From teaching secondary school physics to launching satellites into space
Even while creating the new frontier of space tech, this educator at heart is shaping the future generation of space systems engineers.
SAT across from a couple of Ministry of Education (MOE) scholarship interviewers was Mark Lim Jian Wei, with his A Level result slip laid on the table between them.
From the get-go, he knew he wanted to be a physics teacher. His goal was to inspire kids to create innovations that make a meaningful impact, because he felt he could only do so much on his own.
So when the interviewers asked what he wanted to teach, he replied: Physics. They pointed at his results and said: "But out of all your grades, you did the worst in physics."
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