2019 U-Motion | Global Competency Plan to a Whole New Level!

As the concept of “global competence” has become a buzzword worldwide, it has called wide attention upon the importance of nurturing youths’ comprehensive qualities such as knowledge scope, technical literacy, social motivations and growth mindset.

IDEASU-MotionCamp is an all-English camp programme tailor-designed foryouths’ personal growth. Immersed in a perse and vibrant environment with the guidance from excellent counselors, campers will learn about a wide range of global issues and nurture the awareness of global citizenship.

7th IDEAS U-Motion Camp ·United World College Changshu China.

Let the journey commence!

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Camp Highlights

1.Design Thinking: Empowerment through changing mindset

U-Motion Design Thinking workshop is jointly designed by IDEAS Camp Education’s R&Dteam in collaboration with professional Design Thinking institute. The workshop combines Experiential Learning principle and design thinking methodology to make the learning experience interactive, challenging and progressive.

The Design Thinking Workshop provides not only highly engaging learning experience but also concrete problem-solving toolkit to campers, with which campers will have the opportunity to design their own service projects that are aimed at tackling real-life social challenges and make positive social changes.

2.Positive peer influence from outstanding counselors

For U-Motion campers who are about to grow into adulthood, a good friend is like a good teacher. The "Peer-to-peer mentorship" experience along with the role modeling effect from outstanding camp counselors will allow campers to experience transformative growth.

Counselors of U-Motion camp come from perse cultural backgrounds and globally prestigious colleges. Their experiences include: organizing arts exhibitions to spark public awareness on minority population, delivering not-for-profit education program for children from low-income family, starting a impactful and sustainable business model ... Counselors will bring positive influence to campers with their personal comprehensive qualitiessuch as empathy, responsibility, creativity and competence.

3.All-English environment & cross-cultural communication

U-Motion is an international community for passionate and visionary youths. Fun and engaging team-building activities spark creativity and build teamwork spirit, helping campers establish a sense of belonging and cohesion to the U-Motion community. A sustainable future requires global participation and engagement, and it all starts from here: cross-cultural collaborations among youths.

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Camp Programme

Starting with self-awarenessand community inclusion, young people who are concerned about global issues will get together to cultivate design thinking mindset through a progressive learning process.

At U-Motion, campers will master problem-solving mindsetandmethods in interconnected and progressive workshops and activities. Discussing and debating global issues, sharing personal stories and practicing social service projects, youths will witness their globally competence gradually activated.

Stage1

Self-awareness& Embracing persity

WorldCafe

World café is an amazing dialogue experience that you will never want to miss. During this night, campers from all over the world will follow interesting dialogue rules to openly communicatewith each other. This Dialogue-themed activity is meant to spark exchange of thoughts and embody the spirit of “harmony in persity”.

Changshu Challenge

At Changshu Challenge, Campers will team up and embark an exploration journey to the Changshu city, to fully experience the history and culture of this ancient city and complete tasks on a challenge list that is designed based on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

Through this journey, campers will practice skills includingcommunication, collaboration, time and energy management to learn about the influential factors to this city’ sustainable development.

Darkness Challenge

Campers’ team will be asked to complete complicated tasks within a limited time in a completely dark environment. Campers will be guided to observe, identify and analyze their emotion changes, improve problem-solving and teamwork skills, and most importantly, nurture empathy for the perse population we interact with in the society.

Stage2

Unleash Potential in a perse Community

Creative Theatre

Facing the many limitations set by the theater director, campers have to use creativity and imagination to put on an excellent performance. This experience will help ignite creativity for campers’ following learning and designing process.

OpenMic

Walk to the center of the stage and celebrate the difference and persity with the U-Motion family. Show your talent and enjoy the cheers!

YushanChallenge

"Whatis above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. " Campers will climb the Yushan mountain and experience the magic in physical challenge. One will only realize the virtue of facing challenge after hands-on experience.

Flash Mob Dance

In Changshu, an ancient city in southern China, young people from all over the world will use street flash mob dance to express themselves. Is it an action of socialization? Or is it performance art? It’s open to your interpretation!

Stage3

Social Awareness and Global Vision

Virtual Reality

Put on the VR helmet and enter the virtual reality to experience the many landscapes on our earth. Science and technology provide us with the opportunity to immerse in a distant world.

UNVR (United Nations Virtual Reality Documentary), jointly produced by the United Nations and various social institutes, takes you to experience the life on the other side of the world and experience for yourself the global challenges, such as environmental pollution, war refugees, lack of educational resources, climate change, etc.

Youth Summit

Taking 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG) as the framework, U-Motion Youth Summit will present campers with perse learning experiences including keynote speeches, panel discussions, thematic debates and parallel workshops, to gain exposure to fields including science and technology, history and philosophy, business models, charity projects, creative arts, gender identity, cross-cultural communication, etc. International counselors and innovation leaders from various industries will share stories and bring new perspectives to inspire motivation in youths.

Stage4

Peer to Peer Mentorship

A-Action Sharing Session

Enlighten your public welfare dream with real stories from peers.

IDEAS not only brings young people onto the U-Motion growth journey, but also provides a platform, the IDEAS A-Action program, for them to realize their dreams. Supported by IDEAS Youth Development Foundation, A-Action advocates and supports young people's social service ideas and projects with professional guidance and financial support, spreading positive contributions to the community and the world.

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Words From Them

Campers

When you say summer camp, what I think is somewhere in a wild and have fun, but over here，you also have fun but in a different form. You also learn a lot of things like communication, collaboration, critical thinking, design thinking.

——Schoorl Archur(Beijing)

Counselors of U-Motion come from different backgrounds, they have different ways of connecting the team together. They help us to maintain our differences while accepting and helping others. This experience helped me build my personality, thoughts and ideas.

——Farah(Palestine)

Thebiggest impact on me were the workshops and the design thinking classes. They really taught me how to view the world and how to live sustainably. Live with my environment and care about my environment, not only about myself .——Nguyen Minh Dang(Vietnam)In design thinking workshop, we have to do research and keep building until we figure out a situation or a project that’s really good and works. I like how we pick one type of SDGs, sustainable goal and we try to solve that by building a project.

——Zachary Stehle Hirsch( USA)

CampCounselors

In U-Motion Camp, we can step out of the stereotypes imposed by others. In this brand new environment, we have the opportunity to build a new ideal identity for ourselves.——Harry(Bowdoin College)

U-Motion gives a platform to youth from different countries and culture getting together. It is a very precious growth experience for themto notice howbig the world is and how brilliant their peers are.——Justin Torres(StanfordUniversity)

In U-Motion Camp, we are encouraged by a variety of people to try new things. By doing this, we are able to identify what we are interested in and passionate about.——Vick(Minerva University)I think for young people the most valuable educational experience isto let them get outside of the campus to broaden their horizons, and explore the world outside of academics.

——Timmin Vooijs(UniversityofAmsterdam)

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Unparalleled Professional Service

About IDEAS

As a professional camp education organization, IDEAS Camp Education has served 80,000+ children from 4 to 18 years old in 10 years with high quality camp education courses and activities. IDEAS Camp Education is the member of the International Camp Fellowship, the American Camp Association, and the International Association of Experiential Education.

Ability Development

IDEAS camp programmes are designed based on the IDEAS Learning Model. This model combines the overall framework of “Core Competencies and Values for Chinese Students” published by the Chinese Education Bureau and the “Core Competencies for the 21st Century”issued by American P21 organization.

At IDEAS Camp,we create real-life scenarios for campers to learn, live, grow and improve 4C abilities (Communication, Collaboration, Creativity, Critical thinking). We want to develop their problem-solving skills so that they can get prepared for the future.

The model fully considers the physical and mental development laws and learning needs of children of different groups. Campers’ growth will be tracked and recorded using professional evaluation system.

Faculty

IDEAS U-Motion Camp program is designed byinternational expertswith cutting-edge global educational concepts and resources.

U-motion'sworkshop instructorsare composed of university professors and industry youth leaders who share experiences and help young people seek their career goals and future development.

Thecamp counselorsare carefully selected from prestigious colleges. They receive top-quality counselor training to ensure the best camp experience for campers.

Campsite

United World College Changshu China

Founded in 1962, the United World College (UWC) has established schools in 17 countries and regions around the world to promote peace and sustainable development.United World College Changshu Chinaprovides experiential learning program for students and encourages them to explore Chinese language and culture, youth leadership and environmental protection.

United World College Changshu Chinacampus is well resourced with highly qualified infrastructure, including modern swimming pool, gym, library, theater, multi-functional classrooms, outdoor fields and indoor rock-climbing site. With UWC campus’ international atmosphere, strict 24-hour security system,and high-standard nutritional meals,campers' health and safety are well guaranteed.

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