The category we chose to participate in for the competition is "Music and Art" Forms.

Our Community District Is:

Our school resides in Yonghe District, New Taipei City. Located near the southeast part of the Taipei Basin, it is linked by three bridges over the Xin-Dian River. Yonghe 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 World Religions Museum.

Project Outline:

From 1998 onwards the TCOCO were invited to perform abroad. Their travels took them to Australia, Japan, the Philippines, Malaysia and Korea. And 2009 saw the orchestra perform in Kaohsiung at the Bei-Gao Performing Arts Festival. Looking to the future, the TCOCO hopes to expand the influence of Chinese orchestral music. They want to inspire others to love the same music, and participate in more performances. They hope that more people will continue to help the spark of Chinese music continue to shine.

When doing research for the cyberfair, we thought the most important thing was sharing, sharing knowledge, sharing feelings, and sharing observations. This year we were drawn towards the TCOCO's music. We wanted to take the music, culture and community involvement of the TCOCO and share it with even more people. We also hope that by doing the cyberfair, we can grow and discover more.

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 their 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】：Apart from using lunchtimes to complete the work associated with the Cyberfair, we also some of our time outside of school time too. However as we can't forget about our studies, we had to work extra hard in class and not let the Cyberfair hold up our school work.
• 【Assigning jobs】：The long winter vacation happened to fall within the 5 month period of this project. Because families often have plans during this break, it was extremely difficult to find the shared time necessary to work on the project. As such, each team's head had to delegate jobs and responsibilities to each team member (cleverly done before the break started), and everyone worked together to seamlessly complete all tasks and assignments.
• 【Data Collection】：The TCOCO has been running since 1993. That’s already 20 years! They attended concerts big and small, at home and abroad. However, a lot of the information and photos from that time are not well archived and so we asked the TCOCO to provide some. We then sorted, scanned and archived the materials which was very complex. But after everyone worked hard at it and the TCOCO’s performances were ready to be presented.




• 【Interview】：For the cyberfair we had to interview many members of the Civic Orchestra. We’re a little introverted and not great at speaking to strangers. Luckily some of the cyberfair team had done interviews before. So those of us who are a little shy and quietly spoken could watch the others do interviews first. After lots of practice and official interviews, we became more and more confident. The hardest part of doing the cyberfair was meeting strangers face to face and interviewing them, but we had to overcome this in order to understand and get the materials we needed.
• 【Working together】：For this project we had to interview a lot of people. Every time we finished the interviews, it would take us an hour or so to type up a 10 minute interview. So we split up into teams of two. One person would listen to the interview and then other person would type. Working together meant we could finish it much more quickly.

Final Thoughts:

When doing research for the topic, we discovered that the Civic Orchestra members were like a family. For an orchestra to make each performance perfect, it must be able to work together as a team, just like we needed to when doing research. We must allocate and share tasks for us to be successful. We saw the team effort that the TCOCO puts into its performances, and selfless way they taught us about classical Chinese music and instruments. Also they allowed us to be there to record them practicing which was a very precious and rare moment.