Some of us in the IB cohort visited the IBeyond Conference today. It was quite an amazing experience to have, and I was really impressed to learn that the entire conference was organized by the second year IB students at Churchill secondary. Although the conference was not at all aimed for those of us who are learning about the IB programme itself, it was good to see how excited and motivated the Churchill students were. This would definitely have been an event that I would have benefited from when I was a graduating student myself.

I didn’t learn quite as much as I had hoped to by attending this conference, but it was also inspiring to listen to the different speakers present at the conference. It was reassuring to hear that in this day and age, people have the ability to excel in more than one field; I love teaching, but there are also many different things I want to do in the future as well!

Joni Mar was one of the speakers that Minhe and I listened to, and she has gone through so many different amazing careers already (news reporter, interior decorator and executive coach to name a few).