Theme: Ascent: Journeys Taking Off

TEDxYouth@IBSH is an evening event from 5 P.M. to 7 P.M. at the International Bilingual School at Hsinchu Science Park. We are a non-profit organization with the goal of bringing together bright minds to give an all-English talk that offers unique perspectives, inspires action, and sparks conversations for the future.

TEDxYouth@IBSH is our premier TEDx event, entirely organized by the youth of IBSH. 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.

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 Hsinchu Science Park, where we both take pride in our social and technological developments.

So, how do we become more worldly and open to change for the better? What do activism, engineering, and politics have to do with embracing multiculturalism and developing personal growth? How do we increase student engagement in local communities to enhance our surroundings?

At this year's TEDxYouth@IBSH, we expect to find out!

International Biligual School at Hsinchu Science Park
300 Jieshou Rd.
Hsinchu City, Hsinchu, 300
Taiwan

Marc Cheng

Executive Director of EU Centre in Taiwan (EUTW)

Marc Cheng was recruited as executive director of the European Union Centre 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 joins the Centre, he was the deputy director of Research at the foundation on Asia-Pacific Peace Studies (APS), a prominent think tank based in Taipei. In 2010, he 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. He has over twenty years of working experience in think tanks and research institutes. He speaks both fluent English and French.

Michelle Kuo

Teacher, Lawyer, Writer, Social Advocate, and Author of Reading With Patrick

Michelle Kuo is a teacher, lawyer, writer, social advocate, and author of Reading With Patrick, which visits themes of racism against and education for incarcerated youths. Kuo has taught English at an alternative school for kids who were expelled from other schools in rural Arkansas, located in the Mississippi Delta. While at Harvard Law School, Kuo 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, as well as families facing deportation through work with RAICES. She has also volunteered at a detention center in south Texas, helping families apply for asylum, and taught courses at San Quentin Prison. As a current visiting professor of the NTU law program in Taiwan, Kuo continues to write through multiple media outlets and advocate on behalf of incarcerated clients.

Zuo Ren Chen

Mechanical Engineer

As a graduate student pursuing a master's degree in Power Mechanical Engineering at NTHU, Zuo-Ren Chen takes on manifold research and development roles within the S.T.E.M. fields. Chen worked on projects and collaborated with student teams spanning mechatronics and control systems in rocketry, automobiles (NTHU Racing), robotics (DIT robotics), and consumer electronics (NTHU Edorm). In 2020, he had a placement in Renault DP World F1 Team and Nissan Technical Centre Europe as the INFINITI Engineering Academy 2019 Asia & Oceania winner. Among his works, Chen’s research at the Advanced Rocket Research Center (ARRC) of NYCU developing avionics, navigation systems, and management has seen success with the launch of the HTTP-3A S2 First Flight Test in July 2022. ARRC’s world-leading hybrid rocket technology continues to pave the way for the future of launch vehicle development in Taiwan.