Emma Pye – UK-German Youth Ambassador

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Created: Wednesday, 09 October 2013 13:37

Written by christine

This September Emma Pye (Year 13) applied to the UK-German Connection to become a UK-German Youth Ambassador. After writing a detailed and well-crafted application, she sent it off to London. Despite a very high volume of exceptional applications, we found out that she had beaten off the competition to secure one of ten places on the fully funded scheme. What an amazing achievement! Emma will now participate in a conference in London in October 2013 as well as a trip and conference in Berlin in July 2014. She will be working with other likeminded students from around the country as well as developing networks and partnerships with students from Germany. The main aim of the Ambassador role is to increase awareness of the benefits of studying the German language and Emma’s passion for languages will certainly help her with this. We wish her luck with her endeavours and look forward to hearing about them throughout the year!

Emma Pye (pictured above)

“I was so excited to find out that my application to be a UK-German Youth Ambassador had been accepted! I have always had a passion for languages and so this is a great opportunity for me to make a difference and encourage people to be more interested in both German language and culture. I have lots of ideas and I am currently in the process of trying to set up some links with Primary schools in the local area in order to organise some activity days based on celebrations in Germany. In terms of including students at the college both pre- and post-16, I am hoping to set up links with a school in Germany with students contacting each other individually via emails or as a group by Skype in order to really encourage them to learn and practice some German! I am really looking forward to making the most of this opportunity and cannot wait to organise various other activities and events in the year ahead!”

“On the 25th October, I attended a seminar in London over 3 days which allowed me meet my fellow ambassadors, both British and German, and develop my plans for the year in more depth with help from some of the leaders at UK-German Connection, the organisation who runs the scheme. The seminar took place in the former embassy of the German Democratic Republic and it was very full on from planning projects, to learning about each others’ cultures, to enhancing organisation and leadership skills. I met many fantastic people and made some great connections with some of the German students and we’ve agreed to set up some links between our schools. In terms of my project plans I am hoping to run a series of workshops on both German language and culture in local primary schools. In College, I have decided that my first project will be to organise ‘The Great German Bake Off’. Look out for more information on this soon!”