Over the last 8 months I have been working on co-founding a for-profit social enterprise in Singapore called Terrabite (latin translation: EarthBite). TerraBite (terrabite.co) aims to combat the use of single-use-plastics in the Singaporean F&B industry by providing local businesses with affordable biodegradable alternatives, ensuring the upmost consideration for ethics and sustainability throughout the entirety of our supply chain. Today, we offer 100% wooden spoons, forks and knives, biodegradable take away containers, salad bowls, soup containers […]
Teaching In Laos 2019 – Life Changing Experience
I have just returned from what has turned out to be the 7 most humbling, eye opening and meaningful days of my life. It is difficult for me to translate my emotions and self-growth into words simliar to my other experiences. Looking back at everything I have involved myself in over the past few years, this experience has taken it to the next level by pushing me outside of the protection of UWC or Singapore. […]
Management and Technology Summer Institute 2019
This summer I attended the Management and Technology Summer Institute (M&TSI) at the University of Pennsylvania. My interest in the program was a result of a spontaneous admiration of the M&T coordinated dual degree UPenn offers. The program combines business entrepreneurship and engineering in a pre-professional fashion that sets you up to thrive in the growing tech-markets. I applied very late as I only discovered the summer program when my mum brought it up at […]
Internship with Jungle Ventures – 2019
For the past 2 weeks I have been sharing a desk with David Gowdey, a senior partner at a leading venture capital firm in Singapore, Jungle Ventures (Jungle VC). My weeks at Jungle VC has been extremely strenuous and demanding, however, on the finishing end of the experience it has proven to be meaningful, insightful and good preparation for the university course I will be attending later this summer (Management & Technology Summer Institute Upenn). […]
TGELF Conference India 2018 – An Enlightening Experience
You may remember reading about my LIFE Competition experience early this year, in short, I entered a sustainable development competition with a group of friends where we designed an energy generating wagon for Rohingya migrants. Our idea and presentation carried us to second place with honourable mention in the competition. As runners up we did not receive the grand prize of $10,000 funding for our project, however, we were provided tickets to the 2018 Global […]
Kenya Outdoor Education Trip – 2018
My trip to Kenya was an experience very few are lucky enough to enjoy, especially in 9th grade. Throughout the 2 week outdoor adventure camp I was tested physically, socially and mentally. Also, I am the first person in my family to go to Africa, I opened my eyes to a part of the world I have very little primary knowledge about and saw a side to life where material belongings do not determine the […]
SEAMC – Competitive Math Training
I have just finished a 1.5 year competitive math training course for the South East Asia Math Competition (SEAMC). It has been an amazing and very different experience for me, something that I have not been apart of before and a community that I had never before embraced and mingled with. At first I was selected for the course by the head of mathematics for the middle school along with 6 other students from my […]
CBL 2017 – Season 2
I am extremely proud to announce that My team and I have won the Community basketball league U16 Division 1 for the first time. I have participated in the community basketball league (CBL) ever since I moved to Singapore. The CBL is the most competitive and highest level basketball league within Singapore. Within my time playing in the CBL I have played as a part of 2 teams, first for a small team call the […]
Life Competition 2017
The Life Competition (TLC) is a program run by The Global Education and Leadership Foundation (TGELF) in which teams from international school around Singapore develop solutions in the form of a product, champaign or program that addresses one of the United Nation sustainable development goals (UN SDG). By the end of the competition teams are expected to put together a booth consisting of videos, posters, prototypes and a speech that will advertise and propose their […]
Asia Pacific Basketball Competition – 2017
I was thrilled to be part of a team competing in the Asia pacific cup 2017 (APC). APC is an invitational basketball competition held in Singapore with teams from all around Asia and the pacific. In this 2017 competitions teams came from Bangkok, Vietnam, China, Korea, Japan, Philippines and Australia, making it the largest youth basketball competition in Asia. I played as a part of the U16 Proform Basketball club during this tournament and we […]
Tech Life 2017 – Is There A Limit To Technological Advancement
1:00am, nothing. 2:30am, nothing and tired. 3:00am done. This is the unexaggerated story of my night before the 2017 Tech Life conference .Tech Life is a conference for all students around Singapore, both local and international, and it functions around the idea of “For students, From students”. This ideology is primarily addressing the student board that works throughout the year to prepare and organise the conference, however it also refers to the selective group of […]
Singapore International Science Camp 2017
The Singapore International Science Camp (SISC) is a selective summer program that aims to introduce an exclusive group, of high achieving teens, to the future of technological science. The camp that took place primarily at the National University of Singapore(NUS), was 5 days long and fostered around 25 students that flew in from India, China, Japan and Korea. Unlike the other 24 pupils, I was a day student, this meant that I attend […]
It’s Me Winston Shyan Nesfield
Hello! My name is Shyan and I am pleased you have taken the time to explore this site. Here you will find an accumulation of posts that I haven chosen to share. Let me warn you before hand, I am passionate about science, especially the mind twisting idea, of the infinite space our universe exists in and exploring the laws it abides by. I also enjoy learning about technologies and the machines that are gonna […]
Thoughts on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ‘We should all be feminists’
Points Adichie makes on the meaning of the term ‘feminism’ and its relevance: She was first exposed to the word ‘feminist’ as an insult used against her The word ‘feminist’ is interpreted in many different ways Some of the differences are personal interpretations and others are cultural differences Feminism is often perceived as a ‘hate for men’ The biological difference in men and women are no longer significant as they were in our hunter gatherer […]
New York Times Youth Political Cartoon Competition – Analysis
In this cartoon we can see a grown man hitting a Juul, sitting next to a young boy, presumably his son, who has thrown aside his toys and is also smoking a Juul. The cartoon may be trying to highlight the way that vape products are being targeted towards younger kids, especially through enticing ads and product placement. This is reflected in the scene as the sign in the background advertising ‘pre-k registration’ is […]
The World’s Wife Overview – Carol Ann Duffy
The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy is a collection of poems that ironically alludes to well known stories from mythological tales, the Bible and pop culture, in a modern context. Duffy explores the expectation of men to be dominant and impermeable, and of women to be submissive and faithful, through a largely under represented female voice.
Carol Ann Duffy’s Thetis Analysis – Transformation
Reflection I am happy with my introduction. I kept the first sentence simple and informative, also I introduced the themes I would address throughout the essay with clarity and precision. Looking forward, I want to focus on being more detailed with the imagery I chose to un pack. I feel like I tried to cover too many different images in each paragraph which prevented me from going deep enough into all of them. For me, […]
English Mock IO Reflection
As a first attempt I am satisfied with my oral exploration, however, there is a lot I need to work on before my next attempt. Fluency and cohesion I am not so focused on as these things will come with practise and more intense planning. One big issue I faced was my timing, I was not able to visit all the points I had planned, more significantly, I did not have time to conclude my […]
Vintage Print Advert Analysis
Advertisements often reflect popular cultural norms of the time. There is a continuous effort by advertisers to stay relevant and appeal to a broad audience and therefore they often echo many aspects of society in their adverts. Vintage adverts can give us a vivid idea of life during a patriarchal era. This American advertisement from the 1940s promotes a popular fast food restaurant called Hardee’s. The advertisement is multimodal, however prominently visual. In the foreground […]
The Danger Of A Single Story – Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
Today we watched a TED talk by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie about the danger of a single story. Chimamanda begins with personal experiences and stories and how the single narrative of her own life shaped the way she wrote and told stories. She then moves on to a broader context and considers single stories that are told in mass media and literature and how these dictate cultural stereotypes Here are some other examples of visual […]