Confucius Challenge Episode 2
Channel: Phil Hoffman
Date: 15/10/2012

As part of China Week activities this week, Z-TV will premiere "Confucius Challenge" tonight at 10pm. The show is a collaboration between The Confucius Institute at The University of Akron and Z-TV, a student media organization that's part of the School of Communication. Z-TV can be found on channel 45 of the U.A. cable system.

All during Ch
ina Week, Z-TV will unveil a new episode each night at 10pm. The game show teams students from the U.S. and China in pairs, with the final team winning an iPad for each team member. Students face off in challenges that include trivia, singing, ping pong, and many other events. Each episode features an elimination round, where the contestants have to top each other in the day's challenge or risk being cut from the show. Top scorers can earn immunity, and bottom scorers wind up competing for their spot on the show.

You can also see Confucius Challenge at many of the locations for China Week activities, where each day's episode will be playing. After each episode airs, it will also be available online at the Confucius Challenge Facebook page:
www.facebook.com/confuciuschallenge

The program is intended to bring students from the U.S. and China together, to encourage cultural openness and appreciation for each other's language, traditions, and culture. And in the end, one team will walk away after bring crowned the Confucius Challenge Champions by University of Akron President Dr. Luis Proenza!

Z-TV's mission is:
• To involve students in a professional broadcast television experience, something students can't experience anywhere else.

• To achieve a high level of professionalism while providing involved students with the necessary hands-on work experience in management, sales, production, and reporting, all of which are needed to succeed in today's competitive workforce.

• To provide our student audience with shows they can't see on any other channel. To educate, entertain, and inform our audience.

The Confucius Institute at The University of Akron
The University of Akron's Confucius Institute is part of an international network, supported by the Chinese Ministry of Education, dedicated to enhancing the understanding of Chinese language and culture around the world. The Confucius Institute promotes the expansion of Chinese language instruction through a range of educational and outreach activities for students, teachers, businesses and community members...on our campus and in our communities.
The Confucius Institute is a cooperative project of The University of Akron, the National Office of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Chinese Ministry of Education and Henan University in Kaifeng, China. For more information, contact us at 330-972-2013 or nee@uakron.edu