Hello and welcome to my website. My name is and I am 20 year old Canadian citizen currently attending school at the University of Calgary. Before coming to the UofC, I took a 2 year diploma program in instrumentation engineering technology so, this is my first year of university. So far, I have really enjoyed my time in university and I feel that I have learned a lot. My plan is to graduate in 3 years, with a degree in computer science. Science has always been the subject I found to be the most interesting; however, this year I had the opportunity to take classes in many different subject areas and one of the most unique classes I got to be a part of this year, was a class called global inquires and challenges. The main focus of this class was to look at the global challenge of feeding 9 billion people by 2050 and to try and find a solution for it. At first this seemed to be a fairly straightforward question and I came into the class with some pretty strong opinions about what should be done. But, as the class progressed, I began to understand just how complicated this problem really was. That to even consider a problem of this magnitude requires a unique set of thinking skills and understanding. Things like being able to consider and evaluate various perspectives and being able to adapt to new ideas and solutions. But mostly, just being able to understand the immense amount of differences that exist among the billions of people that live on this planet. Everything from what they believe to how the feed themselves everyday and, somehow, we have to find a way to include every one of these people in a problem that concerns all of us.

While you are reading through this webpage, the purpose of which is to showcase the things I’ve learned in the global challenges and inquires class, including all the assignments I’ve done, individual research I’ve conducted, and my personal reflection on the  problem of feeding 9 billion people, you will get see how my opinions changed over the duration of the course. Starting with the very first assignment I did for this class, reflective assignment 1, which gives my original opinions on the challenge of feeding 9 billion people and then, finishing with my last assignment, reflective assignment 2, which shows the opinion I had on feeding 9 billion people after completing this course. What you’ll see is that as I began to put more thought into this issue and, as I started to use the skills I learned in this class to help me to evaluate this problem, my opinions changed a great deal and, I’m sure they will continue to change long after this class is over,

Enjoy.

Side note: be sure to read the comment section because I wrote a  narrative reflection for each of the assignments I did and, I explain the evidence I found,  in my own words.