Bangkok--25 Dec--Total Quality PR
The State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM (Russia) organized the international children's camp «Rosatom School» on December 2-13 on Phuket. 13 children from Nakhon Nayok Province of Thailand, where Kinetics Corporation Ltd. (Thailand) and The State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM (Russia) have recently launched the joint Cyclotron & Radiopharmaceutical Complex Project, were invited to join the camp. Schoolchildren from seven other countries: Russia, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, Vietnam and the Czech Republic aged from 7 to 17 were encouraged with trips to the camp on the shores of the Andaman Sea. The shift was accompanied by a professional team of Russian teachers, as well as the group leaders.
The major goal of the «Rosatom School» in Thailand was to encourage and develop international communication among children from different nations. There was no official language of the camp; however, all the children were involved in common activities to overcome communications and cultural barriers. The numerous facilities included teambuilding options, the children were also acknowledged with traditions of different nations during games, allowing a deeper understanding of their culture through the contact with others.
The schedule of the camp was quite busy. The campers had plenty of activities to choose from: for example, the program of the workshop "Cheerleading" allowed teenagers to master the basic skills of teamwork, the ability to organize their leisure time and become free in self-expression. The fans of solving logical puzzles, who attended the "Math's Box" workshop, developed a polylingual multicultural quest with non-standard tasks and paradoxes, ciphers and cryptography and presented it to other campers. The children were also able to attend photography courses, dance classes, theatre studio or even the workshop on traditional active games of different folks.
The camp organizers invented and scheduled facilities for campers to boost creativity, teamwork, international relations and self-management among children. In the middle of the shift, the campers organized the Parliament, choosing the leaders to present the interests of the delegations. The children decided how to manage their free time, the further development of the shift, determined the plans for the next day. Moreover, additionally to the scheduled workshops and teambuilding activities, the participants of the «Rosatom School» had time to enjoy the Andaman Sea and to get acquainted with the sights and culture of Thailand.
"This camp made me surprised, fun and happy at the same time; the teachers in this camp are very kind, friendly and cute, that is why I love them. I like their effort to speak English with everyone. I think activities in this camp are very different from another camps that I visited; they made me confident to speak English more. My friends from many countries are very friendly, they helped me to speak English better and to understand that friendship is boundless. I want to say "Thank you for everything". I will remember all of you and the «Rosatom School» forever", said Phatchari Laekhanawe, the «Rosatom School» participant from Thailand.
In September The State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM (Russia) and Kinetics Corporation Ltd. (Thailand) announced a joint project of a cyclotron complex with radiochemical laboratories for the Thailand Institute of Nuclear Technology (TINT). The facility will be located at Ongkharak Nuclear Research Centre in Nakhon Nayok. The project is expected to be implemented within 3.5 years.
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ROSATOM State Atomic Energy Corporation is the Russian Federation national nuclear corporation that comprises of more than 350 nuclear industry companies and institutions. With over 70 years of experience in the field of nuclear technology, ROSATOM works on a global scale to provide comprehensive nuclear services that range from uranium enrichment to nuclear power plant construction as one of the global leaders in nuclear industry. ROSATOM has a strong focus on applied research and innovations and invests 4.5% of its annual revenues into R&D projects. The technologies of the Russian nuclear industry have been used to build over 120 research reactors globally.