Canadians Carving out their futures overseas

Let your passion be your guide and you just may end up on the other side of the world. Jacob Burgess and Wynne Waring have.

Burgess is interning at the Gemini North Observatory on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, and Waring is working as the events and membership manager for a contemporary art organization in London, England.

Starry-eyed

Burgess, 19, is an Honours Physics student at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. He is studying to become a physicist in “an as yet undetermined field of research,” he says.

He spent this summer as an intern at the Gemini North Observatory in Hawaii, calibrating the multi-object sprectrograph before evening observations, reducing data, creating calibration files for spectrograph gratings.

Burgess has always had his sights on a career in physics.

“Physics has always been one of the areas I've considered. Gradually, over the years, other options such as medicine, engineering, graphic design and psychology have been pruned from the list.”

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