The Magic of Working Together - Reflection from the Best Team

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." ~ Edward Everett Hale

When smart, hard-working students came together from across the globe to compare their research and ideas for making the world a better place, it was naturally difficult to keep a team together due to availability constraints, cultural barriers, and knowledge gaps. However, when a team figures out how to work together and help each other, that's when magic happens.

Please join us in congratulating the Best Team from the Power for a Better Future Online Forum competition: Team The Fossil Fools, researching and brainstorming Singapore's clean energy strategy to meet its Paris Agreement goals. The contributing members are:

The Best Team

• Veronika Strečková - American International School in Cyprus

  
  

• Karthik Anumolu - The Gaudium School, India

  
  

• Anna Werntges - Goetheschule, Germany

• Ami Mizuno - Shonan Shirayuri Gakuen Junior & Senior High School, Japan

Here is the reflection from Anna of her journey towards the Best Team:

Anna Werntges - Goetheschule, Germany

"....it is hard to believe that eight weeks ago I barely knew anything about Singapore other than maybe its location and its reputation as a leading country in tech. Through the online forum I did not only get to enhance that knowledge but also to learn about Singapore’s unique role as a citystate whose policy is driven between the need to become climate friendly and their reliance on fossil fuels to stay economically stable and rich in culture and innovation.... 

I am so grateful to have gotten the chance to meet people from different countries and backgrounds (I really love my fossil fools) and I am convinced that we were a great group. I am also looking forward to stay in contact with my group and to probably also seeing them again in the next forum.  Additionally, I will use both, the knowledge and the social skills to join my school’s BWB club this summer and I also believe that they are really helpful for my MUN and research activities.

Finally, I also learned something about myself: I actually do not only think that the Paris Agreement and climate change are interesting topics that are often underestimated, but that I (having in mind the theme of our second global session) want to actually be able to consider myself a changemaker." ~ Anna

Please join us in congratulating Anna and her teammates for winning the Best Team Award. The Forum Outcome Report is now published here.