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Shenzhen American International School (SAIS, ) is an American international school in
Shekou
Shekou () is an area at the southern tip of Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, Guangdong Province, China. It faces Yuen Long, Hong Kong across the Deep Bay, China, Shenzhen Bay. It has been designated as a free-t ...
,
Nanshan District,
Shenzhen
Shenzhen (; ; ; ), also historically known as Sham Chun, is a major sub-provincial city and one of the special economic zones of China. The city is located on the east bank of the Pearl River estuary on the central coast of southern province ...
,
Guangdong
Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...
,
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
.
SAIS is a PreK-8 school that uses PBL (
Project Based Learning
Project-based learning (PBL) is a student-centered pedagogy that involves a dynamic classroom approach in which it is believed that students acquire a deeper knowledge through active exploration of real-world challenges and problems. Students le ...
) as its teaching philosophy, and is heavily influenced by the
High Tech High charter schools
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in San Diego, the Buck Institute for Education,
Edutopia
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, as well as the
Maker Movement
The maker culture is a contemporary subculture representing a technology-based extension of DIY culture that intersects with hardware-oriented parts of hacker culture and revels in the creation of new devices as well as tinkering with existing on ...
in general.
SAIS hosts a school
Maker Faire
Maker Faire is a convention of do it yourself aka-DIY enthusiasts started by ''Make'' magazine in 2006. Participants come from a wide variety of interests, such as robotics, 3D printing, computers, arts and crafts, and hacker culture.
History
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every November, has one of Shekou's first school
makerspaces
A hackerspace (also referred to as a hacklab, hackspace, or makerspace) is a community-operated, often "not for profit" ( 501(c)(3) in the United States), workspace where people with common interests, such as computers, machining, technology, ...
(MakerSAIS), and mounts an Exhibition of Learning each spring.
it is one of eight schools in Shenzhen designated for children of foreign workers. Initially a China campus of
Lee Academy of
Maine
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, it was approved by the
Ministry of Education of China
The Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China is a cabinet-level department under the State Council responsible for basic education, vocational education, higher education, and other educational affairs across the country. The Min ...
in 2005. Due to issues regarding land, by 2008 it had not yet been built.
It was originally in another location in Nanshan District. The school opened in its current Shekou location in January 2014.
[Welcome to SAIS]
" Shenzhen American International School. Retrieved on March 22, 2015.
See also
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Americans in China
Americans in China ( Chinese: 在華美國人; Pinyin: zài huá měiguó rén) are expatriates and immigrants from the United States as well as their locally born descendants. Estimates range from 72,000 (excluding Hong Kong and Macau) to
Estim ...
*
Education in Shenzhen In 2009, there were 974 preschool educational institutions in Shenzhen, a city in Guangdong, China: 346 elementary schools with 589,500 students, 285 primary and secondary schools with 316,000 students, and 20 secondary vocational schools with 4 ...
References
External links
Shenzhen American International School*
American international schools in China
International schools in Shenzhen
Private schools in Guangdong
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