP officer

An-Che is an IBSH graduate of the Class of 2018. She has been organizing teaching programs and afterschool activities for six years, including three as the Vice President of STEP, an IBSH club founded in 2015 that teaches English to local elementary students. As a current junior at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, she studies Psychology, Music, and Service-Learning. An-Che continues to work closely with children as the Supervisor of Fort River Elementary in the Boltwood Project, a service-learning program based in UMass, as well as the Director of Family Outreach of Hearts over Hands, a growing virtual non-profit that matches university mentors to children in need of support. As an avid neurodiversity advocate, she serves to contribute to an inclusive environment where both children and adults realize the full potential of compassion, acceptance, and empathy.

Candace Chen

Social Enterprise Entrepreneur + Founder of Fluv and Pink Matter

Candace is a Taiwanese American serial entrepreneur. She founded Pink Matter, a dragon fruit juice company in LA, after working at PepsiCo as an operations manager. The healthy and pink juice got extremely popular in the social media world, influencers and celebrities such as the Kardashian family and Lana Del Ray have had it and loved it! You could find the juice at natural food markets, grocery stores, fitness studios across Southern California. The company doubled its size and was sold within 1.5 years. After selling the company and finishing a women's entrepreneurship program at Cornell, Candace decided to move back to Taiwan to build another startup, Fluv, to solve Taiwan’s stray animal and pet care problems using technology and sharing economy.

Claire Kuo

Former STEP officer

Claire is an IBSH graduate of the Class of 2018. During her time there, she spent three years as the Secretary and Treasurer of STEP (Student Teaching English Program), an IBSH club founded in 2015 that holds English camps for local elementary students across Taiwan. Since IBSH, she has gone on to Columbia University where she studies Creative Writing and Political Science as a current junior. However, her (sometimes much more meaningful) obligations outside of class continue to be intricately tied with education and children. Her experience ranges from volunteering to teach in prison with the Petey Greene program to co- directing the Symposium Taiwan Pilot, a cross-cultural education program. In the future, she hopes to continue working in such a capacity and further integrate community building/service into her life.

Exodus Sit

Transmedia Astronomer

Exodus CL Sit actively promotes dark-sky protection and popular science as the national coordinator and delegate of International Astronomical Union, International Dark-sky Association, Astronomers Without Borders and Aurora Association. In 2017, Exodus started social innovation on STEAM Education from being the Chairperson of HKUST Astronomy Club. Currently as the Vice-President of Starrix, Exodus also becomes a guest speaker of the Hong Kong Space Museum to organize public lectures. By integrating Science and Arts, Exodus discovered their consonance on harmony. He has traveled to 40 countries (5 continents) for inspiration of Astro-Music Composition. As the founder of “1-minute Astronomy'' channel, he acts as “ASTROMAN” to share his experience on stargazing etiquette and night-sky photography through multimedia. In 2019, Exodus achieved the breakthrough of “The First Cantonese Song to Edge of Space” through a weather balloon.

Fiona Wu

Founder of Beyond Taiwan

Fiona is a sophomore at Vanderbilt University, an aspiring psychiatrist, and the founder of Beyond Taiwan, a nonprofit striving to make unconventional college options accessible for public high school students by providing institutional knowledge transfer, mentorship, and a welcoming community. As a relatively recent college applicant and a mentor of current ones, she experienced and witnessed the admission process's adverse effects on students first-hand. She is determined to tackle the issue by advocating for mental health de-stigmatization and inducing systematic change among both institutions and applicants, which aligns with her lifelong goal of helping adolescents affected by mental illnesses.