“Career Aspirations” by five top-notched panelists: Ms. Duy-Loan Le, Senior Fellow from Texas Instruments, Mr. Dat Nguyen, CEO of Thoi Bao Inc., Mr. Chau Thi Nguyen Huu, CEO of WinMagic, Ms. Kim Yen Vu, Principal of Stafford Primary School, and Dr. Rick Ngo, Surgeon of Memorial Physican Network;

“Assertive Communication” by Dr. Audrey Yamagata (from LEAP); “Conflict Resolution” by Mark Nozaki (from LEAP); and “Problem Solving” by Mr. Truong Nong (Institute for Civic Education in Vietnam).

Campers listen to Mina Nguyen Tran speech

In the late afternoon, all teams participated in sports competition games and then joining in the Media presentation by Mr. Duong Phuc and Mrs. Vu, Thanh Thuy from Saigon Houston Radio 900Am with the topic “How to work the media?”. All teams were able to utilize the lessons they learned immediately by producing a video clip and work on a team project on critical issues faced by Vietnamese American/Canadian youths these days. Within two hours and throughout dinner teams, these teams worked magic and produced great video clip discussing: global issues such as human trafficking, community issues such as youth-at-risk and how to encourage more youth participation in the community activities and also on how to preserve the Vietnamese culture and closing the gaps between different generations in our community.

The bonfire with a lot of singing and also various youth activists sharing their involvement with others such as Kim Vu from Union of Vietnamese American Student Association from Atlanta, Georgia, Michelle Tran from VSA in University of British Columbia, and Minh Chau Phan, President of VSA at the University of Waterloo, Kitchener, Ontario. The bonfire led to the Youth forum discussion two separate topics: Youth-at-risks issues and Generational Gaps issues. The Youth-at-risk issues forum was facilitated by Anne-Marie Phuong Anh Pham from Calgary, Alberta and they had a very moving stories and sharing among the campers about the topic. The Generational Gaps issues were facilitated by Ms. Kim Yen Vu also brought many insights to the challenges that Vietnamese youth nowadays are facing related to cultural gaps.

Everyone ended the day with great supper provided by local Chief Cook Donald Dung Duong.