The category we chose to participate in for the competition is Business and Community Organizations.

Our Community District Is:

Our school resides in Yunghe City, New Taipei City. It is located near the southeast part of the Taipei Basin and is linked by three bridges over the Xindian River. Yunghe is as prosperous as Taipei city, and it is well known for its numerous small shops and attractions such as Korean Street, Weekend Farmers' markets, Yang San Lang's Museum and the World Religions Museum.

Project Outline:

How to promote reading at the grassroots elementary school level has been one of the big debates in education courses for some time. Reading can help improve one's language ability, experience the beauty of literature, and also help students establish a perspective on life.
Located in the Yonghe District, Small Small Bookshop began operations in 2006. Since then it has been doing its best to promote reading, and make reading a way of life for the community. Through a variety of workshops, book clubs and literary events the bookstore tries to promote reading within the local community.
We hope that from our research on this topic, we can let people discover the joy of reading and make it a part of their life. Through interviews and getting involved in activities, we hope to discover the passion of the lovely people of Yonghe. We also hope this experience can help them rediscover their local community and what it has to offer. Finally, we hope that we can help our school and the local community discover the joy and passion that reading can bring.

Our Internet Environment:

We utilized our school's ample computers to access the Internet: there are 50 computers in the computer lab, 4 computers in the library, each classroom also has its own computer and all of these have direct access to the Internet. Having convenient access to these resources really helped us in facilitating our projects' needs and getting work done.

Challenges and Obstacles We Overcame:

Class time

In order to complete the production of the website, we used not only our break times and lunch times, but also after school and weekends. We also came to school during our winter vacation in order to finish the project. One of the conditions of joining the team, was that it must not interfere with our regular studies. So during class time, we were extra focused and used our time wisely to get our regular work finished with enough time to complete the cyberfair project.

Work Allocation

This time our activities included conducting interviews, attending events at Small Small Bookshop, and a host of other community events. At each event, we all had a number of different missions. We chose jobs to match each team members' individual talents. Each member worked hard to complete their job and help others to get the job done.

Collecting Material

We wanted to really understand Small Small Bookshop and related organizations so we all spent a long time searching online, at the library, and conducting interviews to find information. It took us a long time to figure out how to sort out all the data in a way that we could present as a website! Finally, we also need to thank Small Small Bookshop and all those who allowed us to interview them for the information they provided.

Transcribing

To ensure that the information is correct, after every interview we typed up the conversation. A short thirty minute interview ended up taking between three and five hours to transcribe! Because of this we broke up each interview into small pieces and shared out the workload.

Final Thoughts ：

Since starting this cyberfair project in August of 2012, we have learned a lot of special knowledge that we couldn't have picked up from reading a textbook. We also learned how to work together as a group and share a workload. Although it has been a long hard road, it has also being extremely fun and we now have a real sense of achievement. During our research we discovered that running a bookstore is not very easy. Apart from having the passion and interest in books, you also need to have the will to work hard and the determination to never give up. In addition, you need to be a constant source of creative ideas and have an incredible imagination. Then, maybe you will be ready to open a refreshingly unique bookstore.