CYCU Overseas IT Volunteers Provide Teachers and Students of Thailand With Technological Roaming

National Education Radio 2017/01/02 20:25 (19 hours ago)

CYCU sends multiple overseas volunteer groups to provide services in different countries each year. Among the other things, Thailand service group has been led by the students of Department of Information Management to introduce the latest IT technology to Thailand for 4 years consecutively, in order to have the local teachers and students learn the latest technology. What impressed CYCU students the most is that the teachers and students of Thailand lacked many resources, except the motive to learn which Taiwanese students didn’t have.

CYCU overseas volunteer service group has headed for Khon Kaen City in the north east side of Thailand for the fourth time in summer vacation of 2016. It organized the “IT Seeds Training Camp” in nine schools in two weeks to share the latest application and technology about mechanical arm and mobile phone with the teachers and students of CAS and other schools.

The students of CYCU Graduate School of Information Management, Lan Wen-Tsen and Liu Yi-Liang, served as the overseas volunteers for the first time. According to them, even if they have planned 4 major topic programs, they still had much trouble after arriving there. The gap in equipment and teachers’ qualifications varied remarkably depending on schools. Sometimes, it took a half of day for them to help repair computers. Lan Wen-Tsen indicated that the local teachers and students didn’t own anything, except their active learning attitude, as no matter if they’re teachers or students, all of them wished to keep what they saw and heard.

Liu Yi-Liang said that the trip to Thailand widened her view and made her introspect the problems about foreign laborers and multi-ethnic cultures.

Both of them were used to working as volunteers in Taiwan. The overseas trip made them widened their views and benefited them a great deal.