Defining your own Education

Date: 7 October 2015 (Wednesday)
Time: 6:00pm-7:00pm
Venue: LTF
Title: Defining your own Education
Speaker: Miss Michelle Sun, Founder & CEO, First Code Academy

Abstract:

From an upbringing in Hong Kong conventional local education system to entrepreneurship, Michelle shares her journey navigating a set environment to a creative, career path that aims to impact students around Asia. At the same time, the talk highlights the need for digital literacy in kids in this generation; instead of being consumers of technology, young children should be empowered to be creators. She shares how through teaching coding and entrepreneurship to primary and secondary school students, First Code Academy creates opportunities for young children to express themselves through computer science and engineering. The sharing also includes tips to undergraduates on thinking about their career path and how to define their own path.

Bio of Speaker:

Michelle Sun is the CEO and cofounder of First Code Academy, a leading education institute based in Hong Kong that teaches coding to kids at ages 6 and above. Prior to starting First Code, she held various technical roles in high growth startups in Silicon Valley, including as the first growth hacker at Buffer and Bump Technologies (acquired by Google in 2013). Born and raised in Hong Kong, she graduated from University of Chicago and began her career at Goldman Sachs as an equity analyst.