2003 California Launch was a huge success!
Seventeen teachers from seven counties in So Cal brought enthusiasm and expertise to a two-day summit training at USC in August 2003.
  CALIS support of IES

 

 

The Japan team, Jerri Chutuk (LAUSD) & Patricia Harrison (El Segundo),
with Dick Drobnick, CIBEAR Director and host here at USC.

  

Tom Waldman, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco,
with Chris Kleibacker, Chino Valley USD.

  
         
 

Rick Sylvester, Perris Union District in Riverside County,
and Yvette Wright, Burroughs High in Burbank USD,
are hard at work with a strategic plan for France.

  

Rose Molina, Huntington Beach District, represents Sweden
and presents IES instructor Jody Hoff with a Nobel Prize in Economics.

  
               
    Oscar Salas,
Banning High in LAUSD,
represents Costa Rica in negotiating a trade alliance with Vietnam representative Julie Edwards from Patrick Henry High in San Diego USD.		     France and Uganda representatives trade goods in an effort to raise the standard of living in their countries.

Yvette Wright, Burroughs High in Burbank USD, and Leticia Mercado, Banning High in LAUSD.
           
 

Dick Drobnick has a look at a strategic plan for Mexico by Sid Craighead, Avenal High in Kings County.
Deborah Holcomb (left), Nelles High with California Youth Authority, checks her plan for India.
Paul Belgum (right), Pacific High in Ventura, reviews the plan for Sweden.

    

Sheri Lira, Glendale Adventist Academy,
makes a sales pitch for her yard sale item
during the opening activity.
  In the trade session, countries within a trade alliance do not pay tariffs. First World (or developed) countries must provide foreign aid to Third World (developing) countries.  
 

Oscar Salas and Glen Hutloff, Banning and Belmont in LAUSD,
represent Costa Rica and Turkey.

  

José Nuñez of Belmont High in LAUSD represents Australia.

  
 

Country representatives must purchase internal improvements in health, education,
and infrastructure to raise the standard of living.

Tamara Hoffman (right) of Los Angeles High represents
Cambodia during alliance session.

  
         
  Jeff Signer, San Clemente High in Capistrano USD, represents Egypt in the trade issues debate.
A limited number of issues are selected among those presented by participating countries. Representatives negotiate which will be the priority issues for the debate session.		  

Out-of-towners along with some of the locals had a team dinner
at the Empress Pavilion in Chinatown.
The opening yard sale activity introduces dynamics of voluntary trade.
  As teachers experienced in the training, negotiation skills are a big part of the culminating student summit simulation.
After the August training, teachers implemented the 10-week curriculum during the Fall 2003 semester with all of their economics classes. They conducted mini-summits at their schools and then brought a limited number of teams to the joint summit at USC on December 11, 2003.		  
 
     
 

special thanks for generous support from

Bank of the West

Comerica Bank

Wells Fargo Bank

USC Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBEAR)

and support of the

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Idaho Council on Economic Education

USC Center for Active Learning in International Studies (CALIS)
A regional site of the California International Studies Project

California Trade Education Center
The education program of the California Council for International Trade

  

CALIS is a joint project of the East Asian Studies Center (EASC) and the School of International Relations (SIR) at the University of Southern California