Volunteer & Work Experience

Work Experience

Canadian International School Global Issues Network (GIN) Council - Press Secretary

May 2017 - June 2018

The Global Issues Network Council is one of the largest councils at the Canadian International School, and plays an essential role at CIS. It creates opportunities for students to become further involved in helping their community, and it addresses global issues through GIN clubs and GIN events that it organizes. The 2017-2018 GIN Council was made up of 15 students from the intermediate and secondary divisions.

As the Press Secretary, I promoted school-wide and interscholastic GIN events by writing and publishing more than 10 articles on the Canadian International School System’s monthly newspaper, CISS Journey.

Click here to see some of my articles as a Council member!

Throughout the 2017-2018 school year, I successfully assisted fellow council members in organizing and managing 6 GIN events:

CIS NGO Fair 2017,
CIS Junior Leadership Camp 2017,
CIS Christmas Fun Fair 2017,
Saigon GIN Conference 2018,
CIS Art4Action Fair 2018,
CIS GIN Awards 2018.

Volunteer & Community Engagement

CIS Global Issues Network (GIN) Awards 2018 - Co- Organizer

The CIS Global Issues Network Awards is an event that provides a retrospective and celebrates the accomplishments of the school's GIN initiatives throughout the school year. For the GIN Awards of 2018, I was a co-organizer alongside Anna Do (then Co-President of the GIN Council).

I communicated with location managers, kept track of audio equipment usage and organized a slideshow for the event. We successfully hosted 30+ students and teachers involved in the Global Issues Network at CIS and received positive feedback from the guests.

Saigon Global Issues Network Conference at CIS, March 2018 - Global Action Network Groups (GANGs) and PR Coordinator

The Saigon GIN Conference is an annual event held by international schools in Ho Chi Minh City. This 3-day conference is a great opportunity for like-minded students to come together in GANGs (Global Action Network Groups) and discuss, debate as well as propose solutions in a mini-project about the global issues that they are passionate about.

In 2018, the CIS Global Issues Network Council organized the 2018 conference with the theme "Envisioning Arcadia". As a GANG coordinator, I successfully increased the productivity of 33 GANG leaders’ work in the Conference by organizing 4 weekly skill-training sessions.

I also managed information publication on the Conference’s official website (https://ginsaigon2018.wordpress.com/), which helped 300+ interested students and teachers from 16 international schools in Southeast Asia in registration and accommodation-hunting purposes.

CIS Christmas Fun Fair, December 2017 - Knitting/Crocheting Club Booth Manager

The annual CIS Christmas Fun Fair is a fundraising event where clubs at CIS sell products and raise money for charity. At the 2017 Christmas Fun Fair, I was in charge of the Knitting & Crocheting Club's booth; I introduced handmade knit-work to the Fair’s visitors and kept track of products sold from the fundraising booth.

By the end of the 2017 Fair, the sales from the booth successfully contributed to the Fair’s total donation of 30 million Vietnam Dong to local charities and a school-wide fund for a Vietnamese baby’s eye surgery.

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