Past Activities
Spring 2024: Colombia
Date: Saturday, April 13, 2024
Spring 2024: “Japan: Reflections Through Four Seasons”
Date: Saturday, January 20, 2024
Fall 2023: Walk Through Latin America
Date: Wednesday, September 27, 2023
The OISS’ GREAT Project goes on the road to celebrate International Education Week with partners at the University of St. Thomas (UST).
Rice international graduate and scholar volunteers, along with OISS staff conducted the “Walk Through Latin America” workshop for students in UST’s Pragmatics program in September 2023, and will return in November 2023, as part of our International Education Week (IEW) celebrations, to repeat for more Pragmatics students.
The young adult participants will learn to locate 25 countries in Latin America, and then learn more deeply about four countries representing four regions in Latin America: Mexico (North America), Costa Rica (Central America), Colombia (Los Andes), and Brazil (Southern Cone). The Rice international volunteers and mentors are teaching local young adults with learning and cognitive differences about Portuguese and Spanish, culture, food, biological sciences, geography, etc. Most of all, this upbeat and inspirational workshop creates new connections, friendships and a lot of smiles!
Spring 2023: “India: Colors, Creativity, and Curry”
Date: Saturday, May 13, 2023
Spring 2023: Walk Through Latin America
Date: Saturday, February 11, 2023
Photo by Jeff Fitlow
Fall 2022: Emergency and First Aid Training with REMS
Date: Saturday, October 8, 2022
This training was provided by Rice EMS and the event was supported by international students from Brazil, China, Ecuador, Haiti, and Mexico.
Spring 2022: International Art Share & Art Walk
Date: Saturday, February 12, 2022
Art Walk – GREAT PROJECT Flyer
Spring 2020: Costa Rica – The Land of Beautiful Nature & People
Date: Friday, April 17, 2020
Virtual event hosted via Zoom due to COVID-19.
Spring 2020: Country focus – Ecuador
Date: Saturday, January 25, 2020
Fall 2019: Country focus – China
Date: Saturday, Oct 5, 2019
Summer 2019: Country focus – Brazil
Date: Saturday, June 29, 2019
