Seminar on The Global Village

American Councils for International Education conducted number of seminars followed last 2 months in alumni resource center on Global Village for leaders in business and industry.
First seminar took place in ARC on Wednesday, January 30th 2008. Over 13 alumni gathered in alumni resource center to listen to a seminar conducted by former Global Village alumni.
Nana Aburjanidze ’96, Nino Makatsaria ’02 and Elene Aladashvili ’98 lead the seminar. All 3 leaders of the seminar are Flex alumni and Global Village alumni as well. Nana Aburjanidze ’96 and Elene Aladashvili ’98 remembered old good times while in GV and showed some nice pictures of activities and classes at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Nana Aburjanidze ’96 Flex alumna states: “I was amazed from Global Village and I want to amaze others as well from the experience I gained while on the program. We are the best of the best, I want other flex to be very enthusiastic about thisopportunity as well, so don’t hesitate to fill the application and apply for this truly amazing opportunity.”
 
Second seminar was conducted on Tuesday, February 12th 2008. Eighteen interested alumni gathered in the Alumni Resource Center to receive detailed information on the Global Village for leaders in business and industry. The seminar was lead by Sophio Balavadze,  FLEX alumna 1995 and Global Village ’04 alumna. The seminar involved a question and answersession, and a review of the GV application for interestedcandidates. Sophio talked about herpersonal experience in Global Village and discussed all theaspects of the program.

Since application deadline was fastapproaching in 3 days, the alumni already had specific questions concerning the application forms. Sopho therefore decided to go online and show step by step how the application should be filled in.

At the end, the alumni looked over the lists of the Global Village alumni, which revealed that all previous GV alumni from Georgia appeared to be female, which seemed to show the strength of women in Georgian business.