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Thursday, May 29th, 2025

Day 8 in Taiwan

Today was a busy travel day. We woke up early to ride on the High Speed Rail to Hsinchu in which we got to see Hsinchu Science Park. Our first stop when we arrived was to the Science Park Exploration Museum in which we got to see an array of new inventions that were being made at the park, one of which was a Scooter powered by Hydrogen gas. I thought that this was a cool idea to promote sustainability, however given that the scooter could only travel 80 km and its top speed was 15 km/hr, it doesn’t seem […]

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Thursday, May 29th, 2025

Day 7 in Taiwan

Today we hit one full week of being in Taiwan and it still feels so surreal to me. I feel like it has been ages since we all met up in the JFK airport, and we have done and seen so much since then. Our day started out with a visit to Professor Chen’s brother-in-law’s printing company, Hong Jaan, in which we had the opportunity to see the manufacturing side of businesses. It was cool to hear about how the products that they print have shifted over the past years as we have developed more and more technology. This shift […]

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Wednesday, May 28th, 2025

Day Eight – Hsinchu & Taichung

It was finally time to visit Hsinchu Science Park (HSP). The trip by high speed rail was even faster than I’d expected, only about 30 minutes, and we were not going at top speed yet. I’m looking forward to experiencing the full 180 mph when we go all the way from Kaohsiung back to Taipei. I’ve noticed that as we reach around the halfway point of our visit, I keep adding increasingly more things to my bucket list despite having less and less time to do them all. This is definitely a country I could see myself visiting again in […]

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Wednesday, May 28th, 2025

Day 6: National Taiwan University tour

After our class lecture and reflecting on the now week we have been in Taiwan we made our way to National Taiwan University. This happens to be the place that one of our leading professors, professor Chen, had graduated from. We where given a great tour by a couple of first year political science students. The tour was informative and I was able to have some small talk with them in mandarin as we walked along. We got to walk down the famous street with rows upon rows of palm trees. This was clearly a popular spot for pictures. A […]

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Wednesday, May 28th, 2025

5/27

Our day on Tuesday began with a train ride from Taipei to Hsinchu. Once we arrived in Hsinchu, we went to HSP, the Hsinchu Science Park, which is the equivalent to America’s Silicon Valley. We first went on a guided tour, where we learned about some of the most unique inventions that have come out of HSP.  One of the pieces of technology I found most interesting was the motorcycle that ran on hydrogen gas. I think this is a great alternative to methane gas, which releases harmful greenhouse gases to the environment and heavily contributes to global warming. However, […]

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Wednesday, May 28th, 2025

Taiwan Day eight (5/27)

Today (5/28) we started the morning off early in order to get to the high speed train in time. Although, it was good to start our day off early, I found myself exhausted all day. Riding the high speed train was cool because it was shaped differently than any train I have been on and it moved super fast. I noticed that the front of the train was trianglar which must have helped the train get up to speed. After we rode the train for 30 minutes, we got off and hoped back onto our bus and headed for science […]

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