#MEET Algae Energy Pavilion
This is a short interview we conducted with Chloe Huang, the creator of Algae Energy Pavilion. If you like this project and would like to vote for it, click here.
1. Please, tell us a bit about yourself: where are you from and what is your background?
My name is Chloe Huang and I am a 16-year-old student from Los Angeles, California. I attend a French-American high school and am a current candidate for the Bilingual International Baccalaureate Diploma. I am fluent in English, French, and Mandarin-Chinese, proficient in Spanish and Taiwanese, and am currently learning Italian and German. I am highly involved in the visual, performing, and literary arts, and find them to be the basis for my creations. I believe that climate change is one of our biggest global issues to tackle at the moment and strive to use my creativity to make a difference in our fight against it.
2. Can you describe your idea or project in two sentences?
The Algae Energy Pavilion is a waterside architecture that simultaneously resolves eutrophication, produces alternative energy, and interacts with its human surroundings.
3. How did you get your idea or concept?
I was inspired to design the pavilion when I noticed the oversaturation of algae in the lake of the aquatic park where I was supposed to design a sustainable architecture. I remembered reading about the possibility of converting algae into biofuels and that became the basis for the design.
4. What is unique about your idea/project and how does it benefit mankind?
My design is unique in that it does not halt the industrial/agricultural developments’ progress in their transition into cleaner production methods. The design also includes a sustainable, recreationally functional aesthetic element to its immediate environment.
5. Describe yourself as an entrepreneur in one sentence
I am an aspiring entrepreneur who wants to realize my creative vision.
6. How do you deal with people that doubt your abilities/initiatives?
I stand strongly by my visions and truly want to see them realize. I very much enjoy hearing other’s opinions and receiving constructive criticism, they take me one step closer to my end goal!
7. Where does your passion lie?
Positive creativity
8. What are you afraid of or what keeps you up at night?
Climate change due to human activity
9. According to you, money is a synonym for.....
Societal construct and allocation of resources.
10. If you could rid the world of three things, what would they be?
- Nuclear Weapons
- Terrorism
- Climate Change
11. What are the benefits you take from the Entrepreneurship Campus?
One primary benefit of the Entrepreneurship Campus is learning about the elements of entrepreneurship through video lessons and applying them to my project. I also like the fact that we can align our ideas and projects with the UN Sustainable Development Goals to gauge how our innovation can help to resolve some of the most pressing problems around the world.
12. What do you like more about the Entrepreneurship Campus?
I really enjoy learning about other people’s ideas and projects and receiving feedback from different people.
13. Which idea/project do you like most?
I really like the I-Fourth HyperGenerator because the project has very similar goals to mine, and is a scientific innovation which addresses multiple needs.
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