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In recognition of the 200 th anniversary of the U.S.-Russian diplomatic relations, the U.S. Consulate General in Yekaterinburg invites you to participate in an interschool dialogue on life and achievements of John Quincy Adams.
John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States . Before the presidency he was a lawyer, a professor at the Harvard University, a minister to the Netherlands, Prussia, Great Britain, and Russia (in 1809 John Quincy Adams arrived in Russia as the first official diplomatic representative of the United States), the U.S. Senator, and one of greatest Secretaries of State. After leaving the White House, John Quincy Adams became one of the most respected members of the House of Representatives. As a Congressman he fought the “gag rule” that shelved antislavery petitions and became known as “Old Man Eloquent”.
We invite the high schools in the U.S. and the Urals and Western Siberia in Russia to create project groups of students guided by teachers of English or History; connect the project groups in Russia and the U.S. to explore any particular aspect of John Quincy Adams' political activities; and as the outcome, to present joint projects, which celebrate best qualities of the political leaders and the values John Quincy Adams promoted.
John Quincy Adams kept a diary for many years including a period when he, being just 14 y. o., served as an interpreter for the American envoy to Russia . The St. Petersburg diaries 1781-82 of Adams could be one of the main sources for joint research by American and Russian schoolchildren.
The contest should establish connections between the future leaders in the U.S. and Russia by studying the life of the first U.S. Minister to Russia who was an honest and devoted statesman. |
Content:
Eligibility
Project Requirements
Submission
Selection Procedure
Prizes:
First Prize:
Second Prize:
Third Prize:
For questions and inquiries
Eligibility
The contest is open to any group of high school students supervised by a teacher in the U.S. and the Urals Consular District.
Project Requirements
• Projects should be the outcome of cooperative work of Russian and American schoolchildren
• Projects can be in any format: a PowerPoint presentation, a web-page, a research paper, etc.
• Projects should be in English
• Projects should be focusing on John Quincy Adams' role in the international relations history and his commitment to the universal human values, which inspire today's American and Russian students as the future leaders. Projects should demonstrate and stimulate cooperative efforts of the U.S. and Russian youth in building stable and prosperous societies. The sample topics of the research projects are:
• Teenage Exploration of the World
• Diplomatic Achievements
• JQA's Role in the Amistad Case
• Idealism in Public Service
• Projects should be well-structured and based on the research of on-line materials (such as the Massachusetts Historical Society web-site www.masshist.org , the U.S. Embassy in Russian web-site www.usembassy.ru , and others), biographies, reference books, and magazine articles. All used sources should be cited.
Submission
The projects should be submitted to the U.S. Consulate General in Yekaterinburg by Tuesday, May 1 st , 2007 . If the project is sent by post, it should be sent in advance to catch the deadline. The Consulate will not consider projects that arrived later than May 1 st , 2007 .
The projects can be:
• sent by e-mail
PAyekat@state.gov
• or regular mail
Attn.: PAS,
15, Gogolya Street ,
Yekaterinburg 620051,
Russia
• or be brought in person to the American Center in Yekaterinburg
193, Mamina-Sibiryaka Street
2 nd floor, Library of the City Mayor
Selection Procedure
The projects will be reviewed by regional jury, consisting of U.S. diplomats and distinguished experts in American Studies and English as a Foreign Language. The jury will select three best projects. Finalists will be notified in May.
Prizes:
First Prize:
- Award certificate signed by the U.S. Consul General and the Chairman of the Board of the Massachusetts Historical Society
- Publication of the project on the U.S. Consulate web-site
- Collection of award-winning American films
Second Prize:
- Award certificate signed by the U.S. Consul General and the Chairman of the Board of the Massachusetts Historical Society
- Publication of the project on the U.S. Consulate web-site
- Collection of books on U.S. history and American Studies
Third Prize:
- Award certificate signed by the U.S. Consul General and the Chairman of the Board of the Massachusetts Historical Society
- Publication of the project on the U.S. Consulate web-site
- A collection of American jazz CDs
All the award winners will be invited to the U.S. Consulate's Anniversary Reception in honor of U.S. Independence Day.
For questions and inquiries
You are welcome to contact Public Affairs Section at the U.S. Consulate General in Yekaterinburg by phone (343) 379-47-60 or (343) 379-30-01 or by e-mail:
Slavyana Sagakyan, Information Resources Assistant
SagakyanSV@state.gov
Yulia Grigoryeva, Cultural and Educational Assistant
GrigoryevaYY@state.gov
Maria Matveyeva, Program Assistant
MatveyevaMV@state.gov
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