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National Experimental High School At Science Based Industrial Park
國立新竹科學工業園區實驗高級中學
National Experimental High School At Science Based Industrial Park; 國立新竹科學工業園區實驗高級中學
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	No.300, Chieh-Shou Rd.; Hsinchu City, Taiwan; Republic of China
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School type	National High School, Elementary School, Kindergarten
Motto	Sincere, Steadfast, Innovative, Transcending; 誠懇、踏實、創新、超越 (Chinese)
Established	1983
Principal	Christine Huang
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National Experimental High School At Science Based Industrial Park (NEHS), situated near the Hsinchu Science Park, is a public, coeducational school (pre-primary-12). Founded in August 1983, the school was proposed by the founder of the Science Park Kwoh-Ting Li. NEHS is administered by the Ministry of Education, National Science Council and Science Park Administration. With the exception of the rigorous "Advanced Math and Science Class" of the Senior High School department, NEHS only admits children of employees of private enterprises in the Science Park, government organizations, the Industrial Technology Research Institute, National Chiao Tung University, and National Tsing Hua University.

Departments

The school is composed of five departments: four "regular" departments, more popularly known as the Experimental Department, (Kindergarten, Elementary, Junior High and Senior High School) and one Bilingual department.

The four regular departments facilitate a local Mandarin education and adopt the Taiwan (ROC) national curriculum. The Senior High School Department is regarded as one of the most prestigious senior high schools in the nation with the highest admission scores in the Hsinchu-Miaoli area. There is generally three times as many Experimental students as compared to Bilingual Students. As a result, it is not hard to find an Experimental student that excels in extracurricular activities at a much higher degree than Bilingual students during the kindergarten to junior highschool years. However, a High School exam is required for experimental students if they wish to continue their enrollment for High School.

The Bilingual Department (with grades 1-12) serves students in the English-speaking community who seek an American college-preparatory education or plan to transfer to the local school system. Students come from business, professional, government, and diplomatic families. In the past, 47% of Bilingual Department parents had PhD's. The Bilingual Department currently has an enrollment of over 600 students. It is also known as the International Bilingual School at Hsinchu Science Park (IBSH).

The department was operated as a magnet program to attract overseas scholars and professionals to stay in the Hsinchu "Greater Science Park Area" by providing special education opportunities to their children.

The Kindergarten Department

The Kindergarten department is taught by twelve teachers and consists of two grades. One grade is designed for children older than five and the younger grade is taught for children older than four. Each grade is divided into three classes with a maximum of thirty children per class.

The Elementary Department

The Elementary Department has its own building and includes the first grade to sixth grade, with seven classes each. There are also eight classes for special education. Numerous events and student activities are available in the department. One that demonstrates the education of self-governance is the annual "Little Mayor Election," which allows sixth graders to run for election.

The Junior High and Senior High Department

The Junior High and Senior High students reside in the same building, sharing common classrooms, equipment, and teacher offices. There are five classes in each of the three grades in Junior High Department and four each in the Senior High Department, one of the four being the Mathematical and Science Talent class (數理資優班). A fifth class, the Science class (科學班), was introduced during the 2009-2010 school year. Each class has less than forty students. The uniform comes in summer and winter suites. Junior High Department uniforms consist of cream-colored shirts and navy blue shorts pants for boys and maroon pleated skirts/navy pants for girls. The uniform of Senior High Department consists of pink shirts, maroon ties, and navy pants for boys and navy pleated skirts/navy pants for girls. There is a Student Association in the Senior High Department responsible for department-wide events such as proms and sport competitions.

The Bilingual Department

International Bilingual School at the Hsinchu-Science-Park (IBSH), situated in Taiwan's "Silicon Valley," the high-tech Science-based Industrial Park, is a public, coeducational school (1st-12th grade). The Bilingual Department serves students in the English-speaking community who either seek an American college-preparatory education or plan to transfer to the local school system. Students come from business, professional, government and diplomatic families. Forty-one percent of the International Bilingual School parents have Ph.D's. IBSH had a total enrollment of 601 students and a graduating class of 51 students during the 2008-2009 school year. The Bilingual Department is a particulary small school as compared to other schools worldwide. Each grade (from 1 to 12) has about 50 students, with an average of 25 students each classroom. These classrooms are divided in "the current grade" followed by each "A" or "B" afterwards. For instance, a student in the 12th grade may be either in the 12A or 12B classroom. The students assigned to each different classrooms are entired random.

IBSH is accredited by the Republic of China Ministry of Education and is administered by both the Ministry of Education and the National Science Council. The International Bilingual school is operated as a magnet program and has also achieved candidacy for accreditation by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) since June 2008.

The academic program at IBSH is rigorous, and students face demanding instructors and a fully bilingual (English and Mandarin) curriculum. IBSH operates on a semester system with a 200-day school year, beginning in late August and ending in late June. IBSH offers 17 Advanced Placement (AP) courses, with subjects ranging from Biology to AP European History. Students are required to study Mandarin Chinese in an intensive language program taught by native speakers. The intensive Chinese program uses textbooks identical to those used in local Taiwanese schools. Students take placement tests prior to their enrollment at IBSH and are placed in classes corresponding to their relative level of fluency and familiarity with Chinese.

The extracurricular activities at IBSH are diverse; a wide range of activities are available for student participation. Student government, Key Club, InterAct, Track and Field, basketball, swimming, soccer, cheerleading, breakdancing, taekwondo, hip hop, policy debate, and Model United Nations are some of the student organizations present at IBSH. Multiple events are hosted for IBSH students throughout the school year by the student council and other student organizations. School-wide events such as the NEHS Field Day and the School Anniversary also involve substantial student participation.

History

March 23, 1982--Kwoh-Ting Li, the then Minister of the Executive Yuan, chaired a special meeting, during which the proposal of establishing National Experimental High School at the Science-based Industrial Park was formally approved by representatives from the Ministry of Education, National Science Council, academic and research institutions, as well as universities in the neighborhood of the Science Park.

August 1983—National Experimental High School at the Science-based Industrial Park was formally founded. Deputy Director Ning-Ruo Chu of Park Administration served concurrently as the first principal of the school. The first enrollments included one senior high class, three junior high classes, and three bilingual classes with one kindergarten class.

March 1, 1984—The Ministry of Education appointed Yu-Cheng Chang as the second principal to replace Ning-Ruo Chu who had resigned. The Elementary Department was established in August the same year.

September 1988—Principal Yu-Cheng Chang's resignation was approved. I-Ming Chiu was then appointed by the Ministry of Education as the third principal. After Chiu retired in February 1995, Dean of Academic Affairs Hsiao-Yin Tai served as acting principal.

July 1995—A committee made up of representatives from the Ministry of Education and the National Science Council, as well as scholars, parents, and teachers, elected Dr. Li-Ming Tai as the fourth principal through an open process, which was the first case of its kind in this country.

September 2003---Principal Li-Ming Tai's term ended, Dr. Wu Rong-Fong elected as principal.

August 2009---Principal Wu Rong-Fong resigned to accept the post of principal at The Affiliated High School of National Chengchi University, Dean of Academic Affairs Hsing-Neng Chung served as acting principal.

September 2009--- Dean of the Bilingual Department, Dr. Christine Huang appointed as principal.

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-==Wednesday==
-Every Wednesday, students are required to wear formal, yet very handsome, uniform to school throughout the entire day. Elemental School students are required to wear colored gym uniform based on their sex (Blue for males; Pink for females). Enrolling in Middle School, students switch out of their old uniforms and into a more sleek and handsome beige uniform button-up long sleeve shirt combined with a choice of navy blue pants or skirt. More female students generally prepare the navy blue skirt as the pants give off a more manly appeal. As the progression continues, students switch into a different colored uniform when enrolling in High School at NEHS. The High School uniform, although unattractive by color at first sight, is both comfortable and appealing. It features a pink button-up long sleeve shirt along with navy blue pants or skirts. Both long sleeve shirts and pants can also be ordered in their shorter alternatives, short sleeve shirts and shorts.
-Every Wednesday students are also required to arrive precisely before or at exactly 7:40 am.
-Every Wednesday, the Bilingual Department hosts a ceremony, popularly called the Flag Ceremony, which takes place from 7:40am to 8:00am. This tradition has long been taking place when the school was first opened. Every other Wednesday the Bilingual Elementary School students and the Bilingual "Middle School to High Scool" students takes turns in attending the Flag Ceremony. During this time the Bilingual Department honors the Taiwan country by singing the National Taiwan song and raising the flag to the top of the pole. The flag ceremoney takes place in literally the heart of NEHS. It is located around the small field right behind the entrance of the front gate. Infront of the field stands a platform housing the giant Taiwan flag pole. Students are required to stand on the field throughout the entire ceremony.
-Wednesday, or uniform day, is a very respectable day by respresenting the school's traditions. If there is ever a time when students arrive after 7:40am or are caught not wearing their uniforms (or tucking in their uniform shirts), they risk a chance of being assigned public service by the school's Disciplinarian, Min Yeh [http://www.facebook.com/#!/teacher.min Min Yeh's Facebook]. Recently, public service has been removed and replaced with detention and tedious writing assignments. These writing assignments include writing your misdemeanors and methods to fix is in one sentence. Afterwards the sentence is required to be written many times (usually more than 100 times) all in one paper and turned into the first floor faculty office, which houses Min Yeh. Although a very tough disciplinarian, he is also a very handsome and kind man with a heart of gold. In the past Min Yeh forced a student to scrub the entire tennis court because of the student's poor action in deciding to write a prom message on the tennis court floor. What made it worse was that it had rained the same day. Little did the student know that the disciplinarian Min Yeh was secretly filming the entire cleaning process on video.
-==Cleanup Time (3:00 pm)==
-Cleanup time takes place everyday from 3:00pm to 3:20pm. During this time, all students are assigned specific duties to take out, such as dumping out the food bucket, trash can, and recycle bins. Other duties include sweeping and mopping the floor, washing the blackboard, wiping off the counters, and various other chores taken out int he Public area. Wiping off the counters is considered to be the easiest and most relaxing job as a student may simply take a wet rag and wipe off the entire teacher's desk and counters in the time required to walk around the room. Clean up jobs that generally take place in the public areas are generally considered to be the most tedious and painful jobs; a combination of sweeping and bagging up leaves along with the constant swarms of mosquitoes attacks makes this job almost impossibly enjoyable. However, one may feel satisfaction knowing that they have just cleaned up one of the most difficult clean up areas.
-Although most students consider clean up time simply just a chore, there is much more to it. Every week, clean up awards are announced to the class with the best clean up evaluation score. This helps to spice up the boring regular chores into something more competitive and fun. During Flag Ceremony, lots of glory is gained when the class clean-up monitor is asked to walk to the front stage of the school to accept the week's cleanest room certificate.
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