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Session

Shared Interest (SI)

Winning Abroad: Skill Building through Play for Inbound/Outbound Students

Tuesday, October 29, 2024
9:00 AM – 9:50 AM EDT
Location: Regency E
Presentation Description: Join our Open Meeting to discover how board games can enhance essential skills and strategies for students studying abroad. Through interactive play, we address challenges like language barriers, academic difficulties, cultural differences, finances, and immigration. This engaging approach offers tools for success, fosters social connections between inbound and outbound students, and supports campus internationalization. Ideal for orientations, admitted student days, and semester kick-offs, this meeting transforms presentations into fun, impactful experiences.

Learning Objectives:

  • Implement Engaging Programming Activities: Participants will gain insights into how to design and implement board game-based activities for student orientations, admitted student days, and semester kick-offs, turning these events into interactive, impactful, and memorable experiences that support campus internationalization.
  • Identify and Analyze Board Games' Role: Participants will be able to identify and analyze how specific board games can be utilized to address challenges faced by students studying abroad, including language barriers, academic difficulties, and cultural differences.
  • Enhance Social Integration and Networking Skills: Attendees will discover techniques to use interactive play as a means of fostering social connections and building relationships between inbound and outbound students, thereby enhancing their ability to integrate into new cultural and academic environments.