Anna, a BWYA alumna now studying Economics, Finance, and Art History at the University of Hong Kong, reflects warmly on her seven years at the academy. Her favourite memories include cultural trips to places like Jiangxi and Luoyang, where she explored pottery and tea traditions with classmates from diverse backgrounds. She also fondly recalls service projects and outdoor activities like climbing, which helped build teamwork and lasting friendships. These experiences, she says, were not only fun but deeply formative.

Meet Olivia — a proud BWYA alumna from the Class of 2019, now deep in the world of social research at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. With a master’s degree underway in Social Research/Sociology and an undergraduate degree in History already under her belt, Olivia is blending the worlds of qualitative and quantitative research like a pro. But before she was crunching data and decoding graphs, she was starring in student films and painting surrealist dreams in art class.