Thursday, August 08th, 2013

Emmy-Nominated Film Features Santa Barbara Students and Teachers

Alethea Tyner ParadisPeace Works Travel, a Santa Barbara based educational tour company founded by Alethea Tyner Paradis, a local teacher and Spirit of Entrepreneurship Award winner, is featured with her students in a 2013 Emmy-nominated documentary film. An ABCNews-produced documentary, Power of a Picture, was filmed in Santa Barbara and Vietnam and highlights the educational value of the photo of the… [Read Full Article]

Thursday, April 04th, 2013

Santa Barbara Middle School - Discovering Hanoi

By Daniel We started off the day with a visit to a Confucian temple, also called "The Temple of Literature."  It was filled with young school children, maybe 5 or 6 years old who were on a field trip to receive awards for getting good grades in school. The temple had a beautiful garden that included an intricate array of flowers… [Read Full Article]

Wednesday, April 03th, 2013

Santa Barbara Middle School featured in the Washington Post & ABC News "day in pictures!"

Santa Barbara Middle School students are accompanied by Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Nick Ut as they travel through Vietnam.Click Here to see Nick's photo of Santa Barbara Middle School students which was featured in the Washington Post "Day in Pictures" (Image # 16)ABC News picked up another photo from the trip and featured it in their "Day in Pictures -… [Read Full Article]

Wednesday, April 03th, 2013

Santa Barbara Middle School - Vietnam - Day 6

By RyanToday in Vietnam we had lots of fun. We did a variety of different activities which kept us busy all day. After breakfast we went on the river taxi and visited the floating markets where people sell from their boats in the middle of the Mekong delta.  On land, we visited a small factory where they make rice cakes,… [Read Full Article]

Monday, April 01th, 2013

Santa Barbara Middle School - The Mekong Delta

By Ryan Today in Vietnam we had lots of fun. We did a variety of different activities which kept us busy all day. After breakfast we went on the river taxi and visited the floating markets where people sell from their boats in the middle of the Mekong delta.  On land, we visited a small factory where they make rice… [Read Full Article]