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. […]
Category: Extra-Curricular
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
UWCSEA ATLs Grade 9 Half Term – Reflection
I am not a strong proponent of the UWC ATL system. I believe that although in some cases teachers are able to make an accurate assumption of how a student is working within each area of the ATL system, self-manager, communicator and collaborator, which a child can reflect upon and improve. Alternatively, teachers can degrade a students image by mis-interpreting there intentions during a class. Furthermore, a lot of collaboration, communication and management for a […]
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 […]