"How might your Genius Hour project help you stand out to colleges and help shape your life plan?"

For our Genius Hour project, I chose to learn about making Chinese Paper-cuttings by using different types of color-paper and craft knifes to make beautiful patterns. I took pictures or videos while doing them and updated my blog every week with these pictures, videos and the descriptions I wrote for this pattern. My blog is not only for the people who love Chinese tradition culture and are interested in making Chinese paper-cuttings, but also for everyone who is open to learn and experience more Chinese culture. As an international student from China, I would like to introduce to people in other countries more about our traditional Chinese culture. Chinese paper-cuttings are really traditional, interesting, and cool things to do and I really enjoy doing them.

I believe that my project helps me stand out to colleges because I can bring the most traditional first sources from Chinese culture to people all around the world. While having cultural diffusion in United States, I would like to try my best to add more into it. Cultural exchange helps people in different parts of the world know more about other countries. After finishing this project, I will still learn more interesting things about Chinese culture in my free time and spread them to people around me and people who are interested in to help them experience different culture. And also, I will be more open to experience more about other cultures at the same time.