National Taitung Girls’ Senior High School this month held the Ministry of Education’s summer arts camp promoting ocean conservation and creative arts, the ministry said on Sunday.
To educate students in ocean literacy and arts creativity, the ministry commissioned the high school to organize this year’s Marine Aesthetics Summer Camp, the ministry said in a news release.
Students from arts classes and design-related departments of senior high schools or vocational schools, as well as those who are interested in art and creative work, were selected to participate in the camp, it said.
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This year, the camp revolved around the themes of “ocean competency” and “ocean issues,” and was led by the high school in collaboration with the Taitung Tangchang Cultural Area, the Coast Guard Administration’s Eastern Branch and other agencies, with 50 students from 13 senior high schools and vocational schools participating, the ministry said.
The National Taitung Girls’ Senior High School, adhering to its mission of “To Understand, Love and Get Close to the Ocean,” provided various off-campus activities during the camp for students to explore different aspects of the ocean, it said.
For example, the program collaborated with local indigenous cultural-creative studios to teach students to bake glass beads and make driftwood creations.
In another event, the students visited a fish market at Chenggong Fishing Port in Taitung County’s Chenggong Township (成功) and learned about the coast guard’s local inspection office and its intelligence work and coastal patrol duties, while coast guard dogs from Hualien County also demonstrated their daily routines, the ministry said.
The high school also arranged for students to go on a whale-watching trip in continuance of the camp’s tradition, with retired National Cheng Kung Commercial and Aquaculture Senior Vocational High School library director Tsai An-tai (蔡安泰) joining them to explain the habits of whales and dolphins living in and around Taiwan’s waters, as well as the characteristics of local sea currents, it said.
Students visited the Fisheries Research Institute’s Eastern Fishery Research Center to learn about marine ecosystems in a guided tour, it said.
In addition to first-hand experiences with different aspects of the ocean, the students also attended creative arts courses, in which they took apart and reassembled marine debris to create artistic works, it said.
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