Preparing for the Apple Orchard Thailand presentation at the Leadership EARCOS Conference in Bangkok - Thailand

The following 15 MS students from ISB will be absent from school on Friday, November 1st 2013 as they will be presenting at the EARCOS Leadership Conference at the Shangri-La Hotel. They are part of the Apple Orchard Project in Thailand, technology advocates who will be showcasing, modelling and speaking out with a credible voice to school leaders on creating and articulating a vision for connected, personalised learning.

These students have spent two Saturdays working hard from 9 - 4 PM (Sep 28th and Oct 19th) to prepare for this week's conference. If you see them, please commend their hard work and wish them the best when facing school leaders from top schools in East Asia this Friday. Other students will also be representing NIST and Harrow International School.

Participants:

1. Kaizad WADIA
2. Hokeun CHOI
3. Xuanfan LOO
4. Sarah GERBER
5. Ashka ABRARRIADI
6. Matthew ALDEA
7. Podsawee LIMSUWANNAROT
8. Chacriya SEREEYOTHIN
9. Chawin VORAKULSATHIEN
10. Ghazy AZIZ
11. Taratit YENSUANG
12. Thantham MADAN
13. Jatearoon BOONDICHARERN
14. Michael MCKEEN
15. Grayson HEATH

Thanks for your hard work!

In preparation for the Apple Orchard Thailand presentation at the Leadership EARCOS Conference in Bangkok, I'm still looking for some answers to the following questions:

• Will Apple be providing the transportation to the Hotel and back to school?
• Will there be dongles for students that will be taking their MacBook Pros (from ISB)?
• Is it okay to assume that kids can leave the hotel to go back to school by 1:30 PM? FYI, there is a party for MS kids at ISB at 3 PM.

About the groups and presentations, I believe your idea can work. However, I feel that we could have done a better job with those 4 groups that you referred to as weak. Some groups did not get the timely expert guidance that they were told they would get. Yes, I know they are kids and they dream things and think that everything is easy.

There were two groups of boys that I feel were left with little direction. Fortunately one ended up mixing with the Minecraft group of girls. The other group of boys that is doing programming have not taken off yet. I'll try to see them this week and see what we can do together.

Thanks Jane and Apple team for supporting. Thanks to my fellow colleagues from NIST and Harrow for their excellent coaching.

I look forward to seeing you all on Friday. We only have 4 days to go.