AIYP 2016 has begun!

The AIYP 2016 spring session has begun!

30 eager and enthusiastic students took part in our orientation session, held at Ansan University last Saturday. Here there were informed about the 3 month program, introduced to their team members and took part in a get-to-know/ ice breaking session.

After the individual Google + accounts were created, each team chose their respective leaders and began planning and preparation for their main UCC missions.

Next on the schedule: Culture gift prep Thursday @ Ansan University!

2015 A.I.Y.P. VIDEO

Welcome to Ansan!! Ansan Central Library, Lake Park

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Content Creation 3

This evening our CA team met for our third Content Creation session. The teams were hard at work, editing their video footage and planning their final presentations for city hall officials and AHEV staff coming up in a few weeks.

International Geocaching Day

On a chilly but beautiful Saturday afternoon at Ansan Lake Park, our CA took part in our International Geocaching Day. At 1pm, our students began the hunt for 8 caches hidden throughout the park.


Each cache contained a small gift from NZ and a partial picture of an international cultural monument. After the each cache was discovered, the teams had to figure out which monument was depicted in order to recieve the GPS coordinates for the next cache.


While our CA team were seaching for the stashes, we were also receiving updates on our Google + community from our Kiwi students. They too were taking part in a series of tasks, such as learning how to say "hello" in Korean or drawing the Korean flag.


After all eight caches were found, each member of our CA team was rewarded with a gift bag containing cultural items and snacks from New Zealand, sent by the students and teachers that have been participating in our programme. The Kiwi students were also sucessful and were able to open their culture caches too. With Koreans and New Zealanders interacting and our honorary Russian AIYP CA Olga helping out, it really was a multicultural day!

UNESCO Lecture

This evening the Cultural Ambassadors took part in a special Lecture from Lee Song Mu, the Team Leader of Education at the UNESCO Peace Village, here at Ansan University.


The students were introduced to the concepts of Global Citizenship and the issues that organisations, such as the UN, are faced with. They were also engaged in discussion involving the UN Millenium Development Goals.

Content Creation 2

After a long break due to midterms, the CA team met, once again, at Ansan Unversity for their second Content Creation session.


The majority of the students had already finished and uploaded their introduction videos to our Google + community page and had begun shooting video content for their team projects. The students were able to begin editing some of the footage and had time for further idea development discussion.