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The Ann Arbor student delegation arrived safely in Japan on November 1.
The project directors who are leading the group are Tonya Dildy, a teacher at Angell Elementary School, and Ann Marie Borders, a teacher at Logan Elementary School.
Below you will find the school name as well as the names of and grade of the students who make up the delegation:
Clague: Ronus Hojjati, 8; Aviva Gordon, 8
Skyline: Megan Hendrick, 9; Diana Chen, 9, (both representing Forsythe); Rachael Kerr, 9 (representing Tappan)
Forsythe: Christian O’Keefe, 8
Ann Arbor Open: Oliver Genyk, 8; Maekong Koral-Knighton, 8, Eryn Springstead, 8
Slauson: Chinonye Uche, 8; Maria Torres,
Tappan: Austin Stout, 8;
The delegation will be in Japan until November 13. They will spend one week in Hikone with Japanese host families. During this week they will attend school at local junior high schools. After spending the first week of their visit in Hikone, the student delegation will visit Hiroshima, Miyajima and Kyoto. They will deliver 1000 origami paper cranes, which they all made, to the statue of Sadako in the Peace Park in Hiroshima.
One of the most important outcomes of the student delegation's visit to Hikone is to bring good will to the people of Ann Arbor's Japanese sister city, as they celebrate the 40th anniversary of the sister city relationship between Ann Arbor and Hikone.
This is the sixteenth Ann Arbor student delegation to visit Hikone. In October Hikone sent its thirty-first student delegation to Ann Arbor. |
