#KidsNeedKiwanis: Key Clubber wins Sister Cities scholarship to expand her service impact
Blog originally posted on Kiwanis International Dateline. Click here to view the blog on Medium.Shannon Louie believes every act of kindness is an expression of world peace. “As long as I make an effort to impact others, I have succeeded in making an imprint on world peace,” she said.Louie’s experience earned her a US$700 scholarship from an association within Sister Cities International, a Kiwanis International community partner that advances better alliances to drive global change, improve the lives of children and help communities to thrive around the ...
‘Imagining Tomorrow: H2O’ Challenge Announces Winning Teams
Teams of students from the U.S. and Ghana propose high-scoring solutions to water issues in their communities, with help from expert mentors.
NEW YORK, March 2, 2016— The Imagining Tomorrow: H20 challenge, an initiative of the Global STEM Alliance of the New York Academy of Sciences and partners Sisters Cities International and Sqore, announced two winning student teams, one from the U.S. and one from Ghana. The challenge was developed to encourage students ages 13-17 from around the world to create innovative science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)-focused ...
Sister Cities Chess Partnership Unites Students around the Globe in Intellectual Competition
Blog by Jonathan Plaster, Chairman (Coach) of Atkins Chess club, Atkins High School, Winston-Salem, NC; Sharon Glover, Sister Cities Ambassador for Freeport & Nassau; Shaun & Catia Gittard, Sister Cities Ambassador for Ungheni, Moldova; and Shawn Sorsby (Coach), Bishop Micheal Eldon School, Freeport, Grand Bahama. Click here to view the original post on Medium.Ever since chess was invented around 1,500 years ago, players from around the world have sat across the board from each other to compete on an equal playing field, regardless of age, gender, ...
50 Years of History and Friendship: A Trip to Shizuoka
Blog by Mary D. Kane, President and CEO, Sister Cities International. Click here to view original post on Medium.This November I was extremely privileged to travel to Shizuoka, Japan along with an official delegation from their sister city Omaha, Nebraska. This partnership has a long, complicated, and exciting history, like many sister city partnerships.It all started in 1965 when a group of people in Omaha, Nebraska decided that they should form a sister city relationship with a city in Japan — Shizouka. What makes this partnership interesting and impactful is that ...
![Fumiko and Masahiro Sone. A retired TV executive, Masahiro Sone was a child when Shizuoka was bombed by the U.S. in 1945. [Photo by Michael Kelly/The World Herald]](https://spartanbur.sistercities.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Fumiko-and-Masahiro-Sone.-A-retired-TV-executive-Masahiro-Sone-was-a-child-when-Shizuoka-was-bombed-by-the-U.S.-in-1945..jpg)
Hope Dies Last in a World of Destitute
Blog submitted by Javier Chaney, 2015 U.S.-China Sister Cities Conference Volunteer and Student at the University of Hawaii at Monoa. Click here to view the original post on Medium.The world is becoming a smaller and smaller place. Due to advancements in technology, we are not only as a country, but as a human race, closer than we have ever been to one another. Friends and family members can now converse face to face from opposite sides of the globe instantaneously. An artificial gateway has been developed for all to use. Most importantly, one can empathize with ...
Global Youth Ambassador Highlights
Vlog submitted by Ana Cadillo, Youth Committee Chair, Mesa Sister Cities. Click here to view original post on Medium.Three Youth Ambassador Alumni from Mesa Sister Cities share their exchange experiences from their travels in Burnaby, Canada; Caraz, Peru; Guaymas, Mexico, as well as their experiences hosting students from their sister cities in Mesa, Arizona.For more information on Mesa Sister Cities, visit http://mesasistercities.org.
Students Solve the Refugee Crisis: 2015 Youth Leadership Summit
2015 Youth Leadership Summit Recap
Over 60 high school students from the U.S. and China convened at the 59th Sister Cities International Annual Conference Youth Leadership Summit in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As citizen diplomacy knows no age, the Summit is specifically designed to engage youth around the important role diplomacy plays in helping to create and maintain world peace.
Thursday, July 16
The first day of the summit kicked off with a taste of college life as Student participants unpacked their luggage at the University of Minnesota (UMN) residence ...
Rekindling a 30-Year Sister City Partnership
Story contributed by Karen Anderson, Executive Analyst, Park City Municipal CorporationTwo mountain towns – Park City, Utah and Courchevel, France – though a continent away, have developed a long and storied bond through their sister city program.The cities, both world-renowned ski resort destinations, first developed an alliance in 1984. During that time, Courchevel’s star was rising after having just helped secure the bid for the 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics. Meanwhile, Park City was still a sleepy, funky mountain town just beginning its own rise to internati...
Students Explore Critical Water Issues During 2014 Youth Leadership Summit
2014 Youth Leadership Summit Recap
At the 58th Sister Cities International Annual Conference in San Jose, California, over 100 high school students from the United States, Germany, Japan, China, and South Korea participated in the Youth Leadership Summit.
The Summit was designed to engage youth in the Sister Cities International network while exposing them to important international challenges focused on the theme, Water as a Shared Commodity. The educational G20 simulation provided students with a platform to learn about diplomacy, international relations, critical ...