Leon Chen

2023
  • High School:
  • Canyon Crest Academy

  • University:
  • USC

  • Pioneer Semester:
  • 2023

  • Pioneer Research Topic:
  • Urban Flora: A Study on Urban Plant Ecosystem Services, Stressors on Plants in Urban Environments, and Physiological and Phenological Responses to Urban Stressors

Leon Chen

What I learned through Pioneer

When I did Pioneer, I remember one of the first meetings I just kind of expressed my ideas that I thought plants are kind of boring… My professor told me to let myself be surprised and just be open to that. And that’s what I did… I realized how super complex life is. There’s so much that’s so complex that it almost seems like there’s never enough for me to learn in a single day — and that kind of drives me to want to learn every day.

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