An i EARNer that learned i EARN for

less than one year.

By: Huan-Cheng Liu (Thomas Liu, 劉奐呈 )

高雄市立陽明國民中學Kaohsiung Municipal Yangming Junior High Kaohsiung Municipal Yangming Junior High

SchoolSchool

中華民國中華民國Republic of ChinaRepublic of China

Outline

Self-introduction My name is Thomas Liu. Born in 2000, Millennium or Year of Dragon.

13 years old. From Kaohsiung, Republic of China. 7th grade student at Kaohsiung Municipal

Yangming Junior High School.

Self-introduction Joined i EARN last year, in 2012. Participated in two i EARN projects:

“Holiday Card Exchange” “Youth CaN.”

Got the first place in i EARN PBL contest in

this April.

My School Kaohsiung Municipal Yangming Junior High School located in Kaohsiung, Republic of China. Around 4000 students and 250 teachers in this

school. School Motto is “HUMANISM, MORALITY,

HARMONY, VITALITY.”

Our lovely school campus.

Holiday Card Exchange My English teacher, Mrs. Chen participated

in the 2011 i EARN conference. She shared i EARN with our class in 2012. Afterward, I knew how great i EARN is. Mrs. Chen helped us enroll groups on internet. We found the information of other countries. We made posters, and shared them with our classmates.

分 組 名 單

班級 Class

組別 Group

團名 Group name: ______________

Name

組長 (領導能力、英語能力)

美工長（美工能力）

繪畫長（繪畫能力）

資訊長（資訊能力）

創意長（創意能力）

機動長（機動功能）

Holiday Card Exchange Then we made cards for our friends. We waited for their cards to arrive to Kaohsiung. Two schools in Kaohsiung didn’t send their cards,

so we didn’t get them. We opened the cards and learned more

of the differences in different schools.

Holiday Card Exchange Some problems we encountered:

The age of our partners The time limit for us doing this project The expensive postal fee The content of the cards we got

Some of my classmates were a little disappointed, because we put a lot of effort into this project, but the cards that we got weren’t what we expected.

John McCrae P.S. (Canada)Age of students involved: 8-9Lisova kazka (Ukraine)Age of students involved: 6-10OŠ Domžale (Slovenia)Age of students involved: 9-10

Youth CaN My club teacher told me about

Youth CaN, so I signed up for it. i EARN Taiwan holds a 3-day winter

camp for Youth CaN in February. On the first day we did a “Flag for the Future” project. Every group chose a topic to change our environment. Our group wanted to “Prevent UNDERAGE Smoking.”

Youth CaN We started our second day talking with i

EARN’s founder Mr. Peter Copen. All groups started to work on their projects. We listed our ideas on our posters to let other

groups know what we were doing. Each group exchanged their ideas.

Youth CaN On the third day, six teachers came to talk with us and tell

us what to improve. We made a poster and learned to just leave our important

ideas on the poster. We combined our “ Prevent UNDERAGE

Smoking” poster with a PowerPoint.

Finally, our teachers told us about the Qatar youth summit.

Taiwan iEARN PBL Contest was held on April 27, 2013.

Our teachers notified me about this contest because I’m going to the youth summit in Qatar.

PBL Contest

PBL Contest Our topic is about “Holiday Card Exchange”. Teacher Vivian and Eppie chose Willy,

Yokky, Eric and me to represent YMJH in the Contest.

PBL Contest We prepared and practiced for the PBL

Contest during our nap time every day for two months.

PBL Contest We started with nothing. Willy made the PowerPoint, and I wrote our lines. After two months of training, we got the First Place

in this PBL Contest. All four of us learned the importance of

teamwork for problem solving.

Youth Summit at Qatar i EARN holds an international Youth Summit every year,

I decided to attend the 2013 Youth Summit at Doha, Qatar. My English teacher attended the 2011 Conference, so I asked

her what I need to do at the conference. I registered my account, and submitted my proposal. I also applied for the scholarship for the 2013 i EARN 20th

International Conference & 17th Youth Summit. Luckily I got the scholarship.

Youth Summit at Qatar got my scholarship prepared my project. chose my topic

An i EARNer that learned i EARN for less than one year.

submitted my project again, it was considered to be a Poster rather than a Presentation. they thought my work wasn’t complete.

Explained I uploaded an outline, not the final version. i EARN Qatar accepted my explanation

changed it to a 15-minute Presentation.

Youth Summit at Qatar Everyone needs to practice a dance to dance for the

culture night. My dancing skills aren’t good, so I took

a lot of time to practice. We also used Facebook to talk about

our ideas and about our projects. All of the members also needed to go

to the meetings about this Qatar trip.

The Value for Youth Summit at i EARN

What did I learn from i EARN? Global citizenshipGlobal citizenship TeamworkTeamwork Communication with other countriesCommunication with other countries Sharing my experiencesSharing my experiences Learning other culturesLearning other cultures