Step Two: After you have registered your class/students for the fair, you may register them for competitions.  Between competitions and for those not competing there are various student activities.  See below our options for 2017!

Tab #3 above (3. Activity Scheduels) has the links to the Competition Schedules.  Please allow 48 hours for those pages to be manually updated.

Competition Descriptions

 Chinese French German Japanese 
Spanish  Turkish Poster Contest

Student Created Entertainment

Student Created Entertainment Registration

Unfortunately there are only so many allotted time slots. Therefore the entertainment will be scheduled on a first come-first served basis. All performances will be put on in the Ventana Ballroom.

*** This year we will try to have dynamic time slots.  Please let us know of any schedule conflicts that you would like us to work around (i.e.: students arriving after 10am; students competing in a competition during a certain time bracket. etc.) and let us know how long the performance is expected to be.  The time slots tailored to your students' activity will, we hope, allow us to have more student performances.

Drama/theatre: Each school has the opportunity to perform a short play/puppet show in the target language.

Fashion show: Each school has the opportunity to perform a fashion show, by bringing traditional dress from the country (ies) they are representing/studying.

Instrumental performances: Each school has the opportunity to perform traditional instrumental music from the target cultures.

Singing: Each school has the opportunity to perform songs from the target country(ies).

As in previous years, the students will be able to have their name written in calligraphy in Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew, Korean, Greek, and many more languages.

Scavenger Hunt

Between the hours of 9 a.m. and 12pm, the students will have the opportunity to participate in an inter-cultural scavenger hunt. There will be two rooms with language booths containing information about each language and culture. The students will pick up a scavenger hunt worksheet which will contain about 30 questions in all the languages represented by the booths. They will have to figure out in what language each question appears, what the question says, and go to the appropriate booth to find the answer. After 12 pm, all worksheets will be graded and all those with perfect responses will be thrown into a box. We will then draw names for prizes. Prizes will be given out at 1:15-1:30 p.m.

Mini-lessons 

There will be three rooms available for mini lessons, which will run from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Examples of languages from last year are: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. We hope to have even a larger selection this year (e.g., this year we'll have Russian!). Mini-lessons will be 15 minutes with a five-minute passing time and will be on a first come, first served basis.

Dance Lessons - Dance demonstrations are going to be replaced by the fashion show/poster contest for this year only.  Dance demonstrations will resume in 2018.

This year we hope to offer dance sessions from different cultures such as Chinese Lion Dance, flamenco, salsa, and capoeira. These sessions will also be on a first come, first served basis

Karaoke 

Join us for the quintessential of all Japanese entertainments, Karaoke, featuring songs from an international song list in various languages. Teacher Karaoke (9:25 - 10:25 )  Teachers are encourage to join the fun at this karaoke session. The time limit for each performance will be 2.5 to 3 minutes.  Student Karaoke (10:25 - 12:00)  Any student can register on the spot and will be allowed to perform on stage. The time limit for each performance will be 2.5 to 3 minutes.

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