Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen Provincial Administrative Organization, Khon Kaen Municipality, Publishers and Booksellers Association of Thailand (PUBAT), Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau (TCEB), Thailand Tourism Authority Khon Kaen Office and governmental and private networks collaborated in organizing the 8th ISAN BOOK FAIR 2020 and the 3rd ISAN STATIONERY FAIR 2020 under the concept, “Build Isan Society as a Reading Society,” and the topic, “Reading builds man, writing builds happiness.”
Tuesday August 18, 2020 at the Golden Jubilee Convention Center – Dr. Somsak Jungtrakoon, Khon Kaen Governor presided over the opening ceremony. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Maitree Inprasitha, Vice President for Education and Academic Service conveyed a reporting speech. Mr. Sitthikun Phukhamwong, Vice President of Khon Kaen Provincial Administrative Organization and Mr. Tawatchai Ruenromsiri, Khon Kaen Vice Mayor welcomed the participants and the senior manager of PUBAT explained about the support of the event.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Maitree Inprasitha reported, “The 8th Isan Book Fair 2020 is held under the concept, “Build Isan Society as a Reading Society” and the topic, “Reading builds man, writing builds happiness.” The fair is held from August 18 until 24, 2020 from 9:00 a.m. until 20:00 p.m. The fair is organized in 4 zones: Zone 1) Learning Exhibitions, cooperated by the regional education offices, features exhibitions as well as activities for students to enjoy and learn. Zone 2) is the book selling zone with 250 booths from 85 publishers, offering bargains from 20 to 80% and a lot of free items. There is a zone here offering one-price good books while another 30% of the area sells stationery and innovation office items. Zone 3) features central-stage activities where visitors are able to meet double-S.E.A write winners, Khun Angkhan Janthathip, writers from Isan Writer Association: Khun Somkid Singsong, Khun Pramot Naijit, Khun Prayoon Lasaeng and many more. There are also performances from the network members, competition in composing ad-lib verses and the second ISAN Cosplay Contest. A notable event is the Higher-Order Thinking in Mathematics Workshop. Zone 4) is for conferences, training, seminars and workshops, which in fact is in the same area as ISAN STATIONERY. There are workshops on painting pictures, crayon drawing techniques, line designing, coloring techniques, Classroom in the Future, Networking and Business Matching.”
Dr. Somsak Jungtrakoon said, “Khon Kaen is not only the center of Isan because of the geological location, but it is also the education and technological center because it is home for Khon Kaen University and many other universities. There are good public utilities and facilities in the city center. Many bus lines are operating around the city as well as many hotels ranging from economy prizes to the high-end ones. These are the elements behind the potentials of Khon Kaen. During the past ten years, Khon Kaen therefore has held many big events, conferences and seminars until TCEB established Khon Kaen as the 5th MICE city of Thailand. TCEB now supports and promotes many MICE industries. This book fair and stationery fair also represent the readiness of Khon Kaen to become a MICE CITY.”
“It is already known that Thai people read less, while statistics show more electronics reading. Reading is the basis of learning, and learning is the basis of quality people. Therefore, if Thai people read more, we will learn more. The country will then grow and prosper. The cooperation to hold ISAN BOOK FAIR this time can be thought as making the country prosper and increasing the quality of Isan people, as the concept of this fair “Build Isan Society as a Reading Society,” Dr. Somsak Jungtrakoon said.
In the event, the education and academic service section of KKU also organized the training on: Higher-order Thinking in Mathematics from August 18 to 19, 2020. On August 18, in the morning, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bandit Thipakorn, Former Vice General Secretary of the Higher Education Commission and Senior Vice President of King Mongkut University of Technology Thonburi gave a talk on: Computational Thinking and Humanity for Industry 4.0. The afternoon session featured a talk by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Maitree Inprasitha, Vice President for Education and Academic Service on: Necessary Higher-order Thinking for the 21st Century Entrepreneurs. There were more interesting topics on August 19. Interested, please visit: youtube: https://youtu.be/IqCrHcAnMK
The 8th ISAN BOOK FAIR 2020 and the 3rd ISAN STATIONARY FAIR 2020 is held on August 18-24, 2020 from 09:00 a.m. – 20:00 p.m. at the Golden Jubilee Convention, Center Khon Kaen University.
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