Taipei City Government

Do you want to learn about the history of Taipei City? Would you like to experience being a volunteer tour guide? To enhance youth's involvement and recognition toward Taipei City, Discovery Center of Taipei from Department of Tourism and Information is hosting the "Young volunteer tour guide camp," which integrates culture and creativity. Once sign up, each attendant will receive an Administrative Division of Taipei City Discovery Folder (臺北城市行政區域探索資料夾) and a Discovery Tour Guide Notebook (探索導覽筆記書). Those who complete the discovery map will also get "City Magic Beans"(城市魔豆). Meanwhile, student that fully participates in the camp and completes the review will get a certificate. All eligible students are encouraged to register.
According to Department of Tourism and Information, Discovery Center of Taipei is the first stop to understand Taipei. The department has been working on developing and training volunteer city tour guides for years. The Young volunteer tour guide camp targets students from 4th grade to 9th grade. Starting from the Discovery center of Taipei, students will learn about Taipei city in all directions. It will help students to learn about their hometown Taipei, as well as to recognize volunteering service. Through the professional training, students will be able to introduce Taipei integrating their life experience and observations.
The camp is from 10/17 to 11/1 with 10 tiers, 300 spots in total. Registration starts today until it reaches the limit number of applicants. Each person is limited to attend only one tier. The camp includes visiting Discovery center of Taipei, and on-field-visit other places. Following instructors, students will visit Taipei towards all four directions: towards East to the old house Qingtian 76, which is full of old stories; towards West to the Red House, Taiwan's first public market and the most well-preserved class III historical site; towards South to Nanmen Park of National Taiwan Museum, introducing Taiwan's famous camphor industry; towards North to visit National Palace Museum and Taiwan Fine Arts Museum, where these places treasure thousands-years-long Chinese culture and modern arts. In addition to historical fact, students will learn tour guiding skills, with senior volunteer tour guides sharing their tour guiding experience. Furthermore, there will be games to help students become more familiar with Discovery center of Taipei. These young volunteer tour guides will be expected to use active and interesting ways to let people view Taipei from a "young" way. All students from 4th grade to 9th grade are welcomed to join. For Registration detail please visit the official site of Discovery center of Taipei.

Registration information:
Age: Students between 4th grade 9th grade (inclusive)
Capacity: 10 tiers, with 30 people in each tier.
Registration duration: Starting Sep. 29th (Wed) until the maximum number people is reached
Time:
Morning tier: 10:00 - 12:00
Afternoon tier: 13:30 - 15:30
Website: Discovery Center of Taipei http://discovery.gov.taipei/(Chinese)
Phone-number: (02)2556-0986
Fax: (02)2556-0985
Email: 2015teenagerguide@gmail.com
Note:
1. Each person is limited to register for one tier
2. To ensure the quality of camp, parents are not recommended to attend
Discovery center of Taipei
※Address：First floor to fourth floor, No.1, City Hall Rd., Xinyi Dist., Taipei City 110（Enter the city hall from the east gate, which is facing Ren'ai road, the Discovery center of Taipei will be on the right hand side)
※Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 9AM to 5PM, free admission
※Closed hours: Monday and Holidays