08/10/2026
🌏 A change of environment can reveal new ways of thinking 💡
👤 This June, Wang Zilun from the NUS College of Design and Engineering experienced this firsthand during the 2026 Association of Pacific Rim Universities ( ) Undergraduate Leaders' Programme at the Southern University of Science and Technology - SUSTech in China 🇨🇳
🏙️ Shenzhen became a classroom of its own. From visiting Huawei Ox Horn Campus to exploring the city’s wider innovation ecosystem, he came to appreciate how technological progress depends on more than research alone—it also takes manufacturing capabilities, supply networks, and collaboration across sectors ⚙️
🧩 Working with an international team to bring different ideas together into a coherent capstone proposal also shaped his understanding of leadership as “the ability to connect people, disciplines, and institutions around a shared goal” 🤝
➡️ Swipe to see how studying abroad broadened Zilun's horizons 🚀
📸 Photos courtesy of Wang Zilun
APRU - Association of Pacific Rim Universities National University of Singapore