Doors to Diplomacy Participants

Shou-Shan Junior High School (2007 CyberFair Project ID 4999)
Taiwan, Taoyuan
Official Status: Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 3. Business and Community Organizations

We estimate 10 student(s) from 14 to 15 will work on this entry.

Description of Our Community: Guishan sounds like a small place in the mountains. “Gui” means a turtle and “Shan” means mountain in Chinese. However, in fact, it has a convenient communications. It takes less 10 minutes to go to Taoyuan Train Station which is the most prosperous place in Taoyuan. Besides, it is also near the biggest city, Taipei, in Taiwan. Our hometown has great green hills and clear water. Guishan County is located in front of Shoushan Rock Guanyin Temple which is a third grade national place of historic interest, was built in Qing Dynasty(1741). There is a massif like a turtle and is divided into seven villages. One of the villages is called “Rabbit Hole” because there were a lot of hares living here before. The most famous industries are coal mine and making bricks. When the coal mine industry declined in 1960s, the brick industry replaced it. The soil of “Rabbit Hole” village is thick clay which is the best material for making bricks. Making bricks not only brings us a big fortune but also produces huge smog pollution to us. It is big problem how to get a balance between developing economy and protecting surroundings. Now, the main economic activity is Guishan Industry Area. There are many famous companies here, like BenQ, Taiwan Wacoal…etc. These companies give us a lot of working opportunities.

Project Description: Junior high school students are the phase of rapid changing of their bodies, full curiosity about the opposite sex. We hope we can help junior high schools students realize, respect the opposite sex by visiting Taiwan Wacoal which is famous for making underwear. Our project is divided into three parts: oral interviews, local visiting and questionnaire.

Oral interviews: There are three times. The first one was to interview the general manager Zhuan-Yi Chen some knowledge about the bra. The second one was to interview the designer Xiu-Mi Wu more details about how to design the bra. The third one was to interview Min-Cang Hong. He lead us to pay a visit to the bra factory in Guishan Industry Area.

Local visiting: There are two times. One is visiting the bra museum. The other one is visiting Taiwan Wacoal nearby our school. We realize the full procedures of making bras.

Questionnaire: We chose the girls of three classes in our school randomly to realize what questions they will think about before buying the bra, buying the bra and after buying the bra.

During the lunch break every day, we discussed together, communicated with one other to improve the project.

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