YOUTH REPRESENTATION ON THE I*EARN ASSEMBLY: Youth are currently voting to chose a youth representative for the I*EARN Assembly. To vote see the topic "Election Notice for Youth Representative" on <iearn.youth> until December 25th.
LAWS OF LIFE ESSAY PROJECT: I*EARN-USA and the John Templeton Foundation are sponsoring this international essay project which invites students to reflect on and write about the values that have helped shape their lives.Teacher's Guides are available in English, Russian, Hindi, Chinese and Spanish. You are invited to submit essays up to May 31, 1999. For more information see < iearn.values>.
WORLD SUMMIT OF YOUTH PEACEMAKERS: May 29 - June 1, 1999; Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A. The National Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution sponsors this event. Contact J'Lien Liese <imsi@earthlink.net> or see <http://www.gmu.edu/departments/NCPCR>.
UNITED YOUTH CONFERENCE: July 18-25, 1999; San Francisco State University, U.S.A. Designed as a prototype for a proposed United Nations Youth Assembly, this Conference will bring together Youth Ambassadors from every country possible to design the structure and operations of a Youth Assembly to be permanently established within the UN System. See <http://www.oneday.org>.
TURKEY: See the new website of I*EARN in Turkey: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bridge/4322/
FAMILY STORIES: See all of the wonderful stories being submitted for the Kindred project on on <iearn.family>.
THE EARTH : Our Home project with schools from Argentina, Paraguay, Peru, Mexico, Spain and Russia has a new web page at : <http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/3635/tierra/tierra.html>
WEB PAGES OF I*EARN NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN ROMANIA: See descriptions and photos of the meeting last month in Cluj, Romania. <http://lcjdap.soroscj.ro/IEARN/events/CNI_13-14_1998/>.
MUN E-NEWS: An Electronic Mailing where thousands in the Model U.N. community have the ability to keep in contact with each other on a regular basis. Contact <mun-e-news-owner@egroups.com> or see <http://www.eGroups.com/info/help.html>.
NEW WEB PAGES CREATED BY STUDENTS IN CZECH REPUBLIC: (High School Cesky Krumlov) : <http://vok.gymck.cz/~iearn/>.
RARE ANIMALS IN YOUR COUNTRY!: Contribute to this project for maintaining the ecological stability by protecting the wild animals. See this topic on < iearn.ideas> until 15 May, 1999.
ME AND MY PET: Join Romanian, German, English and French speaking students sharing stories about their pets, a unique way to share personal experiences. See <iearn.kidscan> until June 1, 1999.
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN JAPANESE LANGUAGE?: Terumi Nomoto from Japan is an intern for I*EARN-USA and would like to increase the number of students and teachers in Japan who are using I*EARN. Please contact her if you are interested in a project for students of Japanese, and native Japanese speakers using ROMAJI (written Japanese with English Alphabet). See this topic in < iearn.teachers>.
TURKISH PEN-PALS - New I*EARN students in Turkey would like to correspond with you. See the topic "students e-mail addresses" in <iearn.teachers>.
NATIONAL FLAGS AND EMBLEMS: The aim of this project is to learn more about the 52 countries in I*EARN by creating a Web page, containing information about the meaning of the colours and symbols used in Flags and National Emblems. Contact Valentina Oleinikova in Bulgaria.
J@K 2000: European Youth Academy is still looking for secondary schools for a 2 year cooperation, via Internet and face-to-face meetings of teachers and students. Topic: Intercultural communication with new media. First teacher workshop: March 1999. Teacher/student workshop: autumn 1999. Youth Academy Assembly: April 2000 in Austria! Contact: <alpen-adria-alternativ@carinthia.com>.
1999 SIXTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE TO BE HOSTED BY THE I*EARN ORILLAS CENTER IN PUERTO RICO: July 11-17. For more information contact: <efigueroa@orillas.upr.clu.edu> or <krbrown@iearn.org>.
STATE OF THE WORLD FORUM FOR EMERGING LEADERS: January 28 - 30 1999 in Monterrey, Mexico. See <www.worldforum-mty.org> or write to Jessica Garza at <garzajessica@hotmail.com>.
1999 CONSORTIUM FOR SCHOOL NETWORKING CONFERENCE (CoSN): Feb 24-26, 1999 in Washington, D.C., USA. For more info, contact Keith Krueger (202-466-6296, ext 18) or see <http://www.cosn.org/conference/index.html>.
NAT'L YOUTH CONFERENCE FOR THE HAGUE APPEAL FOR PEACE: April 10 & 11, 1999; Washington, DC, USA. Contact <lorengost@aol.com>.
HAGUE APPEAL FOR PEACE: May 11-16; The Hague, Netherlands. For more information: <http://www.haguepeace.org> or <mailbox@ipb.org>.
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTERS MIRK'99: Slovenia between May 19-21,1999. Call for papers <http://www2.arnes.si/~ljosi8/piranan.html>. Contact <alenka.makuc@guest.arnes.si>.
NECC'99: National Educational Computing Conference to be held June 22-24,1999 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. For more info, call <541.349.7571>; fax <541.302.3781> or write <necc99@ccmail.uoregon.edu> <http://www.neccsite.org/>.
INTERNATIONAL MODEL UNITED NATIONS OF ALKMAAR: From July 9-11, 1999 in Alkmaar, the Netherlands. For more info, contact <frankschmid@hotmail.com> or <imuna@bart.nl> or see <http://www.bart.nl/~imuna>.
SYDNEY 2000: October 2000 in Sydney, Australia. For more information email David Carter at <bairnssec@peg.apc.org>.