Episode 53: Leveraging your passions and legitimacy with Sarah Syed
Clear the Air
English - January 13, 2023 11:33 - 33 minutes - 50.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEducation Science Natural Sciences environment education empowerment sustainability youth Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Clear the Air welcomes 18-year-old Sarah Syed, a Top 20 Youth in the World and researcher in the nanotech world. Along with designing bioplastics made of food scraps, Sarah is the Founder of You Are the Change, an organizer of an international youth climate-tech hackathon, and esteemed public speaker. In this interview, Sarah shares how she leveraged her passions for climate action ever since grade 4. She illustrates the avenues she took to build her skills, and provides inspiring messages for youth interested in the tech industry with limited previous knowledge.
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Website: https://cleartheair.ca/ Podcast site: https://cleartheair.ca/podcast/ Instagram: @cleartheair.ca Twitter: @_ctablog ABOUT THE PODCASTClear the Air seeks to educate, empower and mobilize youth to take action against climate change. These weekly episodes will focus on a specific theme, teaching you how to take action RIGHT NOW in your own life. By listening to the podcast, you will become a sustainability expert in no time.
Jenna Phillips is the podcast host, a passionate university student, and a local climate action leader. She uses her expertise and desire for change to make a difference in the lives of others.
It’s time to Clear the Air of all this confusion about climate change. It’s time to learn how we, the youth climate leaders of today, can make a change. It’s time to take our future into our own hands.