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I am New Zealander of simple taste and I enjoy thinking and writing about the world. I am interested in transformative projects which have a steep gradient on the logistic function of innovation, and which combine knowledge from many areas.
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Henry Wang 
Dear Henry,
My name is Jenny and an ISES 2011 delegate. I was very impressed with your team’s presentation at ISES 2011 on sustainaville! In fact, I thought that the entire challenge would be a really effective learning tool for students interested in getting involved with sustainable development. Perhaps that is something I will share with my peers.
I didn’t get the chance to congratulate your team on the great work in person, but I wanted to say that I was very inspired by the energy and leadership that came out of that challenge and the conference as a whole.
I hope you don’t mind that I took the liberty of reading on what you had to say in this blog, I couldn’t help but comment that apart from being intrigued with your diverse interests, the point you made about taking an interdisciplinary approach to learning is exactly one of things we could do to solve the energy problem. Today, there’s a disconnect between different sectors of the economy and it is such disconnect that led to the challenge of getting information across from the scientific community to everyone else. One could argue that no one has the capacity to grasp every information out there, but I see this ‘apathy’ largely as a result of the reductionist nature in our education system that has shaped us in thinking that way. Coming from a science background and having an interest in innovating education as a student, I can say that the disintegration of most university programs is leading to lack of interest in school for a lot of students, and also limiting our capacity to be curious and to put what we learn in perspective. (also check out sir ken robinson’s tedtalk)
We (UBC and other Canadian schools) will be holding an “Interuniversity Conference on Innovating Education” this fall that would hopefully make room for discussion and exchange of feedbacks between educators and students to take place.
There goes my 2 cents. Hope you enjoyed the conference and Vancouver.
All the best to you on your journey!
-Jenny Gao
Thanks a lot Jenny. The conference was wonderful and really broadened my knowledge of issues within the energy industry. It was fun to do the challenge and be mixed up with diverse teammates.
I did the IB in high school and have always held a belief that one should be well rounded and have diverse interests as well as work to better mankind. Seeing General Fusion’s technology I am really inspired to look into the commercialisation of cutting edge tech.