Trophy and medal from the Beijing Youth Go Tournament — Beijing Youth Go Tournament · second place

Beyond the Projects

Strategy, movement, and other ways to learn.

The rest of the week: Go boards and chess clocks, pool lengths and ski slopes, a physics immersion and an ecology course.

Wooden chess set with pieces arranged for a new game — The chess set · five years of games

01 · Mind Sports

Mind Sports

Assistant Leader & Tournament Director, SDSZ Mind Sports Club

9 years of Go; 5 years of chess; Amateur Go 4-Dan.
Club context: 60+ members and 10+ games.
Taught strategy, designed puzzles, mentored beginners.
Hosted four-school tournaments with 250+ peers taking part across events.

Badminton racket, table tennis paddle, Taekwondo belt and sparring gear laid out together — Rackets, belts, and puzzles — the weekly kit

02 · Athletics

Sports

Two school table tennis leagues.
Swimming, skiing, jump rope, pull-ups, and Taekwondo.
Taekwondo Red Belt.

Movement is the other half of the routine — league table tennis in school seasons, and swimming, skiing, jump rope, pull-ups, and Taekwondo through the year.

Edward with an instructor in front of a chalkboard of physics diagrams — UChicago Summer Session · physics immersion

03 · Further Learning

Further Learning

UChicago PHYS 10700 Immersion — dimensional analysis across blast, pendulum, and stellar scales; presentations on supernova shocks and quantum physics; 5 labs.
Coursera: Evolution and Ecology, The Big Stuff.

A university summer immersion in physics put dimensional analysis to work at every scale, from pendulums to supernova shocks, with five labs and two presentations. An online course in evolution and ecology kept the natural-history thread running between semesters.