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Project Name The Blackboard Project
Objective To Build a solid foundation for the educational environment for minorities

• Project Information

  University	Team	Location
  Guangxi Normal University	36 students	Guangxi Province

• Challenge

  Nowadays, volunteer teaching in rural areas is not an uncommon sight. However, to “left behind” children of ethnic minority groups in Guanxi province, this type of skill-based education is not enough. Their parents are already off working in distant cities, and as minorities the children are left culturally isolated in their villages. What is needed is a more integrated form of education that not only connects the children to the outside world, but also provides a platform for them express themselves.

• Solution

  The Blackboard Project will begin by surveying and understanding the educational environment of ethnic minority children in Guangxi region – their literary levels, material needs, and educational standing relative to other children. Based on this assessment, we will tailor our summer curriculum class, a large part of which will be the launch of a Creative Journal consisting of stories and compositions written by these children. We will also launch a PenPal system to connect these children to college students in Guangxi for long-term relationship development.