Fencing may be a niche sport but it can teach you many important life lessons. Today, I will share the 5 lessons I find the most important. I will also touch on how every individual can make an impact on their community. Denyse is a Singapore National Fencer and an incoming undergraduate in Economics and Political Science at UC Berkeley. She graduated from RI in 2021 with 6 distinctions. In RI, she was a founding member of Project Perpective and published two children books targeted at
correcting negative perceptions against migrant workers.

A Team Singapore Fencer since 2016, Denyse is a recipient of the prestigious Sport Excellence Scholarship and won the Singapore Schools Sports Council Best Sportsgirl Award in 2020. Her achievements include winning Gold at the Asian Junior Championships in 2019 and at the SEA Games twice, in 2019 and 2022. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx