Five AlphaMax senior students and one past graduate are in China this summer representing Suriname. This is the largest group of students attending a GYLC Conference since AlphaMax started sending representatives in 2007. This is also the first time that our students have chosen to attend the conference in China. Previously our students attended the conferences in the USA and Europe.
The students attending this year’s conference are: Azim King (Class of 2011), Khabir King (Class of 2010), Vinantia Nandlal (Class of 2012), Claire Patandin (Class of 2012), Ruth Saman (Class of 2011) and Kristina Taylor (Class of 2012).
The conference is for ten days from June 28th to July 7th and the students will be in three cities: Beijing, Hangzhou and Shanghai.
The group reported feeling overwhelmed by the size of Beijing Airport, the city and their hotel. A member of the group said, “We thought that our research on China and our previous trips to the US and Europe would have prepared us for this, but as they say, it is one thing to be told about something and another to experience it.”
Photographs of our group appeared on the GYLC site today. Our students will not be doing the add-on sessions in the schedule, but have received a generous gift of a fully paid trip to the city Dalian. This is a gift from the Dalian company which has been building roads in Suriname for the past 10 years. Before the students left Paramaribo on Sunday, June 26th, the Dalian company hosted a dinner for the students, senior administrators, and their parents.
Visit http://www.cylc.org/educ_
Visit http://www.cylc.org/educ_
