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Student Name	NASA	Stanford	Volkswagen
Adeline Jong	NASA technologies does not only just impact space but also our daily lives.The exhibition featured more aspects of our lives like improved tires from the need of creating suitable material to land on soft surface of mars, firefighter gear from adapting space suit and vacuum cleaner which was originally needed to extract sample from the moon surface. This is a reminder of how much technologies advancement can be applied beyond specialized field and leads to a greater impact than we imagine.	As mentioned during the sharing, Stanford students managed to enrol in such a prestigious school as these individuals are set apart because of their highly driven of their passion, pro-active attitude on their learning. and push themselves to the limits as supported by how the students take charge of their projects in volkswagen	We dived deeper into autonomous driving. Pathway planning was introduced. It consist of perspective where the car uses highly precised sensors to detect surroundings, control where the car decides what to do and lastly do validation.
Andrew Tay	“Space shuttle Endeavour was built using spare parts from Discovery and Atlantis”	The stanford hoover bells are only played during warm weather. So that more people can enjoy it (people will stay indoors during the cold). Furthermore, there’s only 1 person who knows how to play the bell. The bell is also played by smashing your fist onto the keys as shown in the video	Uber has served more customers than McDonalds selling Burgers. In fact, it took only uber 6 months after its’ billion customer to reach the 2 billion milestone. This visit has also been very enlightening on how autonomous driving offers not just safer roads for both drivers and pedestrians. It has also taught me what are the some of the other areas of society it is able to influence. The methodology used in their research has also been riveting such as paying for a chauffeur to represent the scenario where uber has a fleet of autonomous cars.
Benedict Wee
Claire Teo	One thing that caught my attention at NASA was the showcase of its spinoff. From bicycle helmet, to braces brackets, to smoke detectors, its shows how an innovation (NASA technologies) can be evolved in many ways. In this case, the technology benefits the humans.	Interesting how the student mentioned that everyone in Stanford has a passion. And i think this draws back to the point mentioned during facebook where it is important to grow one’s strengths/passion. Regarding this, i believe Singapore’s education system should adopt such encouragements to the students such that every individual can be developed in full capacity, in their own unique way.	Interesting to see how the company is trying to improve the systems of autonomous driving and sharing the various kind of technology that is used - e.g. how they use light to measure where are the objects and etc
Clara Chong	“The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero.” A quote from Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison’s paper ‘Searching for Interstellar Communications’ (published in September 1959) If NASA’s research was confined to what seemed practical, we probably will not have such great space advancements today!	“Everyone at Stanford is passionate about something and will be able to talk to you for hours about what they’re passionate about.” - Zhenqi, Stanford. I do think it’s important to cultivate students who truly care about something of social impact in the world, and put their learning into practice. !	“It’s hard because taking discrimination out of one area only squeezes it in another area” (in answering the question of “is VAIL working with uber to solve this discrimination issue?”) Stephen, VAIL I find this a very interesting frame to view discrimination because it’s not as clear-cut as we think, especially since discrimination come from subconscious prejudices.
Clarissa Poedjiono	“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough” In the exhibition, we got to see the different components and tools that NASA had used in the past to complete their missions. We also got to take a look at the interior of ISS spaceship. NASA strives to continue improving their technology from time to time by learning from their past mistakes and that is what makes them a company they are today.	“In Stanford, everyone knows that they want to build something.” The staff and students in Stanford kept emphasizing that their university is focused more on research than academia; it focuses more on practical knowledge than theoretical one. This is one of the reasons why students in Stanford often can make it to be leaders in their respective industry which proves that knowledge acquired from experience is oftentimes more valuable.	“Sustainable transportation takes place when the concern about environment, society, and economy is equally valued.” In this trip, the research center introduced us to the concept of ethicality of self-driving car. The question posed here is about whether self-driving car is supposed to behave as how the human will behave or how the rule regulates it to behave given a certain situation. Another concern about the current and future trend of transportation as a service is whether it is serve everyone without discrimination to a certain group of people in the society. In order to gather information about how humans behave in a certain situation on the street, the research center has developed some interesting means to collect the information of the physical and brain activities such as using fMRI and running simulation. All in all this goes to show that the research ongoing in this field is posed to many different concerns before it can successfully produce an end product that can fulfil all the criteria that in the end will successfully deliver the full performance.
Derrick Lee Ming Yang
Eustace Zheng	Harnessing and advancing technology and science that are quinnessential for life on earth	Everyone here at Stanford University knows what they want/want to build Everyone is deeply passionate in what they are doing	The three Es - Economy, Equity, Environmental; always look forward when developing technologies and ensuring that it remains sustainable for everyone in society kept within these three Es.
Felix Wu	It was interesting to get a snapshot into the space exploration that mankind has embarked on thus far. Cool that we have explored the stars, planets and other solar systems.	It was interesting to talk to Stanford students and what made them different. I think us Singaporeans could be more entrepreneurial and risk taking to really grow.	The biggest takeaway from the Volkswagen visit was the perspective of looking at the future of sustainable transportation via the 3 Es. Environment, Equity, Economy.
Student Name	NASA	Stanford	Volkswagen
Goh Jia Yi Timothy	Interesting exhibit to a space discovery research centre to learn more about interplanetary formations.	Very nice campus buildings and would really want to study here in the future next time!	In depth analysis and a very informative session in how sensors can be so applicable to the automobile industry.
Goh Jin Qiang	Sharing technologies that are benefiting life on earth on a commercial product	Although academic results reflects your ability in university, experience and portfolio is equally important in today’s competitive world	It's not always about creating a perfect product but rather, optimising the resources that you have.
Jacquelyn See	“I would like to be remembered as someone who was not afraid to do what she wanted to do.” - Dr. Sally Ride Visiting NASA was an eye opening experience - it was interesting to learn that Sally Ride was the first American woman to ride on Space Shuttle Challenger.	I learnt from the Stanford University students that experience is more important than grade. As hiring managers are looking for candidates who can demonstrate the ability to perform the job at hand. Therefore, it is important to gain more exposures during school days by taking up internships, doing more large scale projects. Such skill sets will be useful in the real life scenarios.	From the trip to Volkswagen Automotive Facility, I understand that the company is currently working on research - in understanding how people and machines can work and communicate with one another. One interesting fact that i learnt is, the future of the vehicles would be more about anticipating the customers’ mobility needs and the provision of mobility services which are seamlessly integrated alongside other services like entertainment, education, or shopping.
Jamie Chew	Did you know that a space shuttle tire is not much larger than a truck tire? Despite its size, weight is of extreme importance, thus tires are actually designed to conserve weight! Main takeaway? Size doesn’t matter, it’s the quality that counts.	“Everyone here in Stanford is passionate about something.” Often, many students do not know their passion and purpose in life. It is important to find something you that enjoy doing, in order to excel in it.	Creativity is needed everywhere - even researchers have to be creative with developing studies to study their problems.
Jared Sim
Jeremy Bachtiar
Jolyn Yio
Jonathan Chew
Moses Fam
Remy Ng
Student Name	NASA	Stanford	Volkswagen
Rizudin Bin Jalar
Shilpa Suresh
Tan Jian Hua
Tan Ming Sheng
Tay Wei Xuan
Terence Yeo
Wong Zhe Yin, Treasa
Xavier See
Zhuo Yunying (Kaelyn)