Majd Husein

As being chosen by my school to participate in the 21^st Century Schoolhouse Educator Conference and Directors meeting, I felt really anxious of attending the conference and meeting new people from different countries.

At first I had many expectations about how the conference would be and what projects would be there to work on, but my expectations were not too far from the reality.

In the first day, we arrived at the conference location in Salem, Oregon, which was a very beautiful place where you could feel comfortable and ready to work. The people there were very nice and welcoming.

After that day, every school presented what local action and community education projects they have done concerning environment, health, … etc, in order to discuss and exchange new ideas about what new things could be done for the 21^st Century Schoolhouse.

We as students, being responsible of The Global Echo magazine, discussed what new things could be done to enhance the magazine.

We also had a presentation by Ralph Cordell from Centers for Disease Control &Prevention (CDC) to help us gain new ideas and how it could be applied to the 21^st Century Schoolhouse.

And the last work was about making a project to use epidemiology in the schoolhouse, so that all schools could work together.

Finally, I hope that the next conference would be the same, in working as a team and understanding each other, and bringing out new projects that could help us and the world, in having a better place.

21^stCentury Schoolhouse Activities: The Educator’s Conference

Ricardo Perez

Being involved in the 21^st Century Schoolhouse Educator’s Conference has been a lot of fun. It is giving me a chance to interact with people from all over the world. On our stay here we will be working or projects together. To help us get to know each other, the staff has some scheduled activities for us that we will be doing through out the week.

On Monday, June 27, we took a trip to Pacific City. The bus arrived at 4:15p.m. Everyone was excited and anxious. The drive was not that long it was about an hour drive, although the views we seen where outstanding.

Once we got there we went to Cape Kiwanda where we ate pizza and salad. After we ate dinner we headed out towards the shore.

The first thing the delegates and I did was run up the sand dune. The sand dune was very high but it was not very steep. It’s a hill made up of different sands.

While we were up there we took photos of the water and each other. We headed back to the water near some rocks to hang out. The trip was a great opportunity to get to know the other delegates.

By having these activities we get to talk and get more comfortable with each other. By doing that we work better as a team and are willing to share more ideas. There are more trips the staff at 21cs has planed for us. Today we will be going to the zoo in Portland, Oregon. There will be a concert that will be held at the zoo after it closes. On the night of June 27^thwe went bowling at Town and Country, which was fun. I am also looking forward to a barbeque that we will have on the 28^th. On behalf of the delegates who attended this educator’s conference, I would like to thank everybody involved with the schoolhouse for setting these activities up.