World Languages Day 2017 Information

Questions and Concerns and Emergency Contact:

Mollie Hand, 307-766-4177 | 307-399-9715 (cell)

Friday Schedule 3:30-4:10 Registration in Country Groups UW Education Auditorium4:10-4:40 Admissions Talk UW Education Auditorium4:40-5:00 Form Country Groups including Teachers Auditorium/Lobby

Countries form two giant groups5:00-5:45 Group I and II: Dinner Washakie Dining Hall

Group III and IV: Campus Tour Campus, end at Washakie5:45-6:30 Group I and II: Campus Tour Campus, end Lab School Gym

Group III and IV: Dinner Washakie Dining Hall6:30-9:00 Teachers Appreciation Dessert Social O’Dwyer’s 1622 E. Grand Ave.

Student After Dinner Program in five rotations UW Planetarium6:30-7:05; 7:10-7:40 Classroom Building Rooms7:45-8:20; 8:25-9:00

9:00-9:30

Campus Tour/Admissions Talk Please arrive at the Education Auditorium by 3:30pm. Bus drop-off points are marked on the “Campus Map.” Buses should be able to park behind the Union after 5pm for free.

If you are in Group I or II, please find your “Country Guide” at the back of the auditorium and check in. Once the groups are complete, you will leave for your dinner and tour. After your campus tour, you will return to the auditorium. Teachers may separate from students at this point.

If you are in Group III or IV, please find your “Country Guide” toward the front of the auditorium, check in, and leave for your tour and dinner. After dinner, you will return to the auditorium. Teachers may separate from students at this point.

All students and their instructors are placed in Country groups according to language. The Country Guides and Helpers are UW Students Volunteers. Each Country will have 2-4 student volunteers to chaperone your students throughout the Friday and Saturday programs. Your Country group designations, Country Guides and Helpers are attached to this email. When you check in, please give your Country Guide your cell phone number in case of emergency later in the evening.

Teacher and Student Dinner The dinner will be at Washakie Dining Hall. Teachers will accompany students for dinner, and the Country Guides and Helpers will escort you from the Education Building/the end of the tour to Washakie.

Teacher Appreciation Dessert Social We want to celebrate the reason we can even have a World Languages Day by celebrating you, the teachers! The Teacher Appreciation Dessert Social will be at O’Dwyers Public House, 1622 E. Grand Avenue. It is within walking distance, just across the street from Washakie, and you are welcome to join us after your dinner at Washakie. Any alcoholic beverages need to be purchased by consumer. The Department of Modern and Classical Languages will supply desserts and soft drinks. Student After-Dinner Program After dinner and tours, your students will be escorted to the Classroom Building area by your Country Guide and Helpers. There, they will rotate between one of five language or cultural activities: a planetarium show featuring the 2017 Solar Eclipse and Festivals associated with it; a Tai Chi lesson; a Lion Dance workshop; Andean Instrument experience; and a language scavenger hunt. Overnight at Lab School No schools have registered to reserve the Lab School Gymnasium for overnight stay. Contact Mollie if this is in error. Here is info regarding the possibility: The gym and the cafeteria of the Lab School (in the Education Building) are reserved for overnighting. There are a number of gymnastics mats folded up by the climbing net in the gym, as well as several very large foam mats strapped to the to the North wall. Any guests are welcome to make themselves comfortable with their sleeping bags on those. Since there are no showers in the building, you and your students may use the showers at HalfAcre (see map). Showers and towels will be available from 6-8am.

Saturday Schedule

Pancake Breakfast 7:30-9:00 Ed Annex Lounge & 207 Saturday Registration 8:00-9:00 Lab School Gym (ED)Language & Resource Fair 8:00-11:00 Lab School Gym (ED)Introductions 9:00-9:30 ED Auditorium Competitions 9:30-11:00 Ed Annex Lunch and Entertainment 11:00-11:45 Wyo Union Skylight Lounge

(lower level) Language Workshops 11:45-2:30 Ed AnnexAward Ceremony & Entertainment

2:30-3:00 ED Auditorium

Pancake Breakfast A Pancake Breakfast is being provided from 7:30-9:00. The Kiwanis Club generously donated the grill, and student interns are doing the flipping. It will be served in the Ed Annex (see map). Breakfast is provided to volunteers and schools staying in accommodations that do not offer breakfast as first priority. Bus drop-off points are marked on the “Campus Map.” Buses should be able to park behind the Union on Saturday for free (see map).

Registration, Goodie Bags, and T-Shirts Friday: ED Auditorium. Saturday: ED Gym (see map). You and your students will receive your T-shirts, name tags, and goodie bags from your Country Guides. Saturday guests should meet in the center of the Lab School Gymnasium to meet your Country Guides representing Kiribati. Students who registered Friday should wear their T-Shirts for Saturday events. Language & Resource Fair ED Gym, 8AM-11AM. You and your students will have time throughout the day to visit the Language & Resource Fair. There will be representatives from various departments and organizations around the University of Wyoming. Competitions The competitions will be held in the Ed Annex (see map). All competitions will be organized according to language and held in ascending order of levels (i.e. level 1, then 2, etc.). Because of the large number of Spanish and French competition entries, the Spanish competition will be held in mixed groups, but still in ascending order of levels within each group. Organizing the event this way can help the younger students feel motivated to continue learning and demonstrate to the more advanced students how far they have come. Lunch Lunch will be provided in the Wyoming Union Skylight Lounge (lower level). UW Catering will supply lunch boxes and Ian Caldron and his group will provide entertainment of Andean music. Language Workshops This year we have two plus hours of Language Workshops hosted by UW Faculty. Each group of students along with their “Country Guide” will begin at a specified workshop and rotate among the offered languages: Arabic, Arapaho, Chinese, French, German, Haitian, Hebrew, Japanese, Latin, Russian, and Spanish. Student programs will function as “passports.” When they attend a Workshop or visit the Language & Resource Fair, they will receive a stamp in their program. Award Ceremony We will close out the day’s events with an Award Ceremony celebrating your students and celebrating you! We will try to keep this ceremony short and sweet yet memorable for the competitors and participants alike.

Country Assignments:Note: Friday night events will incorporate the combination of two countries. Saturday students will be either in Austria (German students) or Kiribati (French/Spanish).

Austria: Campbell County German students and teachersLaramie High School German students and teacher

Belgium: Rock Springs French students and teachersCody High School French students and teachers

Congo: CY MS students and teachersEvanston MS/HS students of Melody Barnett

Dominican Republic:

Campbell County students of Renee Fritzen and Diana Gonzalez (teacher)Mario Montano, Sheridan High School teacher

Ecuador: Campbell County students of Jaime Basham and teacherSundance Secondary students of Amy Soriano and teacher

Finland: Guernsey Sunrise students and teacherCampbell County students of Mark MaShoshoni High School students and teachers

Georgia: Davis MS students of Courtnie Link and teacher

Honduras: Evanston MS students of Amy Velasquez and teacher

Indonesia: Rock Springs students of Schreurs and teacher

Japan: Farson High School students and teachers

Kiribati: Cheyenne East High School students and teachersLaramie High School French and Spanish students and teachers

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