Chinese Studies

IThe 11th Cross-University Chinese Language Performance Competition/Talent Show

Chinese Language Competition/Talent Show

24 students from the Chinese Studies Program in the Dept. of World Languages and Cultures at ISU participated in The Eleventh Cross-University Chinese Language Performance Competition/Talent Show on Saturday, April 25th at University of Iowa. The competition is held every two years. This time it was sponsored by the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Iowa Confucius Institute, and University of Iowa. Four universities took part in the competition. They are University of Iowa, Grinnell College, Winona University, and Iowa State University.

Five performances from ISU entered the competition. There were seven prizes altogether: four third prizes, two second prizes, and one first prize. All five performances from ISU won a prize, including the grand first prize! All three performances from our first-year students won a third Prize. The only one from the second-year also won a third Prize. The first Prize went to our third-year group. Each and every student who went to Iowa City for the competition came back with an award in the form of a paper certificate and some hard cash. The titles of the performance and the names of our winners are:

First Year

1) An Inconvenient Truth by Jayson Hansen, Annabelle Hill, and Katie Flickinger
2) The Mouse Marriage by Stephen Hueholt, Xu Jia, Christine Yee, Justin Gleason, Colin Robin, Griffin West, Wallace Davis, and Daniel Hefel.
3) Many people on the bus in Beijing by Nick Juelsgarrd, Brian Hubbard, Kristina Emerick, Jeffrey Wilson, Natasha Wadsworth, and Kelby Barker

Second-year

4 ) Seeing the Doctor by Amelia Doermann, Caitlin Toppler, Mitchell Stevens, Brian Drake

Third-year

5) Mystery Cove by Andrew Becker, Ming-yee Li, and Derek Widman

ISU participated in this competition four times over the years. We did the best this time. Faculty members from other universities were very impressed by the quality of work that our students demonstrated. They commended that ISU students would be a very positive influence on their students.