The SEP Academic Cultural Experience© (ACE), functions within SEP High School, Middle School, Primary and Elementary Schools, and University Programs, and is operated by the participating Chinese school’s Principals as well as the US Principals and School Districts. The ACE Program includes Summer / Winter ‘camps’ to various schools, as well as student / teacher exchanges to participating schools.
The Satellite Education Program’s ACE Program is one facet of SEP’s ongoing mission to bridge United States public educational resources with the People’s Republic of China’s vast and productive education system. In doing so, SEP elevates the best of both countries’ educational expertise by linking Primary, Elementary, Middle, and High Schools, as well as Colleges and Universities, together in developing mutually beneficial relationships throughout both countries’ educational systems. Honesty and Quality are the cornerstones to SEP’s developmental philosophy. Utilizing innovative technologies while maintaining traditional values are the building blocks of SEP.
In this great collaboration, SEP will serve as both an advisor and as a liaison between the American public schools and the participating Chinese schools. SEP continues to develop further Programs within both Institutions individually, through providing a multitude of United States public school connections to the Chinese schools, and by expanding the participating American school’s recruitment base and exposure to new schools in China.
The SEP ACE Program features great flexibility in scheduling, and distinctly meaningful academic and cultural immersion opportunities. From 2-day lecture sessions to 2 year-long exchanges, the ACE Program can fulfill almost any request made by a group of students from participating schools.
The ACE Program is capable of providing students with the ability to not only tour an American public school and the surrounding area, but to sit-in on several classes the students may be interested in and really get to experience the American curriculum first-hand.
SEP’s first successful ACE Program was a cooperative endeavor with Nankai University’s College of Economics and Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey on 28-29 January 2015. Twenty students from Tianjin’s Nankai University traveled to the United States and attended several classes at Rutgers, including Microeconomics, American History, Finance, and American Pop Culture. All classes were taught by Rutgers PhDs. The program is an official collaboration between SEP and the Rutgers China Office, headed by Dr. Jeff Wang and supervised by Sibylle Pearce, the Project Coordinator. Courses were held at the Rutgers New Brunswick campus.
