UISG MYP Special Features Personal Project Showcase 2015 | Page 11
Yen Ju (Garcia) Chen
Originally from Taiwan, I have been a student in UISG for thirteen years,
living in an international school community and getting used to bidding farewell, not only to my friends, but also to every member of the UISG community who moves on to other places around the world. Even though they are
no longer physically present, they can and will be mentally and socially
connected to the UISG community, no matter where they are. A relationship is the state of being connected to others, and this was the global context associated with my investigation of the bond between the alumni and
current students of UISG. I am working towards the goal of establishing an
alumni association in UISG, which will reach out to all of our alumni. Establishing an alumni association is not creating a whole new community, but
instead, expanding and enhancing the existing UISG network, thereby
making it a more powerful one.
Gaeon Lee
This is my first year at UISG although this is my third year in an international school. Therefore, I needed to research about UISG before arrival but it
was difficult to decipher valuable information from long texts because they
are all written in foreign languages. However, from these difficulties I became more interested in information sharing and thinking about easier
ways to inform audiences.
The goal for this project was to allow people to understand information easily, regardless languages of they speak. This goal was set by links between
the past experience that I mentioned in the previous paragraph, Google
video, which was about Plain English Campaign and the global context,
Fairness; sharing finite resources with other people and with other living
things.
Firstly, I limited the information in the goal to the information about UISG.
Then, I needed to decide the way of informing, regardless languages of
they speak. The survey gave me an answer that the easiest form to receive
information in foreign language was video. Therefore, I created a video
which introduces about UISG as the product.