Andrew HS Global Expo shares facets of cultures

Global Expo is an annual event sponsored by Andrew High School’s Project Diversity, a club that promotes cultural awareness and celebrates diversity. It is a showcase in which club members have an opportunity to share important facets of their culture.

Each region of the club – Latin America, Middle East, Europe, Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia – has a booth with various artifacts representative of its history, traditions, daily practices, etc. Artifacts can include anything from food and music, to clothing and crafts.

This year, regions showcased traditional clothing, toys and masks (Latin America), traditional prayer beads, prayer rug, and tea with sweets (Middle East), as well as traditional German clothing and toys (Europe). There were traditional Nigerian clothing, accessories and maps (Africa), Indian and Pakistani clothing and jewelry (South Asia), half shelled coconuts called “latik” used as percussion during traditional dances (Southeast Asia) and much much more!

During Global Expo, students and staff members are free to peruse the booths during their lunch period, exploring artifacts and tasting treats. Club members, primarily region leaders and officers, work their respective booth, providing tidbits of information and answering questions. At each booth, visitors get a stamp on their Global Expo passport. Once a passport is filled with a stamp from all six booths, it can be traded in for a raffle ticket. Later, three tickets are drawn from the raffle and the winners are announced.

Photo 1: Allison Leslie and Chardelle Derogene representing Europe and Africa with traditional articles of clothing and artifacts from all over Africa and Europe.

Photo 2: Tesneem Muhammad, Maryam Muhammad, Humza Said, Naif Salem and Sief Salameh all representing the Middle East. These students brought tea and sweets for all to try as well as many intrinsic artifacts.

Photo 3: Upasana Pathak, Ashley Anil, and Jesty Varghese all representing South Asia with beautiful vibrant colored clothing and extravagant jewelry.

Photo 4: Kristopher Castaneda and David Sandoval representing Latin America with a variety of masks, sombreros and many beautiful artifacts from all around Latin America.

Photo 5: Jawan Manzano, Angelica Garcia, and Diego Serapio representing South East Asia with traditional clothing, money and much more from South East Asia.