CHALLENGE 2020 HOREA SCHOOL CLUJNAPOCA ROMANIA HOREA SCHOOL

CHALLENGE 2020 HOREA SCHOOL CLUJ-NAPOCA, ROMANIA

HOREA SCHOOL, ROMANIA MANAGEMENT TEAM • SILVIA TINICA – HEAD • ERIKA TARKANY - DEPUTY • AGATHA SIRBU - PROJECT COPARTNER • CRISTINA PARLEA – SCHOOL FACULTY, SCHOOL CONTACT

CHALLENGE 2020 PARTNERS • HOREA SCHOOL CLUJ-NAPOCA, ROMANIA • ST. ANDREW’S EPICOPAL SCHOOL RIDGELAND, MS, U. S. A. • PAISA AKHBAR GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL LAHORE, PAKISTAN

NATURAL DISASTERS • Our schools have decided to choose and tackle together one of the 20 global problems mentioned in J. F. RISCHARDS’ s book, HIGH NOON, 20 GLOBAL PROBLEMS, 20 YEARS TO SOLVE THEM.

Romania, a country in the southeast of Europe

Cluj-Napoca, a city in the northwest of Romania, Transylvania county

This is a picture of our school, with the statue of historical figure Horea in front of it.

THIS THE ROMANIAN CHALLENGE 20/20 TEAM HOREA SCHOOL, CLUJ-NAPOCA, ROMANIA 1. Hi! My name is Nadia Al-Sagban I’m a student in the 7 th grade and I am 13 years old. I like listening to music and surfing the net. 2. Hi! My name is Bal Marilena. I am a student in the 7 th grade. I like watching TV and painting. 3. Hey! My name is Bihari Andrei. I am a student in the 7 th grade. I’m 13 years old and I like math, playing football and the computers. 4. Hi! My name is Craciun Paul. I am 13 years old and I’m a student in the 7 th form. I like football very much. 5. Hey! My name is Campean Simona. I am a student in the 7 th grade. I enjoy listening to music, painting and reading. 6. Hello there! I am Larisa Moldovan. I’m really excited about our project <<Challenge 20/20>> 7. Hello! My name is Horon Bianca, I’m a student in the 7 th form. I am 13 years old. I like dancing, playing on the computer and listening to music. 8. Hello folks! My name is Margina Bogdan but you can tell me B-MAN or Mel. I am 13 years old and I’m a student in the 7 th grade. My hobby is playing football.

9. Hello! My name is Timeea Mora. I am 13 years old. I’m a student in the 7 th form. I love painting, dancing and singing. 10. Hello! My name is Paula Suciu. I’m a student in the 7 th grade. I’m 14 years old. I like surfing the net 11. Hello! My name is Razvan Duma. I am 13 years old. I am a student in the 7 th form and I am very excited about this project. 12. Hi! My name is Carmen Parauan. I am 13 years old. I am a student in the 7 th grade. I like music ! 13. Hi! I’m Timea Racz. I’m a student in the 7 th grade. I like listening to music and watching TV. 14. HIIIII! My name is Paul Kis. I am 13 years old. I am a student in the 7 th grade. I love rollerskating. 15. Hello! My name is Alexandra Radu. I am 14 years old and I am in the 7 th form. I like reading and listening to music. 16. Hello! My name is Groza Paul. I am a student in the 7 th grade, I am 13 years old and I like football. 17. Hey! My name is Vescan Stefan. I’m 13 years old and I am a student in the 7 th grade. I like playing football and watching TV.

18. Hello! My name is Diana Sigarteu. I am 14 years old and I am a student in the 7 th form. I like painting and singing. 19. Hey! My name is Donose Raul. I’m a student in the 7 th grade. I am 13 years old and I like playing on the computer. 20. Hi! My name is Marcu Darius. I am 13 years old and I am a student in the 7 th grade. I love playing football!!!!! 21. HI! My name is Puscas Bianca. I am 13 years old and I am a student in the 7 th form. I like listening to music and watching TV. 22. Hi! My name is Pop Andrei-Dan. I am a student in the 7 th grade. I am 13 years old and I like playing football and hanging out with my friends. 23. Hello! My name is Stoica Oliviu Ionut. You can tell me Johnny. I`m a student in 7 th form. I`m 13 years old. My hobbys are computers and listening to music. 24. Hi! My name is Katona Arpad. I’m 13 years old. I’m a student in the 7 th grade. I love music (ROCK). 25. Hey there! Wusssuup? ? My name is Sulici Andrei. I’m a student in the 7 th form and I REALLY like computers and surfing the net. 26. Hi! My name is Lugigan Flavia. I like listening to music and drawing, very much. I am 13 years old and I’m in the 7 th grade.

• 27. Hello! My name is Rus Paul. I’m 13 years old and I’m in the 7 th grade. Ilove listening to music and playing on the computer. • 28. Hello, Hello! My name is Dan Tudor. I am a student in the 7 th form. I like playing football and the computers, too. • 29. Hi! My name is Radu Dobre! I’m a student in the 8 th form and I’m 15 years old. I like football very much and listening to music! • 30. Hello! My name’s Rus Claudiu! I’m a student in the 8 th form and I’m 14 years old. I like football and listening to music! I also like playing on the computer. • 31. Hi there! My name is Mircean Georgiana, I’m a student in the 8 th form and I’m 14 years old. I like painting! • 32. Helloo! My name is Golban Ruxi and I’m 15 years old. I’m a student in the 8 th form. I like music, I like to play different sports too. • 33. Hello! My name is Rad Madalina and I’m 14 years old. I’m a student in the 8 th form. I like music, especially rock and I like sports too. • 34. Hi! My name is Stefan Paul and I’m 14 years old. I’m a student in the 8 th form. I like listening to music and playing the guitar. • 35. Hello this is Pol Andrei Bogdan and I’m 14 years old. I’m a student in the 8 th form. My hobbies are playing on the computer, watching tv and listening to music.

And we are: CRISTINA PARLEA and AGATHA SIRBU, their English teachers, the coordinators of the Challenge 20/20 project. SILVIA TINICA, HEAD OF THE SCHOOL WE ARE ALL VERY HAPPY TO BE YOUR PARTNERS IN THIS PROJECT!

A lecture on Natural Disasters 23 rd November 2006 • Nicoleta Brisan, lecturer Ph. D from the Faculty of Environmental Sciences had a session of communication concerning causes and effects of Natural Disasters, from a professional’s point of view.

A lecture on different types of risks 23 rd November 2006 Mr. DOBRE , from the Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, Cluj-Napoca, discussed with the children different types of risks: • Natural: fires, earthquakes, floods, landslides • Biological: epidemics • Industrial: pollution

PROJECTS OF THE CHILDREN • The children were divided into small work groups and they worked together to produce the following posters.

LANDSLIDES th 7 grade GROUP MEMBERS: • Duma Razvan • Donose Raul • Margina Bogdan • Vescan Stefan

FIRES th 7 grade GROUP MEMBERS: • Kis Paul • Marcu Darius • Pop Andrei • Rus Paul • Stoica Ionut

FLOODS th 7 grade GROUP MEMBERS: • Bal Marilena • Moldovan Larisa • Mora Timea • Sigarteu Diana • Suciu Paula

EARTHQUAKES th 7 grade GROUP MEMBERS: • Al-Sagban Nadia • Cimpian Simona • Horon Oana • Lugigan Flavia • Puscas Bianca • Racz Timea • Radu Alexandra

VOLCANOES GROUP MEMBERS: • Bihari Andrei • Dan Tudor • Groza Paul • Katona Arpad • Sulici Andrei

EXPLOSIONS th 8 grade GROUP MEMBERS • Cristoltean Bianca • Cristoltean Diana • Neamt Teodora • Rad Madalina • Stirbe Roxana

LAND ERROSION th 8 grade GROUP MEMBERS: • Mircean Georgiana • Pop Elena • Rus Oana • Salagean Vladimir

FLOODS th 8 grade GROUP MEMBERS: • Coroiu Bogdan • Deaj Marian • Pol Bogdan • Stefan Paul • Voda Stefan

FOREST FIRES th 8 grade • • • GROUP MEMBERS: Chis George Dobre Radu Goga Eusebiu Pop Sorin Rus Claudiu

EARTHQUAKES th 8 grade GROUP MEMBERS: • Golban Ruxandra • Mic Flavia • Rus Luminita • Vadana Lorena

POSTERS GALLERY • ON THE CORRIDORS OF OUR SCHOOL THERE IS A POSTER GALLERY

TEACHERS’ TESTIMONIALS HERE A FEW IMPRESSIONS OF THE TEACHERS INVOLVED IN THIS P 0 ROJECT

What Benefits I see from this projects? For the students: talking about themes of interest for their age and develop sensitivity for suffering-suffering of the others. Also, working in teams for small projects they develop interpersonal skills For the teachers: develop cooperation between them and abilities for partnership in the community. For the school: a sense of being a part of the world that transcend the border of our school, our country and Europe, a responsible part for finding solution to the problems that affect global society. We are glad to have a chance of being part of the communication network about. world problems: awareness about consequences of our behavior. SILVIA TINICA, Head of Horea School, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

This project seemed to be very interesting from the very beginning for both for pupils and for teachers. Our planet and the environment has suffered a lot of changes and destructions during the ages. Everybody heard about natural disasters, but we weren’t really interested in them. Working in this project is a good opportunity to learn more about them, to teach children how to avoid them or to try to protect the environment and the people as well, and to see what is really going on during an earthquake or a flood. . The children really enjoyed the courses about disasters and how to avoid them. The group work on these subjects make them think about these problems and find out more and more information, and why not a solution in the future! AGATHA SIRBU, copartner of the project, Horea School, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

As the faculty of the program I was deeply implied in working with it. It was a challenge for me and I see it first as a personal gain, acquiring and developing my abilities in working within a partnership, enlarging my communicative skills as a team coordinator with students and my colleagues. As far as the topic of the program, we have tackled Natural Disasters. It is very important for us to become aware of the problems that are peeping on us at every step in our lives and to be prepared to handle them in the most appropriate and quickest way possible. It’s a great opportunity for me, my students and my colleagues to work together and to enlarge our perspective from a personal egocentric point of view towards a panoramic worldwide more charitable one. . my problem should become our problems and we should never be alone while dealing with natural disasters that occur in our lives. It’s great getting out of the stereotypes of the learning process, and combining interesting, important, valuable and useful together in one session. CRISTINA PARLEA, school faculty, contact person, Horea School, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

STUDENTS’ TESTIMONIALS HERE ALL THE TESTIMONIALS THAT WE COULD GATHER FROM OUR STUDENTS

• This project is useful for me and for my classmates because it is very important because things, which we have learnt, were very interesting and useful. The activities, which we have seen, were very useful and we have learnt how to prevent the natural disasters. Horon Bianca 7 th grade • I think that working in this project it is a good occasion to improve our knowledge of English but also to know how to make a safe life on Earth. In this project I liked the fires project because I worked in this category. We are partners with other schools which are placed in Pakistan and USA so you can know where there are often natural hazards, too. Stoica Ionut 7 th grade

• I think that working in the project is a good think because we are working with the kids from Pakistan, which are interested in this subject. This Challenge helps us to know many new things about the natural disasters. Al-Sagban Nadia 7 th grade • I think that working in this project is interesting. It is an exciting project and I love it. The contents of this is useful for our knowledge. Bihari Andrei 7 th grade • I think that working in this project is funny and it is a problem which we have to solve. The people have many problems and many difficulties. We are young and we can solve the difficulties. We are very impressed by this project. Duma Razvan 7 th grade

• I think that working in this project helps me to know more about the natural disasters and how to prevent them. It is great because we work with kids from other countries. Radu Alexandra 7 th grade • I think that working in this project is useful for our knowledge and maybe it will be useful for our planet, too. Challenge 2020 is a good project for all its members. All the problems in this project are important and I think we should solve them all. Sulici Andrei 7 th grade • I think that working in this project it’s good thing because it’s developing our capacity of working in a team. It is also good for improving our knowledge about important things. Finally it is an opportunity to show wonderful our school and its students are. I like this project very much. Pop Andrei 7 th grade

• I think that working in this project is very interesting, there a lot of interesting things to learn. I like it very much we have to know all this things to prevent more disaster. Lugigan Flavia 7 th grade • I think that working in this project is extremely useful and all information and our work makes many people optimistic. I like very much to work in the Challenge 2020 project because I love nature. Moldovan Larisa 7 th grade • I think that working in this project is learning new things, it is funny and I can help many people. Vescan Stefan 7 th grade

• I think that working at this project is interesting and I think it’s very nice to help people with this project 2020. In this project we have to prevent people of what might happen. In this project we have the opportunity to help this world, and I think that is great! Parauan Carmen 7 th grade • I think that working in the project it is very important for me. I like the project because I learnt a lot of information about my country and about the 20 global problems. I want to continue this project because I learn a lot of English and I can help my country to prevent these problems or to solve these global problems. Mora Timeea 7 th grade • I think that work in this project is very interesting useful for us. We can learn a lot of things which we can use every day. This disasters are happening very often. Working in this project gives us the opportunity to learn how to prevent and reduce the natural disasters. Puscas Bianca 7 th grade

• I think that working in this project is useful because we can learn about different natural disasters and how we can prevent them. Also I learn how to work in a group. I enjoyed working at this project because it is relaxing and interesting. Rus Paul 7 th grade • I think that woring in this project is a good thing because we learn new things. I would like to talk about the earthquakes more than we done because i`m very interesting in them. I think it`s a very important thing to know how to protect ourselves from natural disasters. Racz Timeea 7 th grade • I think this project is very useful to the world and to us, because we learn a lot of new things. I enjoyed it a lot. Kis Paul 7 th grade

• I think that working in this project is very interesting and I discovered many new things. This project is helping us to prevent the disasters that happen every day. It was a very nice experience. I want more projects like this, because they are very interesting, as nature is very important. Suciu Paula 7 th grade • I think it’s a nice experience and I’ve learned lots of stuff about what should I do when there is a natural disaster. It’s also a nice way to make new friends and see how would other students make the projects on this theme. Mircean Georgiana 8 th grade • We all live in a beautiful world but sometimes disasters appear. This project teach the pupils how to avoid disasters and how to act in case of a disaster. It also helps us to socialize and learn many things about other countries. By showing the pupils how to prevent them, we hope that in the future fewer casualties will be recorded. Pol Bogdan 8 th grade

• This project was something special for us because it contains some things that can save our lives when a danger comes. This project is made by people, pupils and teachers. We talked about floods, forest fire, explosions, earthquakes, landslides and we presented this natural disaster with seriousity and interest. It was something great for us and for the teachers because we found out many important things that can save our life in danger. We made a connection with other students from different countries and we talked about this projects and we were very happy to talk with them on this theme. I’m happy that I was part of this project because it was an important experience for me and for my class mates, and our life will be safer then before, after we learnt new important things. Dobre Radu 8 th grade • It is very interesting to work and talk with people from other countries about disasters which happen all over the world. If something happens around you, you have to now how to act and to find out more new things about natural disasters and how to survive them. Golban Ruxandra 8 th grade

GREAT JOB EVERYONE! WE WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS OUR THANKS N. A. I. S. and Ms. IOANA SUCIU for offering us the opportunity to join and work in this program!