Driven by Nature: Xavier Cardoza at TEDxGoldenGatePark

Описание: Xavier Cardoza describes his passion for nature through his obsession with Bigfoot.

Xavier was born in the Year of the Golden Dragon, thirteen years ago in San Francisco. Moving over the years from San Francisco to Berkeley and now living in Napa where he is a 7th Grader at Blue Oak School. He has one younger brother and a motley crew of stepsiblings, one nephew and cousins.

Since before he could read he devoured information from nature shows and always had obsessive interests starting with birds then dinosaurs and now Sasquatch. He spends his free time playing basketball, volleyball and fencing. This past spring with his partner they won the all Napa Science Fair -- by constructing a Tesla coil from hardware store supplies.

Xavier is keenly interested in travel and has visited Mexico, Peru, South Africa, Canada, Vatican City, Botswana, England, France and Italy. His repulsion for communism runs deep. On his travels he is typically seen dining on local fare from kudu to guinea pig to alpaca prosciutto. On his recent trip to South Africa he was introduced to bird watching and is fascinated by it.

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