Overview

In the summer of 2012, Love Across the Coast organized our third summer camp at Luxi No.1 High School (湖南省泸溪县第一中学)in Luxi County, a small town in the mountainous area of Hunan Province, China. This year, we also cooperated with Engineering Global Leadership Honor Society, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The three-week camp was divided into two modules. During Module 1, 14 volunteer teachers and mentors worked closely with 130 students in seminars and collaborative group activities. During Module 2, 11 U Mich volunteers joined the camp and led interactive English workshops in small groups. Ten other volunteers led different mini-projects from which students could choose one to join and work intensively on a self-designed project with peer students.



Program Timeline

     05/13-06/15     Volunteer application open

     06/16-06/30     Volunteer recruitment

     06/30-07/27     Seminar content discussion, team meetings

     07/28-07/29     Volunteer training

     07/30-08/10     Summer Camp Module 1

     08/11-08/13     Team meetings with volunteers from U Mich

     08/14-08/18     Summer Camp Module 2

    

Volunteers

Twenty-five volunteers, including 11 volunteers from U Michigan and 4 members from Love Across the Coast summer camp committee, participated in the program. All volunteers are undergraduates, graduate students, or recent graduates, from US or Chinese universities. Representative schools include: Mount Holyoke College, Bryn Mawr College, University of California, Berkeley, Beihang University (北京航空航天大学), East China Normal University (华东师范大学), China University of Geosciences (中国地质大学), Renmin University of China (中国人民大学), Shanghai University (上海大学), and Hunan University (湖南大学).



Seminars and Activities

Seminars
     Economics is fun!                                 Yiwei Jiang
     Stress and Health                                 Jiaying Liu
     Japanese Culture                                  Yizhe Liu
     Psychology                                          Bingxiao Wang
     Exploring Geological Landscape             Xinping Xun
     Chinese Ancient Philosophy                   Yizhe Yang
Mini-Projects

     Social Investigation                                Ruhua Cai & Yizhe Liu
     Optimal Design for Packaging                 Yiwei Jiang

     Drama                                                  Su Xiang
     Photography & Sign Language                Xinping Xun
     Debate                                                  Yizhe Yang

     Art & Life                                               Siqi Zhang