【Reported by Jia-fu Gao, Tamkang Times】On November 12th the “2013 International New Taipei City Environmental Art Festival” took place. The old street of Tamsui was filled with enthusiastic spectators as they watched a displayed created by over 50 different groups of environmental protection and services.

Tamkang University’s boy scout troop had close to a hundred individuals dressed in costumes. They received a warm welcome from the participants on the old streets of Tamsui. The troops then shared their video from youtube involving their services and experiences.

One of the scouts and third year student of from the Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, Yi-hua Yang explained that next year is the 40th anniversary for the troop and that they spent over 4 months preparing and developing props for this particular event. The video can be found at（http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-j4XAg93nI&feature=share）

In addition this event also showed TKU’s plan of future development in cooperation with public services. Statistics Professor, Tzong-ru Tsai, explained that this is the second time Tamkang University has worked with public services to do analysis and social service work. Tzong-ru Tsai stated, “ I want to personally thank the Department of Public Administration for all of their help in not only social services, but also for giving students a great opportunity in analysis work.