Reception at the Embassy of Ukraine for the Occasion of Student Day

Ukrainian students in the United States and American students of the Ukrainian origin are sincerely invited to take part in the Reception at the Embassy of Ukraine on November, 18th, for the occasion of student day. This ceremony aims to establish links between the Ukrainian students from different universities and cities, as well as between students and the Embassy and students and local Ukrainian organizations.

Participation in the event is free. Organizers do not compensate any costs associated with participation in the event. Organizers will make efforts to provide free accommodation for participants from other cities.

To participate in the event you need to register by November, 10. Seating capacity is limited.

PROGRAM

Friday, November 18:

Students’ Borsch
13:00 - 15:00 | Rosslyn Metro Station, ground level, outside the station
We will have a lunch with Ukrainian borsch in Arlington, VA, and then will have a nice picturesque walk across the Potomac river to Georgetown, where the Embassy of Ukraine is located.

Reception at the Embassy of Ukraine
16:00 - 19:00 | 3350 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20007
Tour the Embassy, communication with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the US Oleksander Motsyk and other representatives of the diplomatic corps. Presentation of the Federation of Ukrainian Student Organizations of America (SUSTA) and other Ukrainian organizations and resources of Washington Area and the entire country, which can be useful to the Ukrainian students.

Beer party on the Day of Ukrainian student
19:30 - 22:00 | Georgetown (address will be announced later)

Saturday, November 19:

Short historical tour of Washington, D.C.
10:00 - 13:00 | Meeting near the Liberty Bell in front of Union Station at 9:50. Metro: Union Station. During this tour we will see the main tourist sights of the American capital: Capitol, White House, Washington and Lincoln memorials, memorials to the the Vietnam, Korean and the Second World Wars.

Farewell Lunch
13:00 - 15:00 | Official completion of the program, sharing contacts, saying “do zustrichi”.

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All the activities but the Embassy reception are optional. The program could be a subject to minor changes.

Contacts:

Viktor Zagreba, event coordinator, SUSTA, University of Maryland, viktor@zagreba.com, 240-475-9895;
Maksym Plakhotnyuk, President of SUSTA, University of Illinois, maxplatpro@gmail.com, 773-441-8729

Registration for the Student Day Reception at the Embassy of Ukraine - Washington, D.C., 11/18/2011

ZLUKACAMP: become a change you want to be in Ukraine

ZlUKACAMP is a barcamp-conference, where Ukrainian students in the USA and Ukrainian Diaspora will unite efforts to search the ways for Ukraine to overcome the economic and political crisis. Conference will be held in the format of a barcamp, where every participant can become a speaker.

When? 

January 22, 2011 from 10 am till 5 pm

Where?

Ukrainian-American Federal Credit Union Selfreliance, 2332 West Chicago Avenue

Chicago, Illinois 60622


Languages of the ZLUKACAMP:
Ukrainian and English (without translation)

You have something to say? 

Become a speaker at Zlukacamp if you have answers on the following questions:

• how American academic experience can be used to support Ukraine?
• how Ukrainian students in USA can be united?
• how Diaspora managed  to preserve Ukrainian culture and develop Ukrainian community in the USA?
• what are the projects and initiatives in Diaspora to which Ukrainian students could join?
• how Ukrainian students in USA and Diaspora could act together?
• what is the future of Ukrainian elite and Ukrainian education?

Please, register as a speaker till 17^th January 2011 here!

To whom the conference might be interesting?

• for those who would like to act right here and right now
• for those who find an American experience to be the powerful resource for building changes in Ukraine
• for those who is studying or have ever studied in the USA and finds the value of education not in knowledge, but in action

  

Why?

• Because every year hundreds of Ukrainian students are coming to study at the USA, get here valuable education, develop amazing ideas and projects, but act alone
• Because the powerful Ukrainian Diaspora exists in the USA, but only a few people know about its projects and initiatives
• Because uniting efforts of Ukrainian students in USA and Ukrainian Diaspora we can learn from each other and together in a synergy create changes in Ukraine.