Maumee Valley Winterim Fair Takes Place November 23, 2010
Annual Winterim Fair Offers Students Opportunity to Share Experiences
Gained Locally and Abroad
Upper School students at Maumee Valley Country Day School have spent the month of November scattered throughout the world. They are enhancing their overall learning experience with intensive study of one subject of their choosing.
Some Maumee Valley students are involved in unique courses on the Maumee Valley campus that are only offered during the school’s focused study program, known as Winterim. Others are experiencing business entrepreneurship throughout the Toledo area. Still others have traveled as far as Mexico, Sweden and even China. No matter their location or the subject matter, each student will come away from his or her Winterim encounter more knowledgeable, culturally aware and experienced.
As part of the Winterim courses, students are required to participate in the Winterim Fair to be held Tuesday, November 23, 2010, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Maumee Valley, 1715 S. Reynolds Road. The public is invited and encouraged to attend Winterim Fair 2010. Students will share their Winterim experiences through presentations, videos, music and more.
Some of the Winterim courses to be highlighted at Maumee Valley’s Winterim Fair include:
* CHINA- Birthplace of the World
Students have the opportunity to experience China’s rich history first hand. Half of the trip is spent visiting major landmarks including the Great Wall, Tiananmen Square, the palace of the Forbidden City and others. The other half is spent living with Chinese families and attending school at Yanshan University Attachment School (Maumee Valley’s sister school) in Qinhuangdao, Toledo’s sister city, which is located on the Bohai Sea east of Beijing.
* La Frontera - The Border-Links Winterim
Students will examine the challenges experienced on the Mexican-American border. Known as, La Frontera, by the people who live nearby, it is a line drawn in the desert that separates countries, cultures, families, and socio-economic worlds of all of the Americas. Students spend the first part of their Winterim on the Maumee Valley campus studying various immigration issues before heading to Arizona and Mexico to witness these issues first hand. Students and guides are hosted by BORDERLINKS, a charity-based educational program that serves the immigrant communities of northern Mexico and Southern Arizona, while in Tucson, as well as Maumee Valley’s sister school, Green Fields Country Day School. Throughout their Winterim experience, students are collecting information and conducting interviews in order to develop a short documentary which will be presented at the Winterim Fair.
* Cooking Essentials and World Cuisine
Participants are spending a month learning to cook; trying new foods; studying the science and art of cooking; visiting local grocers, delis and markets; and, exploring a variety of ethnic cuisines. Students participating in this Winterim will not only master the basics of cooking, but also learn how to whip up gourmet meals – some of which will be prepared and offered at the Winterim Fair.
* Shark Tank: Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Students enrolled in the Shark Tank Winterim are spending the month answering the question: What makes someone an entrepreneur? Experiences include writing and presenting a venture plan to business leaders; touring entrepreneurial start-ups in the Toledo area including COACT, Lesniewicz Associates and the Kitchen Incubator at the Center for Innovative Technology; and participating in entrepreneurial simulations with Bowling Green State University.
* Independent Study at The University of Toledo Medical Center (UTMC)
Maumee Valley students are currently working alongside local physicians and scientists as they seek to find a cure for cancer and diabetes. They are also shadowing physicians in Orthopedics, Sports Medicine and Cardiac Surgery as they observe patient care and procedures.
* Study Abroad in Sala Sweden
Three students have been living with host families and attending the Ekebyskolan high school in Sala, Sweden is offering students the opportunity to take classes and live with host families.
Maumee Valley remains the region’s premier college-prep school. It is the only accredited, co-educational, nonsectarian, independent school in the area and attracts students, Preschool through 12th grade, throughout Northwest Ohio, Southeast Michigan, and internationally. The school enrolls 475 students, including 171 in the Upper School and 40 in the Class of 2010. Of that 481 total, 37 percent are minority students and 14 different religions and 15 cultural backgrounds are represented. Approximately 40 percent of students receive financial aid or scholarships totaling over $1 million. One hundred percent of students are bound for four-year colleges. There are 27 Upper School faculty members, 19 hold master’s degrees and two have earned a Ph.D.
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