Earlier this summer, we made the difficult decision to postpone our 2021 service trip to Taiwan due to the rise of COVID-19 cases in Taiwan. The decision to postpone our service trip to the next summer means that our current members will participate in Connexpedition 2021 “in reverse”, with the online tutoring sessions occurring this school year, from October 2021 to May 2022, before the trip in July 2022. We are now recruiting new members to join current members as we continue the 2021 program!

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Apply Now to Join Connexpedition 2021

Joining Connexpedition 2021 now means that you will tutor New Taipei City students online from October 2021 through May 2022. You will be paired with another Connexpedition member and take turns leading the online tutoring sessions each week. There are 17 sessions total and each session is approximately 50-minutes long. Taking turns means you will only go online about once every two weeks.

In March of 2022, we will begin a hybrid online and in-person training series to prepare for the service trip to Taiwan in the summer. Volunteers will create and host a 2-week English language summer camp for students in New Taipei City in July 2022. Learn more about the trip here.

Normally, the online service follows the summer trip, but as 2021 members will have already completed the 17 tutoring sessions before the trip, their volunteer obligations end right after the two-week long summer camp in Taiwan. All volunteers will receive the President’s Volunteer Service Award (Gold Level) in October 2022.

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There are only a handful of spots left to fill, so please email us (connexpedition@wceo.org) as soon as possible if you are interested in joining our program now. There will be a short screening and interview process to make sure you are a good fit for our program and the online classes will begin immediately after.

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Connexpedition 2021 Dates and DetailS

Cost for the entire program (October 2021 through July 2022): $525.00
Program fees to be paid by the end of October after acceptance into the program.
Program fees do not include airfare to and from Taiwan.

Prerequisites: Currently enrolled in 9th-12th grade and can speak both English and Mandarin Chinese

The online classes for the first half of the school year have already been scheduled. Members will be assigned a partner and a day of the week for online classes.

Volunteer Training Session
October 10, 2021 3:00pm to 6:00pm

Online Classes Week 0 (W0)
Week of October 17

Online Classes W1
Week of October 24

Online Classes W2
Week of November 7

Online Classes W3
Week of November 14

Online Classes W4
Week of November 28

Online Classes W5
Week of December 5

Online Classes W6
Week of December 12

Online Classes W7
Week of January 2

Online Classes W8-W16 will resume after the Lunar New Year break in 2022

Member Training and Service Trip Preparation
8 hybrid online and in-person sessions from March 2022 through June 2022

Service Trip*
Depart from the United States - June 30, 2022
Meet in Taiwan - July 1, 2022
Two weeks of English camp - July 4 through July 15, 2022
End of program - July 16, 2022

*Assumes no quarantine in Taiwan