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Here you will read winning articles from our scholarship participants.

Every year Speedwing holds a scholarship by having participants submit an article about their overall experience on our programs. Participants have kindly shared with us their adventures and winning entries have won them the program fee in return. Read more below!



Quek Shiwei, Bryce Canyon (Xanterra), WAT 2009 E-mail
Participants Experience - WAT 2009 CIEE/Speedwing scholarship winners SG

Quek Shiwei 1

Summer of Adventure

Before I left Singapore for America, my friend quoted Mr Bennett in the BBC film version of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and teasingly commented that I was ‘bent on pleasure again’. Last year, I had traveled a large part of Europe on a student exchange program and I had been charmed by its history, architecture and people. Even so, little did I expect the riches of pleasure I would experience this summer!  However, it would have been more appropriate to say that I was bent on adventure for I had no idea what Bryce Canyon and my travels would surprise me with this time…

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