Taiwan’s education system produces high-achieving students. However, due to rigorous curriculums and competitive environments, most students graduate without finding their purpose. In collaboration with Sunny Yang, CEO of the City Wanderer Education Association, this project evaluated ways to help City Wanderer better understand how youth find purpose. Alongside archival research, the team remotely completed surveys and interviews with various volunteering organizations based in Massachusetts, USA and students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The team also compared volunteering to City Wanderer’s Wandering Challenge via surveys and interviews the organization conducted in 2021. We found that: volunteering helps develop an individuals purpose, the Wandering Challenge is more effective at finding purpose, and students conflate purpose to career.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Govilla, Mayank
• Tuma, Kian
• Jumpp, Cayla
• Wang, Haopeng

Subject

• Learning
• Well-Being
• Community

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-043022-180429
• 66496

Advisor

• Burrier, Grant A.
• Butler, Melissa

Year

• 2022

Center

• Taipei, Taiwan Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• City Wanderer Education Association

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 3 - Good Health and Well-being
• 4 - Quality Education

Date created

• 2022-04-30

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright