Guest Speaker - Jack Gao

We had a guest speaker, Mr. Jack Gao, today in our class. Jack is a former VP student who graduated last year from IB. He is doing Computer Science in Waterloo and Business at Laurier. He is also going to California for Co-op which threw me back in my seat as I was surprised to hear a first-year university student being so involved. Apparently, HL courses can act as transfer credits. Being involved in extra-curricular activities for a new experience and making friends were emphasized. A lot of topics such as recursion and sorting were written on the board to prepare for computing contests. A friend of Jack, Jacob Plachta, is a known person to me. From grade 6-8, I went to Programming club at Woburn CI and Jacob was our leader. A lot of inspiration was taken from this presentation and I enjoyed it greatly!