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Guest Speaker
Mr Wally Tham
Mr Tham's company, Big Red Button, works on creating new experiences aimed at shifting people out of their fixed beliefs. He felt virtual reality would allow us to have a person visually locked into our narrative, with their body movements and eyes exploring the story, fully immersed. Thus, he hopes to create an experience that generates physical and emotional empathy among sighted individuals. He hopes that users will better consider their actions when interacting with the visually impaired and understand how something like leading a visually impaired person by their cane can actually disempower them.
Matthias Gelber
Matthias Gelber comes from Burbach-Lippe, a small German village surrounded by the forest. He developed a strong connection with nature from a young age, and has been a passionate advocate of green living ever since. In 2008, he was voted ‘Greenest Person on the Planet’ in an online competition by 3rdWhale in Canada. Matthias lives in Malaysia without a car and a monthly USD$10 electricity bill. He also started Eco Warriors Malaysia, a community movement focused on taking positive action to combat climate change.
(Source: Mr Matthias' website @ http://www.greenmanspeaks.com/ )
Human Library Speakers
Jun Feng
Jun Feng is a J2 from Hwa Chong Institution. Beside being part of the school’s green council, he participates passionately in wildlife-related activities, is currently heading an SL project to raise awareness about macaques, and is even a certified guide! His carefree and humorous sharing about his personal experiences and motivations will be sure to keep you entertained from start to end.
Jagoda
Jagoda is a student from National Junior College who, like many of us here, faced many setbacks when pushing out environmental initiatives, mainly struggling with recognition from the school. Despite this, she stands here today still pushing out various initiatives in her school such as making her school straw free, and is an active participant of many other environmental contributions outside. She is a highly motivated individual who will be sure to inspire you to start taking action too.
Jodie and Kimberly
Jodie and Kimberly are students from Methodist Girls’ School. As firm believers in the effectiveness of ground-up change, they started a Central Environment Representation Committee to empower others to take action. Do listen in at their sharing to find out more about their efforts, motivations, and what it was that inspired them to start their journey.
Terese
Terese is a student from Victoria Junior College who volunteers with Plastic-Lite SG. When starting out, she struggled with finding a direction when implementing green changes, causing her to feel uncertain and pessimistic, moments I’m sure many of us can relate to. Listen to her share about how she managed to brave through the storm to find renewed hope and enthusiasm in putting forth green initiatives.
Erin Gan, Tran Minh An, Estelle Lee, Regine Ng
This is a group of passionate students from St Joseph’s Institution who has worked together to encourage a greener school environment through efforts such as #strawfreesji. They will be sharing about the ups and downs of their journey and how we should learn from these experiences to fight for greener changes together with our school community.
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