/ 毕业生·2024/
这个夏天，启明星2024届高中毕业生离开校园，奔向属于自己的道路。在老师们眼中，他们是很“整齐”的一届——学术表现都很优秀，做事可靠，有鲜明的个性，但接人待物待间不失礼貌。
篇幅有限，在《毕业生》栏目，我们将介绍其中的两位，但其他学生像这两位少年一样卓越，是启明星的代表。
我们会想念他们，也祝福他们！
王浩宇（Alvin Wang）
5年级从美国回国，加入启明星
收获帝国理工学院、伦敦大学学院、加州大学圣地亚哥分校、尔湾分校等知名学府的生物工程或生物技术专业录取通知书
申请大学—>参加IB考试—>毕业—>休息—>负笈远行……准备出国留学的12年级学生的生活大都是这样。
可是，Alvin的有点儿不一样。
准备IB大考的同时，他重启了2022年的VFC项目（力求改变的创业），而且，拿到大学录取通知书后，这项工作也没停下。
他没有像大多数12年级学生那样，恨不得快快结束现在的学习和生活，扑向全新的世界，而是和伙伴们一起，重拾起一件在他看来完成的还不够完美的工作，继续打磨。
专注
VFC是启明星特有的社会创新项目的一部分，培养学生的社会创新能力。
Alvin小组的VFC项目是设计并制作一款环保咖啡杯，卖给餐厅或是咖啡馆。制作杯子的材料是甘蔗渣，每个杯子上印着专有的编号，这样，使用杯子的人不但为可持续发展做出了贡献，还能了解到自己位于这个项目队列的哪个位置，非常有趣！根据学校的评估标准，咖啡杯项目拿到银牌奖。
咖啡杯设计图
SUMMER
重启项目之后，Alvin和同学一起，继续联系厂家安排生产，也在探索更大的销路。他说，未来有做商业项目的打算，继续VFC是事先的演练。
为做商业项目演练，Alvin一直在尝试。从7年级开始，他尝试过建立教授数学的网站、开发服装品牌、设计珠宝……虽然因为经验不足屡屡失败，但他从没停下尝试，也不羞于谈论受挫的经历。
10年级暑假，Alvin也参加了学校的实习项目，在一家高端餐厅实习。尽管餐饮行业并不是他未来想要从事的，但是根据他后来的反思不难看出，他还是在和市场品牌团队的工作中学到了很多。
不因阶段性目标的完成而暂停前进的脚步，也不因失利而丧失尝试的兴趣，心中总有明确坚持的方向和终身向学的动力，在Alvin这个年纪的少年身上，难能可贵。
“Alvin对自己想要做的事情很专注，也非常投入。”大学升学顾问主任Melissa Meltzer Warehall说。
Alvin也专注于自己的专业方向。或许源于家庭的影响，他喜欢生物工程和生物技术，于是敢于在申请大学时挑战这些特别有难度的专业。
而拿到一把好offer之后，他也能据此做出果断而冷静的选择——放弃帝国理工而选择加州大学圣地亚哥分校：“虽然帝国理工的确更有名，但加州大学圣地亚哥分校的生物工程特别强！”
爱好
被老师形容为“学术能力非常强”的Alvin，也拥有广泛的爱好和对丰富生活的强烈追求之心。
“我喜欢文学，喜欢苏轼，如果不选择生物专业，我会去学文学，当作家。”Alvin说。中学教了他3年的Peters老师给了自己很大启发，让他体会并拥有了写作的乐趣和信心。
Alvin也喜欢全球旅行、登山徒步，6、7年级时和同学去露营探洞的经历让他记忆犹新；他还健身、练习Keep，开始为马上就要开始的独立生活学习做饭。他说，就连夹在汉堡里的酱也是自己亲手配置的——低卡、高蛋白！
有时候，Alvin的积极主动也让人印象深刻。11年级暑假，Alvin和同学们去泰国做CAS服务项目，无论是被当地人邀请一起唱歌，还是用泰语对话，用当地的方法生火做饭，他总是那个敢于第一个尝试的人！
Alvin尽管是5年级回国才加入启明星，但启明星的土壤暗合了他个人的气质，也符合了他的家庭对理想教育的期待。更重要的是，启明星包容的双语双文化环境，支持他逐步实现中英双语能力卓越，欣赏两种语言文化的丰富和多彩，并从中汲取营养！
于是，在启明星的日子里，Alvin始终能够继续按照自己的方向生长、盛放，并最终成为一位——用大家的话来说——有着都市灵魂，但对万物都包容、开放的少年！
/ Graduates · 2024 /
This summer, the 2024 high school graduates of Daystar left school and embarked on their own journeys. In the eyes of their teachers, they are a generation of students with consistent performance – their academic achievement is excellent, they are reliable, they have great ideas and unique personalities, and they are polite and gracious.
Due to limited space in the Graduates column, we can only introduce two of them. However, all seven of our other graduates, like these two teenagers, are outstanding and represent Daystar well. We will miss all of them!
Alvin Wang (王浩宇)
Entered Daystar in 5th grade, after living in the US for five and a half years.
Alvin received offers of admission from several renowned universities, includingImperial College London, University College London, University of California, Irvine, and University of California, San Diego.
He plans to studybioengineering or biotechnology.
For typical Daystar Grade 12 students who will study abroad, a normal year consists solely of:
Applying to universities ->
Taking the IB exams ->
Graduating ->
Taking a break->
then preparing to leave China to study...
However, Alvin's life during his final year of high school was a bit different.
For example, while preparing for his IB exams, he restarted his 2022 VFC (Venture for Change) company. Moreover, even after receiving offers of admission, he did not drop this project in favor of other priorities. Instead, he continued to pursue his passion.
Most 12th graders wish to quickly end their high school life, and rush into a new world, but not Alvin. Instead, he continued working on the incomplete project that he’d had to drop due to time constraints, and strived to complete and perfect it with the classmates who were his founding partners.
Alvin’s Focus
As an integral part of Daystar's unique Social Innovation Program, VFC fosters students' abilities to help solve societal problems and practice their entrepreneurial skills.
Alvin's VFC project is to design and manufacture an eco-friendly coffee cup, and then sell these cups to restaurants and cafes. The cups are made of bagasse, which is a byproduct of the sugarcane and sorghum manufacturing processes, thus utilizing material that would otherwise be discarded. Because of Alvin’s idea for each cup to be printed with a unique number, people using these cups not only contribute to sustainable development, but also know where they are in the project queue. How interesting!
Design of the Cup
SUMMER
After restarting the VFC, Alvin and his classmates continued to contact manufacturers to arrange production and explored sales channels. Alvin said that in the future, he has plans to do commercial projects, so continuing the VFC exemplifies Alvin’s passion for business.
Alvin has been experimenting with commercial endeavors throughout his life at Daystar. Since 7th grade, he tried his hand at setting up a website to teach math, developing a clothing brand, designing jewelry, and other initiatives. Although he suffered consecutive failures due to inexperience, he never stopped trying, and he was not shy to talk about his frustrations.
During summer vacation of 10th grade, he participated in the school's internship program when he interned with the marketing department of a high-end restaurant. He was placed based on his interests in business, and, though the catering industry is not what he wants to pursue in the future, according to his later reflections, he learned a lot from his work with the Marketing and Branding team.
“Alvin is very focused on what he wants to do, and also puts a lot of effort into pursing a variety of interests,” said Melissa Meltzer Warehall, the Head of College Counseling.
In Alvin's heart, he has a strong compulsion to persist and a lifelong motivation to learn. He does not get discouraged by disappointments, nor does he lose interest in trying when he encounters setbacks. This quality is rare in a teenager.
Alvin is excited about studying challenging majors. Perhaps influenced by his family, he likes bioengineering and biotechnology, so he dares to pursue these particularly demanding disciplines for his university studies.
After receiving several excellent offers, he chose where to enroll based on a reasoned analysis. In choosing the University of California, San Diego, instead of the more prestigious Imperial College London or the University College London, Alvin said, “Although Imperial College London is indeed more famous, biotechnology at University of California, San Diego is particularly outstanding!”
Strengths
Alvin, who is described by his teachers as “academically very strong”, also has a wide range of hobbies and a strong desire to live an enriching life.
“I also like literature, and I like Su Shi. If I didn’t choose to major in biology, I would study literature and become a writer,” Alvin said. He said Mr. Peters, his English teacher who taught him for three years in secondary school, gave him a lot of inspiration as well as the joy and confidence to write.
Alvin also enjoys traveling around the world, mountaineering and hiking. He remembers vividly his experiences camping and exploring caves with his classmates in 6th and 7th grades . He also works out regularly, does exercise in the Keep fitness app, and has started learning how to cook for his upcoming independent life. He said that even the sauce sandwiched in his hamburger was made by him, and was low in calorie, but high in protein!
Alvin’s eagerness is impressive. During 11th grade, Alvin and his classmates went to Thailand to do a CAS service project. When they were invited to sing by the locals, tried to have a conversation in Thai, or cooked over a fire using the local method, he was always the first one who dared to try!
Although Alvin joined Daystar late, after he returned to China in the middle of 5th grade, it is evident that the soil of Daystar perfectly matches his personal temperament as well as his family's expectations for an ideal education. More importantly, the inclusive bilingual and bicultural environment of Daystar Academy supported him to achieve excellent Chinese and English bilingual abilities, and to appreciate the richness and diversity of the two languages and cultures.
Therefore during his days at Daystar, he has continued to grow up and bloom in his own direction, eventually maturing into a teenager who, in everyone's words, has an urban soul, and is open to all experiences!
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