23 Faces, 26 Languages, 23 Countries, 5 Educational Institutions, brought together in 1 City.

Check our this video showing the countries represented in the 2013 ACT International Student Ambassador Program. The video has been produced by the ambassadors.

The ambassadors, who began the program in March this year, come from 19 different countries including Canada, China, India, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. They have been studying at ACT tertiary institutions including the Australian National University (ANU), University of Canberra, Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT), UNSW Canberra and the Australian Catholic University.

Throughout their time as ambassadors the students attended a range of cultural, social and sporting events, as well as some more formal sessions covering politics, history, business and innovation.

The ACT International Student Ambassador Program, an initiative of the ACT Government’s Global Connect program, aims to leverage the international student experience in Canberra as both an international education marketing tool and as a skills network that can promote the ACT economy. It aims to ensure that international students feel welcome in Canberra and to build on the growing number of advocates or ambassadors for studying, living and working in Canberra.

This is the forth group of ambassadors to go through the program with the students now joining an alumnus of other ambassadors that can actively promote Canberra as an education and learning destination to the world.

To find out more visit the ACT International Student Ambassador Program website .

Leading up to last month’s TEDx Canberra event we shared a video from one of our ACT International Student Ambassadors, Amy Zhang, on the top three things she is looking forward to when attending the event.

Amy’s back, this time with her quick 1 minute review of the event!


You can also find out more about TEDx Canberra 2013 in our previous blog post: Canberra gets inspired with TEDx.

Our ACT International Student Ambassador, Amy Zhang will be heading along to TEDxCanberra  on 7 September 2013!

Here she shares with us the top three things she is looking forward to when attending the event.



The ACT International Student Ambassadors program is an initiative of the ACT Government's Global Connect program, as identified in Growth, Diversification and Jobs: A Business Development Strategy for the ACT.