Grade 4 and 5 students from ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½â€™s Chonburi and Bang Na campuses came together for their first-ever survival camp. Hosted at the Chonburi campus, the event aimed to teach students essential survival skills and then reinforce those skills by applying them to later activities. The camp challenged students to learn how to use available resources to build shelters, cook, and more, all while having fun.

Hands-On Activities and Teamwork
The day was filled with hands-on activities where students learned by doing. They practiced addressing injuries through role-playing scenarios and tied knots to build shelters using rope, bamboo, and tarps. They worked in teams to read different types of maps to solve problems, using this skill in a whole-campus scavenger hunt to find a missing word. When students were working on these activities, they took the lead in solving problems together, with teachers acting as facilitators. The camp also ended with an exciting lesson on building fires and cooking their own food. Students had so much fun throughout the day as they tackled new challenges. Ìý

Building Skills and Leadership
We were thrilled to see the students collaborate and support one another throughout the camp. They displayed impressive leadership, engineering, and survival skills while fostering teamwork and communication. The camp was a great opportunity for students to apply what they had just learned, reinforcing their skills through real-world activities. This memorable experience highlighted their ability to problem-solve, lead, and work together as a team, and we couldn’t be prouder of their efforts.

Ìý

The post Survival Camp at ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½ Chonburi first appeared on ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½ | American International School - Wells.

The post Survival Camp at ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½ Chonburi appeared first on ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½ | American International School - Wells.

Day 1: S.A.F.E Club (Monday, February 17)

SAFE’s stands for ‘Save Animals From Experiments’. Our mission is to spread awareness and to sensitize young adults about animal exploitation. We organised several activities throughout the week, which included two talks concerning vivisection and animal tourism. The first talk was led by Ms. Tammi, an animal activist, who strives to make a positive environment for animals by informing young adults about the aftermath of vivisection. This informative speech made students and teachers better aware of the exploitation of animals. Our second talk was regarding animal tourism. Ms. Brighde and Ms. Wichayapat, animal and environmental activists, led the discussion on animal tourism. This thought-provoking discussion left students with motivation to bring about a positive change, a change to help and care for animals. At the end, we accomplished our motive to provoke new ideas and a sincere effort to learn more about animals that cohabit our planet.Ìý

Day 2: K9 Club (Tuesday, February 18)

K9 invited the owner of CHSAthai Stray Animal Shelter and two of their dogs to our campus. The is an organisation that K9 helps raise funds for. This organisation provides stray dogs with a safe place to live. In order to fund this for this cause, K9 sold hotdogs and smoothies. Previously, K9 had successfully raised ta large amount of funds for this organisation to continue with their mission, which is to provide shelter to dogs. Their presence this week contributed to the success and spirit of Wells Animal Awareness Week and their club at large.

Day 3: Love Ocean Life (LOL) Club (Wednesday, February 19)

LOL, Love Ocean Life,Ìý sold delicious cupcakes for a bake sale. Moreover, they had games to raise funds and awareness about ocean life, connecting to SDG Number 14: Life Under Water.

Day 4: PAWS Club (Thursday, February 20)

PAWS Club organised and sold milk tea to raise funds forÌý, a rescue and adoption shelter for stray cats. In addition to that, PAWS also brought in kittens that were from the paws shelter. In buying boba milk/pink tea, buyers learned about PAWS greater mission to help contribute to the stray cats issue here in Thailand.

Day 5: Collaboration of all clubs (Friday, February 21)

On this day all clubs decided to collaborate to achieve our goals together. The sincere efforts of the organizers, Shreyaa, Cristine, Riddhi, Pam, Peter, Ivy, Muskan, Poorvi, Shraddha, Ivy, and Su, helped in the successful completion of the event. Special thanks to all and Ms. Katina, IB Creativity, Activity & Service (CAS) & Events Coordinator, who put endless effort in guiding us through the whole process.Ìý

Written By: Shreyaa Srivastava

(Class of 2022 &ÌýStudent leader of S.A.F.E)

The post Animal Awareness Week 2020 first appeared on ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½ | American International School - Wells.

The post Animal Awareness Week 2020 appeared first on ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½ | American International School - Wells.

On November 3-4, 2018, international school students from all over Thailand participated in the first ever conference hosted at ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½, On Nut Campus.

Youths for SDGs is an academic event that focuses on the and strives to be a part of this universal call to action. The event objectives included raising awareness about the SDGs, creating a network of youths passionate about making change, and promoting creativity in finding solutions towards current local issues. With those objectives in mind, the event consists of three activities: the Breakout Session, the SDG Quest, and the Case Challenge. High school Youth Leaders led the discussions and activities in the Breakout Session and SDG Quest.

The Breakout Session is an interactive discussion where participants get to explore different themes centered around the SDGs. The SDG Quest is a game where randomly-grouped participants can collaborate in exploring fun activities and booths related to the SDGs. The Case Challenge presents a current real-life local issue to the teams to find creative and feasible solutions to.

High school students from international schools were given the opportunity to network and share ideas, as well as capitalize on their creativity and problem-solving skills. A total of approximately 150 students from 14 international schools around Thailand participated in this event. Schools came from outside of Bangkok to join in the event as well.

The event started off with the opening ceremony, where the conference director and initiator of Youths for SDGs, Prima Pupornchai (Wells’ Class of 2015 alumna) gave a welcoming speech. This was followed by a speech from our guest speaker Mr. Sorawit Paiboonrattanakorn, who gave an inspiring talk about establishing Saturday School, a social enterprise where volunteers teach children life skills on Saturdays.

Then the students headed to their respective discussion rooms for the Breakout Session, lead by youth leaders. There were six themes, which covered all of the Global Goals. The themes included:

• End poverty in all its forms and create decent jobs
• End hunger, achieve food security and promote sustainable agriculture
• Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
• Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
• Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and foster innovation
• Conserve and sustainably use resources for sustainable, development and promote climate action

In the SDG Quest, students were separated into random groups, with various schools mixed together. They were instructed to earn as many points as they could by participating in the activity booths and completing tasks related to SDGs within a limited time. This fun activity made the students interact and bond with students from other schools.

In the Case Challenge, the participants regrouped with their teams of three and received the case for this year’s challenge. The theme of this year’s case, Waste Management in Thailand, was revealed. The teams had two and a half hours of case cracking time to find a solution and make a presentation. The following day was the presentation day, which consisted of 3 rounds: the preliminary round, the semifinal round, and the final round.

The judges for the semifinal and final rounds were Ms. Chutima Pratheepkongjaroen, Social Impact Manager at Local Alike, Dr. Kallaya Suntornvongsagul, Environmental Researcher and Professor at Chulalongkorn University, and Ms. Qi Xue, UN Volunteer & SDG Research and Advocacy Officer at UNDP.

The winner was team Satit Kaset IP. Their idea was to create an application called MyWaste, which tackles food and plastic waste in Thailand by providing incentive to people to lower their consumption by earning points in the app. There was a 5000 baht seed capital for the winning team to to implement a small scale version of their solution.

The closing ceremony concluded the event with a and a closing speech from the conference director, Prima Pupornchai.

Overall, the event has inspired many students to learn more about the SDGs and to create change in the society. It was a very fun, productive, and memorable weekend.

Thank you to our partners, sponsors, school advisors, students and, guests for your wonderful support for this youth initiative. This event was truly an event for youths, by youths.

Written By: Prima Pupornchai, Class of 2015 Alumna

The post Youths for SDGs first appeared on ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½ | American International School - Wells.

The post Youths for SDGs appeared first on ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½ | American International School - Wells.