About Philip Kuo
Philip Kuo is a senior high school student with innovative ideas and passionate dreams. He is highly interested in graphic designing, technology and filmmaking. He started to self-learn web-developing skills at an early age, and managed to create his own tech blog when in third grade. The blog gained more than 60 thousand page views from different users within 3 years. Philip Kuo launched his first personal website at the age of 9, followed by series of various contents websites.
After graduating from middle school, Philip spent one year in the US as an exchange student, becoming more independent, self-motivated, and innovative. While he had to deal with cultural shock and the language barrier, his passion was still burning, he received an Art Exhibition Award and a Filmmaking Recognition Award during that year.
Philip shared his personal experience in his blog “Phil’s America Exchange Year”, a blog about his daily life of his exchange year, which future students planning studying abroad may find helpful. He also developed a mobile app for a better blog reading experience on mobile phone.
Philip is a participant of many conferences such as Global Initiatives Symposium in Taiwan, he is also an active Model United Nations participant, or a “MUNer” as people call it. He recently formed a school wide broadcast news station in his current high school, hoping to provide students of the school and people outside the school an opportunity to know what’s happening in the school in the “most fun way possible”.
Earlier this year (2015), Philip was invited to speak on a TEDx event in Taichung. He talked about his experience as a foreign exchange student, and how he balanced school work and extracurricular activities. The video of his talk can be found on YouTube.
Being a student in Taiwan might be stressful, but his passion of fulfilling his dream makes everything possible. Just as the saying goes, “What the mind can conceive, humankind can achieve.”
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Worldwide view, Taiwan root
I was born and raised in Taiwan, a small Asian country. Having the opportunity to go to the US as an exchange student for a year, I know both Eastern and Western culture well. I can speak Mandarin Chinese and English pretty fluently, and I am currently learning Spanish. With that said, I am able to collaborate with people from all over the world. However, there is always only one goal in my mind when working with people, that is, to make them feel happy and satisfied.
I think globally
while acting locally
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