Youth@NKCSWX
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Theme: The Meaning of Choice

This event occurred on
October 1, 2021
Wuxi, Jiangsu
China

Our theme is “meaning of choice”, it means that every single choice we made has its own meaning and reason of why we choose that. It is not imperative and meaningful to focus on what we choose but why we choose this. Why do you choose to buy the similar product but not the others? Why do people choose to become teacher instead become someone they could easily be? Why do some people give up their life and choose to sacrifice themselves currently? And we shall seek the connotations behind each choice and how we make our decision wisely. Excavating the meaning and significance behind each choice teaches how people think and how people make their decision. Addressing problems and share ideas that influence how people think, how people perceive things from greater aspects. During progression, you shall meet a variety of people from many different careers, maybe business man, teachers, artists, doctors and even down to students. It is the opportunity for you to reveal their unknown “secrets” in each wise decision throughout their life and evaluate how the meaning of choices affect us, physically and mentally, in our lives. How it affects who you be in the near future; how it influences you significantly in every moment. In this event, we are not just looking for choices, but we are aiming to exposes the importance behind each choice and let every single idea being shared through decisions making.

TEDxYouth@NKCSWX
188 Qingyuan Road, Jingkai District, Wuxi
Auditorium in Nanwai King's College School
Wuxi, Jiangsu, 214000
China
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Speakers

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Fiona You

Head of Finance and Administration of Nanwai King’s College School Wuxi
Fiona You graduated from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom in 2003 with a master degree in education. After working in the UK for four years, she returned to her hometown of Wuxi to work as a lecturer at the School of Foreign Students at Jiangnan University. A year later she left to join Dipont Education, becoming responsible for the international curriculum centre at Wuxi No. 1 Middle School in 2008. Currently, Fiona is responsible for finance and administration at Nanwai King’s College School Wuxi. Fiona is also a qualified college counseling teacher, accredited by the University of California, Los Angeles, supporting many students through course choices and college applications. She has visited many universities in different countries and participated in various industry conferences at home and abroad.

Lily Yu

G11 student at NKCSWX
Lily, an IB student in grade 11 in NKCS. When she was a 14-year-old girl, she went to international boarding school in New York by herself. One year later, she transferred to NKCS due the covid-19. The experience that she underwent within studying abroad taught her how to be independent, overcame the difficulties, which understood deeply the meaning of choice. She has a friendly and outgoing personality, with wide range of interests such as dancing, piano, tennis, choir, painting, basketball, and calligraphy. Dancing is one of the most persistent hobby she had, got Chinese traditional dancing certificate in level 10, as well as participating in many dancing competitions and performances. She loves public speaking, actively participated in speech competitions in and outside during the primary and secondary school.

Olivia Zhang

G10 student at NKCSWX
“Be resilient, be proactive.” As the 2021 full scholarship winner, a leader of the school’s poverty relief project, and NSDA campus ambassador, this 15-year-old girl at Nanwai King’s College School always serves this as her greatest motto. Her incredible enthusiasm in original oratory has helped her win the national champion in 2021’s TOC tournament following by tons of awards in NSDA. Who knows that behind these glorious achievements, she had suffered years from the “toxic pressure “and was even once unable to get rid of depression? In her speech, Olivia’s going to talk about how the small-fish-big-pond effect blocks her way of self-pursuit and how we can transform the toxic pressure brought by it into something benign.

Rain Shen

G10 student at NKCSWX
Rain is a grade 10 student from Nanwai King's College School. He is passionate to share the experience he had about learning new language, and how is the factor “Grit” helped him in language learning and further studies. He wants to convey that “Grit” can be an imperative motivator in terms of studies, but also a great passion about life.

Shahid Anwar

Teacher of Mathematics at NKCS
shahid Anwar is a teacher of Mathematics at NKCS China. He has been involved in the field of education for more than a decade. He did his Master’s in Space Science from University of Punjab Pakistan and Post Graduate Certificate in Education from University of Sunderland, UK. He did not stop and is currently pursuing his Master’s in teaching mathematics from University of Waterloo, Canada. Shahid is a lifelong learner. After coming to China in 2012, he was deeply impressed by the Chinese language and culture. He taught himself Chinese and took part in several Chinese competitions for foreigners organized by TV and social platforms. In 2017, He won a video competition with the title “life of foreigners in Wuxi”. Shahid is originally from Pakistan, but he considers himself as an international citizen. His curiosity to learn about different cultures and people has made him travel to over 40 countries from the grasslands of New Zealand to the desserts of Africa.

Sherry Yuan

Teaching Assistant in NKCS
Sherry is a teaching assistant in NKCS, what is not average about her is her struggle in improving herself. She likes English but her college entrance exam score wasn’t good enough for her to major in English. However, she didn’t give up, in the university, she kept studying English and when she graduated, she worked as an English teacher in Web International English and WSE for 7 years. For the recent three years, she has focused on public speaking. After taking part in the competition twice, she decided to organize her own public speaking workshop, which helps other to improve public speaking skills. She chose the continuous struggle instead of lying flat. She failed many times, but she always stands up. If you are like her, she will tell you how she deals with different choices and never gives in to defeat.

Simon Ye

Regional Scientific Marketing Lead,Great Asia By integrating lenses of molecular nutrition, culinary arts, and social entrepreneurship, Simon brings unique insight to improve human health and quality of life. As a self-trained chef, his passion and innovative cooking demos won him an offer from Mugaritz, a 2-Michellin starred restaurant in Spain. He is now serving as the Regional Scientific Marketing Lead at IFF Health (Greater Asia) and the Chair of membership and service at International Chinese Nutrition Young Scholar Network. Simon is committed to deliver supportive and non-judgmental culture to the nutrition community, where everyone with various background could freely grow.

Xiaoning Lyu

Founder of Viva la Vida.

Yuan Piye

An interesting person

Organizing team

Leo
Li

wuxi, China
Organizer

Bunny
Wang

Co-organizer
  • Alina Yin
    Partnerships/Sponsorship
  • Jerry Duan
    Marketing/Communications
  • Phoebus Shi
    Curation
  • Xin Chen
    Post production