スタンフォード近郊情報コミュの[8/28@stanford] Sustainable House Contest

科学技術分野のグローバルリーダーシップ育成団体STeLAでは、
http://web.mit.edu/stela-mit/

今週、スタンフォード大・MIT・東京大・北京大・デルフト工科大らの大学生・院生を中心に世界中から科学技術分野の学生を集めたリーダーシップ育成フォーラムである、STeLA Leadership Forum 2011を開催しております。

そして、その最終日である8月28日に、Stanford Building 550にて、
http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=02-550

「持続可能な家」をテーマにフォーラム中に参加者が作成した展示物の一般発表会を行います。

以下、その詳細となります。ご興味を持って頂けましたら是非ご参加頂ければと思います。

---STeLA Leadership Forum 2011 Sustainable House Contest---

Students in the science and technology field get together in Stanford
from Japan, the US, China and Europe, and they spend 10 days tackling a
lot of challenging tasks together!!
For the last three days of STeLA Leadership Forum 2011, they will face
the most difficult and challenging task, which is Group Project.

In Group Project, students who have different backgrounds will put heads
together and make a sustainable house, exercising all of the leadership
skills they learn in the forum.

They will have a final presentation about their own sustainable house
and their approach to get to them on the final day.

Please join us!! You can see what they learned and achieved through the
forum and how they designed their own sustainable houses as the
culmination of this forum!!

# Summary

Date: Sun, August 28th, 1pm to 5pm
Venue: Stanford Building 550 ( Access Map
http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=02-550 )
Participation Fee: Free
Pre-registration: Not required
Organizer: STeLA (Science and Technology Leadership Association)
( http://web.mit.edu/stela-mit/ )

# Casts

* Speaker
Maoyen Chi:
Dr. Maoyen Chi is the founding CEO of Cold Spring Harbor Asia, a
subsidiary of the New York-based Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL),
which is one of the most famous research and education institution of
molecular biology and genetics.

* Other Judges
Michio Harada:
Deputy consul general, Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco

Peter A. Wieringa:
Professor, Vice rector, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Shigeki Saito:
Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, STeLA Faculty
Advisor

# Detail information about the Group Project

Every year, participants at STeLA take on a difficult but rewarding
challenge: the group project. In small groups, they will experience
working in multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary teams to achieve a common
goal. Additionally, the group project gives participants the chance put
into practice the lessons learned from the leadership and thematic
sessions earlier in the week. This year's group project will take place
at Stanford and will span two and a half days.

In keeping with this year's theme of environmental sustainability and
STeLA's goal of leadership education in Science & Technology, the groups
will be given the task of modeling a sustainable house. The short time
frame and complexity of the project create an environment that is sure
to spur internal conflict, and participants are expected to reassess
their situations, with the help of trained facilitators, to understand
the group dynamics behind their pitfalls and successes. As time
progresses, the groups will also have to adapt to the dynamic
circumstances of the simulation and learn to react when situations change.

The group project culminates with a final presentation, in which groups
will present the model of their sustainable house to a panel of judges
and give a short presentation on what they learned from the activity.
This event will be open to the media, college students and the general
public, to raise awareness about STeLA, its vision and goals and about
environmental sustainability, this year's scientific theme.

Every year the group project is the most widely enjoyed and highly
spoken of aspect of STeLA. The leadership sessions and thematic sessions
build to this two and a half day project, providing participants with
the background knowledge, leadership skill set and communication skills
necessary to complete this daunting task in such a short amount of time.