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- Diocesan Boys’ School Robotics Team Captain — 2017-2018
- Children’s Medical Foundation Youth Ambassadors Society Diocesan Boys’ School Chapter Founding President — 2017-2018
- TEDxYouth@HongKong Speaker — 2016-2017
- Hong Kong Physics Olympiad, First Honour — 2016-2017
- Princeton University Physics Competition, Relativistic Electrodynamics Silver Medal — 2016-2017
As a junior secondary student, I stumbled upon a book about a man whose biography stunned me as a typical confused teenage high-achiever, clueless about what I was to do with life. He was a man from South Africa who went against the odds to pursue his aspiration of saving humanity; A man of few words, of a withdrawn personality, who went on to become the leader of multiple R&D companies that continue to impress the world with outlandish achievements.
Reading his biography was a turning point of my life. It was then that I realised how the activities I had been doing could all come together for me to delve into the field of technology. Musk made me seriously think about life in the long term. Since then, I have been actively pursuing my goal by learning and doing all I can that are related to science and engineering: robotics, physics, mathematics and coding. From the physics and coding Olympiads, I have learnt important skills and concepts that can apply in robotics, and hopefully in the future, engineering. A dream of mine is to work on space exploration and hopefully help with expanding our living habitat — only hard work can take me there.
Some would say that I am an agonisingly boring person as I am not one for movies and games, but I find entertainment and satisfaction in my fields of passion. Not many things feel better than when you set up a differential equation that you can actually solve! Feynman was right, you know. When I am tinkering with and programming robots, I also tend not to get sleepy, which does happen when I am studying… Jokes apart, this is why I can tell that this is what I want to do for life.
I am literally an “ABC” — American-born Chinese (but Cantonese is my preferred language in daily life anyway, amusingly to some). This implies that, as well as being called “鬼佬” all day long, I have also been exposed to contrasting cultures, both of which I have taken inspiration from: The academic rigour of the Chinese; the freedom and individualism of the West — and these are central to the makeup of my character. I have my dream and the motivation to pursue it. To me, having the dream is just as important as, if not more important than, maintaining academic achievements. Keeping up with academic work is but a responsibility, and one has to go further than that to be outstanding.
Since I can remember, I have been an active critic of how society, especially in Hong Kong, provides plenty of academic pressure but lacks inspiration for teenagers; it frustrates me every time I see my friends work hard at studying for public examinations but being unable to speak of their dreams, and I cannot tell whether they actually do not know, are afraid of fighting the social norm of chasing money, or are simply too hesitant to share what they want. It might sound cliché, but it is true: when we die we are definitely not going to say, “Aw, I regret not making more money.”
I am honoured to be a past speaker at the TEDxYouth@HongKong talk, where I shared my experience of building my school’s robotics team with my peers, as well as the under-appreciation of engineers’ contributions especially in Hong Kong. I still remember. However, the vital message of the speech was neither about robots nor engineers; I wished to encourage fellow youths in attendance to look at the greater picture of what they actually can and want to do with their life.
Being outstanding entails caring about society and not just one’s own benefits. Serving is unavoidable if one were to feel truly satisfied and that is why I am also dedicated to, aside from my personal interests, regularly contributing to children in our world, whom I feel most responsible towards. Hopefully I have made and will make differences, significant or trivial, in their lives by working as a teacher assistant and in the Children’s Medical Foundation Youth Ambassador Society.[/vc_column_text][tek_button button_text=”Back” button_style=”tt_primary_button” button_color_scheme=”btn_primary_color” button_hover_state=”” button_icon_bool=”no” button_action=”button-action-link” button_link=”url:http%3A%2F%2F159.89.198.89%2Fyoutharch-web%2Fpast-awardees%2F|||” button_position=”button-center”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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- 拔萃男書院機械人隊隊長 — 2017-2018
- 兒童醫健基金會青年大使拔萃男書院創辦主席 — 2017-2018
- TEDxYouth@Hong Kong 演講者 — 2016-2017
- 香港物理奧林匹克一等獎 — 2016-2017
- 普林斯頓大學物理競賽相對電動力學亞軍 — 2016-2017
讀初中的時候，年少無知的我偶然閱讀了一位美國企業家的傳記。他出身於南非，雖然沒有「贏在起跑線」的機會，卻力爭上游，追求自己改變世界的夢想。他沈默寡言，卻移民到美國開辦多間創科企業，達到輝煌的成就，震撼世界。
那本書改變了我對生命的看法。在這之前，我在學校參加的活動都因一時的興趣，坐這山望那山，根本不知目標何在；正是馬斯克讓我思考自己人生的意義，積極追尋自己的夢想——從此，我集中參與許多與科學及數學有關的活動，如物理及編程奧林匹克及機械人隊，好讓我在不久將來可以在工程創科方面，運用現在學到的知識技巧。我的夢想，就是致力於太空探索及發展、擴展人類的居住帶。雖然離地，但學校一位良師益友經常鼓勵我：「飛機成功飛起前都無人信我哋可以飛㗎。」
由於我對電影、玩樂都沒甚興趣，很多朋友都說我不善交際，但難道製作機械人和鑽研物理不是娛樂嗎？正如當我解開自己所寫的一條物理微分方程時，或是自己編程的機械人終於在地上滾動，那份滿足感簡直不能與平常事相比呢。
作為中美混血兒，除了日常生活經常被手足們稱為「鬼仔」、「鬼佬」之外，我從小已經受到中西文化的耳濡目染，學到中華文化勤奮讀書、中庸之道，以及西方的個人主義、自由思想。我的性格成為兩國文化的寫照，令我能夠發憤圖強追求自己的夢想。我經常跟朋友說，讀好書是本份，但做到「傑出」就必須深明自己每天上學讀書的意義，不應做社會期望的傀儡。
家人經常笑道我在小學時已經不怕批評社會，包括對學生施予太多壓力、太少啟發，令人對生命感到迷茫。一個學生說不出自己的夢想，究竟是因為沒有想過，不敢違反社會對一個年輕人的評分標準，還是對自己太沒信心？潮語有著這麼一句話：「一個人無夢想同條鹹魚有咩分別？」雖然老土，卻字字千金。
中四那一年，我很榮幸獲得機會與機械人隊的好拍檔一起在TEDxYouth@HongKong這個一年一度的盛事中，分享我們在學校逐步建立機械人隊的經驗，以及在香港普遍對工程師的誤解。我很希望能夠帶動其他年輕人思考多些，看遠一點，不要輕視自己的潛能。
「傑出就是付出」——這是我在香港傑出學生選舉中最大的得著。沒有付出，就 不能得到真正的滿足。我對小孩子特別有使命感，所以會騰空時間服務他們，希望通過做音樂助教及在兒童醫健基金會的工作，為弱勢兒童的生活帶來些微的改變。[/vc_column_text][tek_button button_text=”返回” button_style=”tt_primary_button” button_color_scheme=”btn_primary_color” button_hover_state=”” button_icon_bool=”no” button_action=”button-action-link” button_link=”url:http%3A%2F%2F159.89.198.89%2Fyoutharch-web%2Fzh-hant%2Fpast-awardees%2F|||” button_position=”button-center”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]