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 Wildfires group--the twenty-third--were 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 decided to investigate embroidery as my inquiry project topic because I'm interested in the process of embroidering (getting silk, about how long it takes to make a piece depending on its difficulty/size), but also to some degree the economic aspect of it (why is this piece... more
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I think that studying tea would be interesting because tea is a healthy and traditional Chinese drink that is made from the leaves of plants or petals from flowers. It’s different from other drinks of this decade. If I were to study about tea, I think that I would learn how tea... more
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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
