Since 2012, groups of Shanghai American School Grade 8 students have taken four-week journeys to the village of Xizhou in Southwest China's Yunnan Province as participants in the school's Microcampus program. As representatives of their campuses, these students leave the "bubble" of their home city of 22 million people and become immersed in a new community of 2000 people, 2000 kilometers from home, at 2000 meters above sea level.
The W group--the twenty-third--will be in Xizhou from March 9th through April 5th, 2019. Guests from around the world are encouraged to follow their journey--reading about, responding to, and joining in the learning adventure.
Featured Projects
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I want to find out the way the people in the village use the valuable resource water. These days I am also researching about water problems in the world. There are three main problems of water right now, they are: ownership, pollution and diversion. I want to know how people in... more
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For my inquiry project, I chose to investigate local recreation/hobbies. I want to learn many kinds of activities from them and bring it back to school so we could play it ourselves, instead of playing the same old soccer game every lunch. I want to know if the XiZhou people... more
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I decided on a topic that I was most passionate about: textile production in the Xizhou area... more
