Participate in the JIS Festival held in collaboration with the 37th Annual Washington State Japanese Language Speech and Skit Competition. Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the education program Japan In the Schools, provided by the Japan-America Society of the State of WA.
* All students attending will be entered in a raffle for the chance to win one economy class round-trip ticket to Japan! Terms and Conditions apply.
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Schedule: March 8, 2020
1414 S Weller St, Seattle
9:00 Registration Opens 9:30 - 9:55 Opening Ceremony 10:00 - 11:00 1st Session 11:15 - 12:15 2nd Session 12:15 - 13:10 Lunch 13:15 - 14:15 3rd Session 14:30 - 15:30 4th Session 15:45 - 16:30 Award Ceremony
Registration Fee: $15 *Includes a t-shirt and one raffle ticket
*Lunch is available for an extra $10
Check or Online payment only. Registration will be canceled if payment is not received within two weeks of signing up.
- Important -
Event is open to the first 80 students who register. Parents are welcome to join at no extra cost for the Award Ceremony. Speech & Skit contestants must register for the JIS Festival also if they wish to participate in any of the Festival activities.
Camp Rules One of the motives of this festival is to make it purely immersion. This means that everyone will be speaking Japanese! Each student will be given yellow cards to hold up when they need to use English.
Students will be put into groups and will be rotating around each classroom. On top of attending each session, each student group will get a chance to watch the WA Speech & Skit Contest.
Available Classrooms
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Students applying to the contest must apply once here and on the Hyogo BCC website. Find more information about the Speech contest here!
Application Deadline: February 14, 2020
For Students Applying to the Speech & Skit Contest: