Kerem Unal
“Everyone was like a shooting star with their uniqueness. Speaking different languages didn’t even become a barrier. Actually, it added more color to this community, and I think these different colors made this environment more special.”
Natalia Rosales
“YYGS taught me that the solution is within us as a society and that we have the key to solve every problem.”
Karthik Iyer
“I learned about a variety of STEM advances in biology, chemistry, physics, computer science, and many more. The lectures gave us the opportunity to understand what topics the professors and students at Yale were researching, and the seminars allowed us to take a wide variety of interesting classes. My favorite lectures were ones given by Professor Brian Scassellati on social robots and their potential for the future and Professor Sandy Chang on telomeres and cancer.”
Lila Min Oranchak
“My favorite lecture was Professor Shelly Kagan’s lecture about the Trolly Problem. I was even fortunate enough to have been selected for a Special Meal with him. I found this lecture the most thought-provoking. I was captivated while trying to find a compromise to the unanswerable riddle, and often still question if there is a plausible solution. I especially liked how Professor Kagan made it relevant by updating the trolley with an electric car [scenario].”
Owen Tan
“I am forever thankful for the lifelong friends I made from all over the world, and Yale Young Global Scholars, for creating an environment that served as a creative outlet for me.”
Soon after graduating ASE, I became team captain of my robotics team and began mentoring a younger team throughout their competition season. As of now, we are in the middle of the competition season, and I hope we can do as well as we did last year, where we qualified and competed at World Championships in Detroit.
Chanya Thanglerdsumpan
“When I was applying, I wanted to challenge myself so I applied for a session topic that I have never really submerged myself into: Frontiers of Science and Technology (FST). By throwing myself into this unknown among hundreds of other bright, young minds, I ended up learning so many new valuable things that I wouldn’t be able to learn anywhere else in a such a unique and warm environment.”
Omotoyosi Abu
“Before YYGS, I always wanted to help others, but I never believed that my small contributions could seriously alleviate global challenges. Now I know that I have the capacity and desire to incur deep-seated and everlasting impacts on the world that fundamentally improves the lives of others.”
Samvitti Sharma
“I loved attending the lectures, as it helped me gain exposure to innovative and groundbreaking research currently being done in a number of disciplines linked to biology. It’s difficult to pick my favorite lecture, but I found the lecture by Professor Duffy about his research on how musical exercises can be used to improve nurse training incredibly interesting. It taught me that we should not view subjects in isolation, as the most meaningful results often come from the interaction of two dissimilar fields of knowledge.”
Madeline Liu
“The group excursion to the Great Wall of China changed my whole YYGS experience. I met my closest friends and strengthened our friendship during those two weeks.”
In the past few years, I have identified a problem revolving around the increasing number of ethnic minority children coming from underprivileged families in Hong Kong. Due to the lack of sufficient learning resources, these children are often behind in their academic studies. As a response, I have launched two service initiatives targetting ethnic minority children and families.
Lauren Barnes
“As a biology fanatic, my favorite lecture was the “Aging and Cancer: The Telomere Connection” presented by Dr. Sandy Chang. I was fascinated about the prospect of cancer and aging research with telomeres, especially since the enzyme that rebuilds telomeres, telomerase, was discovered at Yale with the Immortal HeLa cells in the 1990s.”
