My Personal Learning – Page 3

November 21, 2016October 20, 2017

Impact Stroll Event

On the 20th November 2016, I joined an Impact Stroll Event, which is organized by Impact Hub. Basically, a group of people including myself and the other students are walking from place to place, to listen to different social enterprises. There are many social enterprises that I heard from, including Lucky Iron Fish, Amboh Espadrille, Chhlat (smart in Khmer), KamasK and so on. All of those social enterprises are not just generating money but also helping people: providing jobs and the need of people. It makes me think that business is not just generating money but also helping those who need help. It such a great time and experience to listen to all other those social enterprises. I hope to join it again next year.

November 7, 2016October 18, 2017

Barcamp ASEAN 2016

On the 5th and 6th November 2016, I joined Barcamp event at the Norton University. There are many different conferences, present by both foreigners and Cambodians. I had joined lots of discussions, some of them are fascinating, and some are very boring. The conferences that I joined are Introduction to JavaScript, Human Center Design, Customizing with Materialize, Image Processing, Creative in Technology and much more. It such an excellent time to participate in that event and get new experience and knowledge.

October 30, 2016October 18, 2017

Training for pitch (ImEx)

On the 23rd October 2016, I went to an event called Startup event at the Emerald+, Phnom Penh International University (PPIU). Basically, the event is about meeting with the Angel Investors and getting feedback from them about our startup project. My group LiGeek (ImEx), went there and we get lots of feedback about our project and the way that we can learn on how to run a business. As I got a lot of helpful advice from them, I felt like I need to get a step back to learn about how to run business first before I could run a bigger one. A guy named David told us that when he was eleven, he started to sell sweets at his school and that’s how he can learn how to run a business. He told us to sell something to learn about the business. The advice that he gave is strongly hit my soul because of it just a simple idea but have lots of effects.

October 24, 2016October 18, 2017

Beach Clean Up

On the 17th September 2016, I joined the Beach Clean Up event, which is one of the citizen science. Two of our students organized that event to clean Kep’s beach and we worked with MCC to do it. We cleaned two parts of the Kep’s beach, one is at the Chhok village and the other one is at the crab market. Every single trash that we collected, we have to record in our sheets so that we can put that information into the Ocean Conservancy website. Most of the trash that we collected are fishing net, styrofoam, shoes, plastic bags, batteries etc. It was a fantastic experience to be a part of this event, help to clean my country’s beach and be the role model for others.

October 23, 2016October 30, 2017

Human Rights Lesson (LGBT)

There was a guy who is my old teachers’ student and his name is Mariano. He came to talk to us about the rights of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender) people. He’s Argentinian and his country had a legal recognition for LGBT. There is only a few country around the world have that which means that not all the country in the world give rights to LGBT people. It was a new topic to me and it is pretty interesting to learn about human rights for certain type of people. The UN is trying to tell the world that those people are having the same rights as everyone which means they can get marriage, get health care and so on.