Served as bilingual MC for two back-to-back diplomatic engagements hosted by Yunlin County Government: a formal county governance exchange meeting in the morning, and a VIP reception dinner in the evening.
The meeting was chaired by County Magistrate Chang Li-shan, with German counterparts including Minister of the Interior Christian Pegel (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) and County Mayor Stefan Sternberg of Bayreuth. The evening welcomed additional delegations from Gunma Prefecture, Japan.
I also assisted in guiding the media interview session and facilitating exchanges between officials from both county governments throughout the day.
High-stakes diplomatic settings require more than translation — the tone, formality level, and cultural nuance of each message must arrive intact on the other side. Switching between the formal register of a government meeting and the warmth of a reception dinner, within the same day, is its own kind of skill.
Then around 2019, TSMC's stock started taking off. And by now, keeping up with Taiwan's semiconductor giants has started to feel like basic financial literacy — everyone's investing, everyone's talking about it. But even so, I don't think most people actually understand what "semiconductor technology," "advanced process nodes," or even "chips" really mean. I was one of those people. Until June 12th.
The 2026 New Taipei Science Day took place at Haishan Senior High School — 500 students and teachers, including upper elementary and middle schoolers from across New Taipei City, all gathered to experience what it means to be an "Atomic Architect."
Professor Teng Chin-Pei from Tamkang University's Department of Chemistry designed the nano-gold experiment: silver is deposited onto nanoscale gold particles through a chemical process. Because of the unique plasma resonance effect at the nanoscale, the color change is visible to the naked eye — and through that, participants get a tangible feel for what Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) actually is.
ASM, the co-organizer, is the global market leader in ALD equipment. Dutch company, founded in 1968, 2,900+ patents. They don't make chips — they make the machines that make chips. Which tells you everything about how vast this industry really is.
I think this might be one of the first times in educational history that semiconductor manufacturing concepts have been brought directly to elementary and middle school students. Even the teachers were full of questions the entire time — which made me realize: we so often underestimate children's capacity for curiosity, simply because they're still in compulsory education.
One elementary school student asked me: "Why does the color keep changing if we're adding the same ingredients each time?" I was so moved. Because of Professor Teng's experiment design, because of how the session unfolded, I watched children think — and find their own way into understanding something. There's nothing more valuable than that.
擔任雲林縣政府一日兩場外交活動的雙語主持人：上午為正式縣政交流會議，晚上為貴賓接待晚宴。
早上的交流會議由縣長張麗善主持，德方出席包含梅克倫堡-前波莫瑞邦內政部長裴格爾，以及巴歆縣縣長史坦貝格。晚間晚宴更進一步迎接日本群馬縣代表團。
我同時協助引導媒體聯訪，以及促進全天各方官員之間的交流互動。
外交場合的口譯不只是語言轉換，每一句話的語氣、正式程度與文化細節，都必須完整傳達到對方。在同一天內，從正式政府會議切換到晚宴接待的氛圍——本身就是一種需要準備的能力。
大約2019年前後，台積電的股票開始飛漲，到了今年，半導體好像變成全民常識，但直至今日，大家好像依然沒有很明白這些技術到底是什麼意思。我也是其中之一——直到6月12日。
新北科學日在2026/6/12於海山高中盛大登場，五百名師生，當中包含新北市的國小高年級、國中生，大家都來透過實驗，體會「原子建築師」。
淡江大學鄧金培教授設計的「奈米金實驗」，透過在奈米等級的黃金上，以化學方法鍍上銀。因為奈米粒子獨特的「電漿效應」，我們可藉由肉眼觀察到顏色變化，進而體會「原子層沉積技術」（ALD）。
協辦廠商ASM是全球ALD設備的市場領導者。荷蘭公司，1968年成立，兩千九百多項專利。他們不做晶片，他們做做晶片的機器——由此可見，這個產業是多麽龐大。
我想這應該是教育史上前幾次，將半導體製程的知識教給國小、國中生，在場也有非常多老師都不斷提問——我深刻發現：我們經常因為孩子們正接受義務教育，而忽略了對知識好奇的重要性。
有一位國小生問我「為什麼都加同樣的原料，顏色會變得不同？」我好激動，因為鄧老師的實驗設計、因為我的帶領，我發現孩子們在思考、在用自己的方式理解知識——沒有什麼比這個更可貴的了。
