ANA is sponsoring Sports Camp of America (SCOA), an intercultural summer sports camp in Japan, conducted in English, which brings Japanese students together with American camp counselors.
United States of America (Press Release) July 4, 2008 --
All Nippon Airlines (ANA) announced that it will sponsor Sports Camp of America (SCOA), a unique intercultural sports camp in Japan in order to give Japanese elementary and junior high school kids an American-style camp experience without leaving home.
“ANA is pleased to be associated with this worthwhile program that gives Japanese and American students a life-changing opportunity to expand their horizons by experiencing different cultures,” said Mr. Tomonori Ishii, ANA’s Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Americas.
The campers experience American culture and practice English through playing sports, cheer dance and other camp activities with American camp counselors.
This summer, nine American college students and recent graduates with sports or cheerleading backgrounds have been selected through SCOA’s internship program to come to Japan to be camp counselors. ANA will fly the American camp counselors to Japan from Los Angeles in July.
“SCOA is all about giving Japanese kids a typical American camp experience and inspiring them to learn about other cultures and motivate them to learn English,” said J.R. Best, SCOA’s camp director.
ANA is Japan’s largest domestic airline, offering service 130 routes throughout Japan and 22 international routes including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Washington, DC.
SCOA’s partner in the summer camp is the Japanese non-profit, Kiyosato Educational Experiment Project (KEEP) which has facilities in the mountains of Kiyosato, Yamanashi-ken, two hours west of Tokyo where the camp will be held.
With each camp session lasting two-nights and three-days, this summer SCOA will offer four camp sessions at KEEP: July 21-23; July 23-25: July 28-30; and July 30-August 1. In addition, one camp session will be held in Kamogawa, Chiba-ken on August 3-5.
Additional support for SCOA is provided by the United States Embassy of Japan, the Japan Flag Football Federation (JFFF), NFL Japan and the Japan Cheer Dance Association.
For more information: email: info@scoacamp.com website at www.scoacamp.com
About SCOA
SCOA serves as a bridge between cultures through its cross-cultural programs and camps. We bring Japanese together with people from different cultures so they can experience and appreciate other cultures and expand their horizons. SCOA also holds weekend day camps in Tokyo. J.R. and Keiko Best founded SCOA four years with the goal of building bridges between Japanese and people from other cultures so they can have positive cross-cultural experiences through the language of sports. www.scoacamp.com
About ANA
ANA (All Nippon Airways) is the eighth largest airline in the world by passenger load (IATA ranking) and Japan’s largest domestic carrier. It was named “Airline of the Year” for 2007 by the leading aviation industry trade magazine, Air Transport World, and will be the launch carrier for the revolutionary Boeing 787 aircraft.
“ANA is pleased to be associated with this worthwhile program that gives Japanese and American students a life-changing opportunity to expand their horizons by experiencing different cultures,” said Mr. Tomonori Ishii, ANA’s Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Americas.
The campers experience American culture and practice English through playing sports, cheer dance and other camp activities with American camp counselors.
This summer, nine American college students and recent graduates with sports or cheerleading backgrounds have been selected through SCOA’s internship program to come to Japan to be camp counselors. ANA will fly the American camp counselors to Japan from Los Angeles in July.
“SCOA is all about giving Japanese kids a typical American camp experience and inspiring them to learn about other cultures and motivate them to learn English,” said J.R. Best, SCOA’s camp director.
ANA is Japan’s largest domestic airline, offering service 130 routes throughout Japan and 22 international routes including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Washington, DC.
SCOA’s partner in the summer camp is the Japanese non-profit, Kiyosato Educational Experiment Project (KEEP) which has facilities in the mountains of Kiyosato, Yamanashi-ken, two hours west of Tokyo where the camp will be held.
With each camp session lasting two-nights and three-days, this summer SCOA will offer four camp sessions at KEEP: July 21-23; July 23-25: July 28-30; and July 30-August 1. In addition, one camp session will be held in Kamogawa, Chiba-ken on August 3-5.
Additional support for SCOA is provided by the United States Embassy of Japan, the Japan Flag Football Federation (JFFF), NFL Japan and the Japan Cheer Dance Association.
For more information: email: info@scoacamp.com website at www.scoacamp.com
About SCOA
SCOA serves as a bridge between cultures through its cross-cultural programs and camps. We bring Japanese together with people from different cultures so they can experience and appreciate other cultures and expand their horizons. SCOA also holds weekend day camps in Tokyo. J.R. and Keiko Best founded SCOA four years with the goal of building bridges between Japanese and people from other cultures so they can have positive cross-cultural experiences through the language of sports. www.scoacamp.com
About ANA
ANA (All Nippon Airways) is the eighth largest airline in the world by passenger load (IATA ranking) and Japan’s largest domestic carrier. It was named “Airline of the Year” for 2007 by the leading aviation industry trade magazine, Air Transport World, and will be the launch carrier for the revolutionary Boeing 787 aircraft.
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