Buyun Jiang
I am currently conducting research partnering with my school to investigate the effect of disparity between the parents’ and the parachute kids’ expectations of autonomy on their communication experience.
Pallavi Rao
I recently completed a community service project called “Totes for Hope,” where I provided bags to wheelchair-bound residents in local nursing homes. Many people do not realize that many patients do not have places on their wheelchair to hold personal items. The bags would make life a little easier for such patients by providing a convenient way to hold items as they focus on their health. I raised money through my Go Fund Me and also collaborated with local tailors in India to create the bags to help boost the local economy in the less wealthy parts of India.
Jessica Zhu
Soon after returning from YYGS, I co-founded the International Youth Political Forum with several other high-school students interested in international relations, including many PLE III alumni. We officially launch on September 1st, and we are currently writing 10-12 articles every week to post on our website. These pieces discuss various global conflicts or events from the perspectives of the different countries involved to help students see multiple sides to the same issue and to facilitate discussion and compromise.
Joanna Fan
Post-YYGS, I decided to apply what I learned about perseverance and passion in the scientific field to a web application project that helps students record their club minutes in a more organized and efficient manner. Based in a full-stack-style python framework called Flask, this project contains many intense hours of planning, coding, and Googling for syntax. Along with Flask, I am utilizing html templates, javascript, and css.
Ana Julia Venancio
After YYGS, I decided that we must encourage public school students to pursue summer programs in other countries - not only in Brazil or in the USA. In order to do that, I am already talking to my school about planning lectures, talks and informational sessions about YYGS and all the other programs we have around the globe. By doing that, we open scholars’ horizons and help them creating a bigger pool of opportunities for their future.
Allie Ho
At home, I’m sure most of you can relate to the fact that everyone seems to conform to the standards of the society set upon us, so we get this sense of self-deprivation from our true personalities, quirks, and differences. At Yale, however, we’re all coming together from different parts of the world with no pre-conception of what culture we’re supposed to assimilate to, so immediately, we’ve created a new culture where people are free to be themselves, show their quirks, and celebrate their differences.
Kezheng Li
It’s the after curfew philosophical talks, the Sunday morning run, hearing new ideas and new perspectives every day. It’s taking closer looks at 800-year-old gold-gilded manuscripts, walking around Yale’s campus during family time. Everything was like new ground for anyone with an endlessly curious mind to fulfill and adapt their vision, which I found fascinating.
Rosia Li
Hearing fellow YYGS students’ views and experiences was enlightening and empowering. Even though we were from different corners of our world, it was evident that we are all ‘global citizens’ that all have the drive and the potential to shape our world in the years to come for the better. I loved spending time with all the amazing people I met at YYGS; I will treasure the friendships made and the time shared forever.
Prabhjyot Singh Sodhi
After the program ended, I wrote a small article on my experience at YYGS for our school newspaper, “The Global Times.” My article was selected among many other student submissions and will be printed in the September month edition. Also, I further enhanced my Capstone Project on Cyber Security of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks and prepared a research paper and submitted it for the Scopus Indexed Journal. My experience at Yale Young Global Scholar was awesome and unforgettable.
Diego Cárdenas
One of the reasons I decided to apply to SDSE was to return to Mexico with a project idea that could aid my community, since my country lacks of efforts to tackle this issue. In YYGS, our simulation team came up with an extraordinary proposal to mitigate the effects of climate change. I decided to apply a similar idea into my high school. In a general overview, the initiative is a machine that is able to transform organic waste into fertilizer. Since this process releases methane, this gas is transformed by the same machine into natural gas.
