CONCORDIA NEWS October

2013

Concordia students celebrate the Moon Festival in traditional Vietnamese Ao Dais.

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Vietnam’s first-ever Google Summit was held on the Concordia campus...and completely sold out! Take a look at how this great weekend went...

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Clashing symbols and beating drums marked the culmination of the harvest season in Vietnam as our foreign language department showed the school how to celebrate in style!

VIETNAM’S FIRST EVER GOOGLE SUMMIT

A SOLD-OUT SUMMIT

Vietnam witnessed its very first Google Summit on Education this past September and all the fantastic action took place on the Concordia Hanoi campus. Representatives from over 20 schools, NGOs, and companies, including Google of course, came together for a two-day conference to see how Google Apps can be used in Education and every day life. The sold-out conference was an exciting blend of keynote speakers from Google, local expert presenters, and some energy-charged “Slam” presentations from attendees themselves.

A “Google Slam” is a competition where you have 2 minutes to present on any great tips, tricks and secrets relating to Google. One of the winners of the slam, our very own Concordia teacher Ms. Abinader, introduced “Google Goggles,” an app that you can take pictures with and it can tell you information about the picture you just took. This is great when traveling, needing to translate a sign, or if in a restaurant and see a celebrity and are not sure what their name is!

The Summit itself had some of those fun moments built in, but ultimately had the goal to teach educators how to use Google Apps, like Gmail, Google Earth, and Google Drive in the classroom and in schools. The weekend was such a hit that a date has already been set for next year’s summit. If you are in Hanoi on September 20-21, 2014 we would love to have you attend Vietnam’s SECOND Google Summit, right here on the Concordia Hanoi campus.

Pics from top to bottom: Concordia Attendees at the Google Summit, Concordia student volunteers help at the morning registration table, Ms. Mona Abinader delivers her winning “slam”, attendees had a chance to mingle and get to know each other during coffee breaks.

COncordia Basketball Fever!See you at an upcoming game!

October 3 vs. BVIS Royal CityOctober 15 vs. BVIS VincomOctober 19- UNIS TournamentOctober 28 vs. HISOctober 29 vs. UNIS

Check out our basketball website on ConcordNet for more info on games. If you would like to ride the FAN bus from Concordia, make sure to contact the school sec-retary, Ms. Huyen, at least 24 hours before the game.

TET TRUNG THU (MOON FEST) CELEBRATEDA huge THANK YOU to the Concordia foreign language department for the festivities!

HAPPY TET TRUNG THU!

FALL FESTIVAL FUN

October 4Free Dress Day too!

The students are getting excited about the Fall Festival!

A big thank you so much to all of the parents who have

volunteered to run carnival games. For those still wanting

to volunteer, please email Lia Garcia in the Concordia

Communications Office

Students will have a FREE DRESS DAY in which students

are permitted to wear the clothing of their choice (that

has been approved by parents at home first)! Students

may choose to BRING a costume to school to change

into for the carnival after lunch. Since we have many

young students, we ask that students do not wear anything

“scary”. As always, NO TOY WEAPONS are allowed as

part of the costume.

Fishing for prizes and great dress up

Bouncy Castle fun!

Face painting

PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES- OCTOBER 25 We will be sending you an invitation to come to meet with your child’s teachers on October 25th. So that everyone has a chance to meet with the teacher, we will schedule a time period for every family. If you are not able to meet during the assigned time, please work together with your child’s teacher to reschedule. The school will provide Korean, Vietnamese, and Japanese translation for families who need it.

CONCORDIA TEAM FOR THE KOTO BIKE RIDEEvery year, the Concordia Faculty form a cycling team to participate in the KOTO bike ride. We would like to welcome any parents who might be interested in riding to also join the “Team Concordia” for this special event. Please contact Lia Garcia in the Communications office for more details.

To share an event in the next newsletter, please contact Lia Garcia at communications@concordiahanoi.org

OCTOBER EVENTS:

Last Day of Session 1 After School Activities

MS Girls & Boys Basketball Game vs. BVIS Royal City/ Scouts

Concordia FALL FESTIVAL!

Fall break (No School) - Enjoy the Holiday!

MS Girls & Boys Game vs. BVIS Vincom- GO CONCORDIA!

Boys and Girls Scouts at Concordia

PSO Coffee Morning at the Museum of Ethnology- please register

MS Basketball Touranaments at UNIS- GO CONCORDIA!

Session 2 ASAs begin

Enf of First Quarter

Parent Teacher Conferences

MS Girls & Boys vs. HIS- GO CONCORDIA!

MS Girls & Boys vs. UNIS- GO CONCORDIA!/ ASAs

Hanoi Schools Soccer Day

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