iStudent's World Culture Day "Passport to Future": From the School Yard to the World

On January 27th, iStudent – Institute for International Relations and Study Abroad in collaboration with International Schools of North America hold a very exciting and remarkable event named “World Culture Festival” for students.

With the topic “Passport to Future”, the festival is a place for students to learn about cultures of different nations through food, musical instruments, folk games and typical folk dances. Working in international education area, iStudent and SNA share an interest in equipping students with knowledge of integration as a passport for them to confidently step into the world.

The highlight of this festival is “Điểm một thời – Âm vang đất nước” art show “ by Designer Sĩ Hoàng, which was staged and performed very elaborately and impressively. The show reproduced Vietnamese traditional musical and artistic space with the sound of Vietnamese chanty, Lithophone, K’ní and the history of ao dai.

At the festival, the students were also able to immerse themselves in the world cultures through booth activities. A tour around the school yard reflected a tour around the world, where they could print from Dong Ho woodcut paintings, write in calligraphy on poonah-paper, dance with the Danish dancers, grill Australian sausages, try spicy rice cakes in exciting K-Pop background music or race against Superman and Spiderman – American popular cultural symbols. Hundreds of students were very eager to play and enjoy experiences in such a lively atmosphere.

“This is a wonderful day. I really love the festival and hope there’ll be more events like this, Passport to Future 2.0, 3.0 for example, where we’ll have more booths of many other countries such as India, China or Egypt. I really enjoy printing from Dong Ho paintings at Vietnamese booth, but the milk tea at Taiwan one was the best!” – said Bui Minh Lac, an 8th grader.

Mother of a 6th grader - Tran Gia Khang, Ms. Nguyen Thi Thu Ha has shared that “learn to play” and “play to learn” were what they really did, and that these activities should be promoted. “All of his older siblings have gone overseas to study so he wanted to study abroad too. These occasions offer him experiences and help him make good choice of an appropriate country for his future.”

At “Passport to Future” World Culture Festival, iStudent – Institute for International Relations and Study Abroad has introduced to students a summer camp program to many countries around the world. In June and July 2018, iStudent will bring Vietnamese students to America, Australia, Denmark, Singapore and Taiwan - the countries with the most advanced education. The program includes English, Culture and Science courses as well as international exchange and touring activities.

Especially, iStudent is the only company in Vietnam to enroll students for FutureHack startup summer camp at Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – the world’s best university in 2016 according to QS Ranking World. FutureHack gathers up students from all around the world, who are creative, interested in technology and attracted to startup.

It is where students will learn the latest technology with MIT professors and access successful startup models of Forbes 30under30 members. The best students will get letter of recommendation from MIT professors – a perfect ticket for scholarship opportunities at the best universities in the world.

“With a firm commitment to study qualities and conditions, iStudent has been making continuous efforts to offer diverse programs that are appropriate to each student, and that bring them opportunities to study and work with foreign friends, to practice their skills and to gain a deeper understanding of themselves.” – said Ms. Doan Vu Anh Duong – Director of Institute for International Relations and Study Abroad.

At this point of time, iStudent is enrolling students nationwide for summer camp programs to Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Australia, America and Denmark until April 30th 2018. These programs last from 2-4 weeks, in which students depart on Sundays of June and July 2018. As for FutureHack startup summer camp at Harvard and MIT, Boston, America, the program is from July 21st toAugust 4th 2018.

(SOURCE: ISTUDENT)