November 24-25, 2011 Pinky Cupino, our Filipino partner and director of the Center for Positive Futures in Banaba, came back to Grenoble after 4 years to meet the French GCI participants and present them her country. She talked about the history of Philippines, from the ancient times to the colonization and decolonization. And she also talked about today’s issues.

Presentations by Pinky Cupino, Director of the Center for Positive Futures – Manila - and Kristie Bliss, Cortland Junior-Senior High School Principal

The students presented the results of the research they made during the school year and the different topics they tackled.

In November, 2006, Pinky Cupino, Director of the Center for Positive Futures in the Philippines and Lori Megivern, Social Studies Teacher at Cortland High School in the United States came to Grenoble, France to meet with the students and teachers who would be participating in the GCI project. The meeting enabled the French participants to learn more about how people in the United States think of France, and about life in the Philippines.