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The Newsletter of NEHS 111年第 27卷第 6期 實中園地

An Evening of

Journeys Taking Off at

TEDxYouth@IBSH

Background:
TEDx is a grassroots initiative, created in the spirit of TED’s overall mission to research and discover “ideas
worth spreading.” TEDx brings the spirit of TED to local communities around the globe through TEDx events.
TEDxYouth@IBSH is an independently organized event at the International Bilingual School of Hsinchu Science Park
and our premier TEDx event that's hosted every year by the youth of IBSH and sponsored by GLO. It is a series of all
English talks given by speakers from around Taiwan.

Purpose:
With the advent of globalization as well as innovation in the 21st century, it is now more important than ever
to embrace diversity, especially at IBSH and the Hsinchu Science Park, where we both take pride in our social and
technological developments. This year, we hope to help students become well-informed citizens, envision a better
future, and create their own legacy. We aspire to be a platform for talks that are compelling, provocative, and powerful.
Our event theme, inspired by the spread of knowledge, focuses on the journeys taken across time and space.

Spreader backgrounds:
This year, the TEDxYouth@IBSH curator team was honored to invite three spreaders each dedicated to upbringing
and empowerment in their field of work: Ms. Michelle Kuo, Mr. Zuo-Ren Chen, and Mr. Marc Cheng to share their
stories with the TEDxYouth@IBSH community. While their backgrounds varied, they shared the common theme of our
event: assent, empowering, and advancing others.
Ms. Michelle Kuo is a teacher, lawyer, writer, and passionate advocate of prison education. She has taught English
at an alternative school for kids who were expelled from other schools in rural Arkansas, located in the Mississippi
Delta, which was a formative time that would shape her memoir Reading With Patrick. While at Harvard Law School,
she received the National Clinical Association's award for her advocacy of children with special needs. Later, as a
lawyer for undocumented immigrants in Oakland, Kuo helped tenants facing evictions, workers stiffed out of their
wages, and families facing deportation. Kuo has also volunteered at a detention center in south Texas, helping families
apply for asylum, and taught courses at San Quentin Prison.
Mr. Zuo-Ren Chen, a graduate student researcher pursuing a master's degree in Power Mechanical Engineering
at NTHU, takes on manifold research and development roles in the S.T.E.M. field. Chen has worked on projects and
collaborated with student teams spanning mechatronics and control systems in rocketry, automobiles (NTHU Racing),
robotics (DIT robotics), and intelligent consumer electronics (NTHU Edorm). Among his accomplishments, Chen’s
work at the Advanced Rocket Research Center (ARRC) of NYCU developing avionics and navigation systems has seen
success with the recent launch of the HTTP-3A S2 mission in July 2022, marking a significant milestone for hybrid
rocket technology in Taiwan.
Mr. Marc Cheng was recruited as executive director of the European Union Center in Taiwan (EUTW) in October
2010. The EUTW, co-funded by the EU, is a consortium of 7 universities in Taiwan led by NTU to facilitate EU-Taiwan
exchanges. Before he joined the EUTW, Cheng was the deputy director of Research at the foundation on Asia-Pacific
Peace Studies (APS), a prominent think tank based in Taipei. In 2010, Cheng was selected as a Taiwan participant in
East-West Center New Generation Seminar (NGS) in Honolulu, Hawaii. In 2006, he stayed at the Henry Stimson Center
in Washington DC as a visiting fellow. Cheng has over twenty years of working experience in think tanks and research
institutes and is fluent in both English and French.

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