Goals:
To increase cultural exchange among local and foreign high school students.
To provide intercultural learning experiences between high school students.
To provide experiences that will improve international and intercultural understanding.
Conference theme:
The topic of this year's conference is "Brands." The students, both local and international, participating in this event are expected to express observations and supply researched papers on the "Brands" of their respective countries during discussions.
Conference date:
December 2 (Sunday) to December 8 (Saturday), 2007.
Target participants:
30 foreign students & 300 local Taiwanese students.
Venue:
Taiwan Changhua Senior High School.
Library Conference Center.
Host:
Ministry of Education, Taiwan.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan.
Changhua Senior High School,Taiwan.
Acer Incorporated.
Asus Incorporated.
Giant Bikes Company.
Qualifications:
Age: High school students from 10th to 12th grade.
Language proficiency: English.
High school students interested in journalism, writing, and international relationship are most welcome.
Changhua Senior High School (Taiwan): Opening of conference 03.12.2007
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Participants of conference: the foreign high school students from each of the countries listed below: United States of America, Russia, Finland, Ireland, Japan, Taiwan and Australia. |
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Boardroom: performances with reports of students from Finland and Japan |
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Team from Russia: Alexey Smolyaninov, Anna Pisemskaya, Olga Kochueva, Anton Shilov
Web site:
Karavaevo High School, Kostroma
E-mail:
ipkar@kosnet.ru
aasm51@mail.ru
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Team from Ireland: Ciaran Flynn, Shane Grehan, Clare Cryan, Sinead Nolan
Web site:
The high School, Dublin
E-mail:
office@highschooldublin.com
ciaranflynn1@yahoo.ie
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Team from Australia: Ishan Nadkarni, Kiril Mickovski, Nicholas Lochner, Steve Storey
Web site:
Sydney Boys High School
E-mail:
office@sydneyboys-h.schools.nsw.edu.au
stephen.storey@ sydneyboys_h.school.nsw.edu.au
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Team from Finland: Tiia Lehto, Salome Bucher, Mika Kuuppo, Mari Rantanen
Web site:
Helsingin Suomalainen Yhteiskoulu School
E-mail:
anja-liisa.alanko@edu.hel.fi
mari.rantanen@hse.fi
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Team from Japan: Alissa Ishikawa, Aki Miyamoto, Tatsuya Naito, Toru Handa
Web site:
Waseda University Honjo High School
E-mail:
gakuin@list.waseda.jp
w165128@waseda.jp
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Team from USA: Elissa Banas, Clifford Wadsworth, Jimmitti Teysir, Kayla Irwin
Web site:
City Honors School, Buffalo, New York
E-mail:
ebanas@buffaloschools.org
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Team from Taiwan: Johnny Wang, Oscar Wu, Erick Chen
Web site:
Changhua Senior High School
E-mail: library_lu@mail.chsh.chc.edu.tw
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Boardroom: performances of students from Russia. They have told about the brand " Kostroma - the native land of Snegurochka ". In the end of performance Russian students have presented to Changhua Senior High School a clothes of the Snow Maiden. Now Snegurochka lives in Taiwan too.
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Celebratory concert in the first day of conference: performance of a team from Russia
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Celebratory concert in the first day of conference: the ending of a concert
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Excursion: capital of Taiwan, the city Taipei. Visit of the Presidenttial Building
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All international teams became a good friends with students from Changhua Senior High School
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