TAIWAN
台灣的精彩，不只在你看得到的地方。
走進後台，看見讓這座島嶼運轉的真實力量。
四梯次
台灣 × 台美青年
每隊6–8人混編
超早鳥優惠
你有沒有想過——
你現在手上的那杯珍奶，背後是一道你從沒看過的風景？
一座山、一片茶園、一個在半夜工作的人、一條到達你手上的路。
這個世界大部分的事情，都在你眼睛看不到的地方發生。
後台台灣，就是要帶你走進這些地方。
和來自美國的同齡夥伴一起，用自己的眼睛觀察、用提問去理解、用行動去感受——
然後把這六天的發現，做成一支屬於你們小隊的 YouTube 影片。
🎥你是 YouTuber 見習生——從 Day 1 就接任務、累積素材，學企劃、練說故事，做出屬於你們小隊的影片
🌃凌晨出任務、走進一般人進不去的場域，看見台灣城市運轉背後的真實樣貌
🫙不只是「看」——你會設計活動、帶領小孩、送餐給無家者，從觀察者變成行動者
🌏走入移工、長照現場、地方社區，聽見課本裡沒有的故事
📱體驗台灣高中生的一天，也讓美國學生帶台灣人玩他們那邊的活動
🎬最後一天：YouTuber Challenge——用影片讓更多人看見台灣每個角落的人與事
這不是那種隔著玻璃看的校外教學。每一天有任務；每一晚，你的小隊要一起討論、一起想辦法、一起把素材剪進影片。
六天以後，你帶走的不只是記憶——而是一支你親手做出來的作品，和一段你走過的台灣後台。
在 AI 時代，孩子真正需要學會的是課本教不了的東西
後台台灣從真實世界出發，培養四項在 AI 時代最難被取代的能力：
三個城市，三種後台風景
每一站的核心體驗不同，但設計邏輯一致：走進真實場域、完成真實任務、拍出真實影片。
※ 以下行程為架構規劃，實際合作場域仍在洽談確認中，細部行程以報名頁面公告為準。
| DAY | 任務 | 上午 | 下午 | 晚上 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D1 | 🔍 任務啟動 | — | 報到、環境介紹、安頓 | 小隊成立、破冰挑戰、Mission Briefing |
| D2 | 💧 城市基礎的後台 | 日治時期水利設施健行＋水系統偵查任務 | 城市地下水管路探索＋供水系統完整走讀 | 士林夜市文化探索任務＋小隊成果分享 |
| D3 | 🏚️ 城市的另一面 | 台北歷史街區探索＋無家者議題場域走讀 | 在地社福組織帶領導覽（無家者支援系統） | 西門町擺攤實驗：你的選品，你的故事 |
| D4 | 🥦 食物的後台 | 凌晨批發市場體驗＋醜蔬果工作坊 | 台北車站周邊送餐志工行動 | 地獄廚房：用今天食材的料理挑戰賽 |
| D5 | 🏫 制服日常 | 台灣高中生活體驗（台灣學生設計帶領） | 美國學生分享交流活動 | YouTuber 養成任務：影片素材整合＋剪輯衝刺 |
| D6 | 🎬 YouTuber Challenge | 影片最後修整與排練 | 播出影片＋分享六天所見的台灣後台＋團隊回顧結業式 | 解散 |
| DAY | 任務 | 上午 | 下午 | 晚上 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D1 | 🔍 任務啟動 | — | 報到、環境介紹、安頓 | 小隊成立、破冰挑戰、Mission Briefing |
| D2 | 🍵 一杯手搖飲的後台 | 金瓜寮魚蕨步道水源探索＋水源偵查任務 | 坪林茶產業體驗（採茶、製茶、手搖飲實驗室） | 南雅夜市文化探索任務 |
| D3 | 🌊 海的後台：漁村探索 | 卯澳聚落走讀與石頭屋探索 | 海女文化體驗與潮間帶觀察（石花凍DIY） | 漁村共食與口述歷史圓圈 |
| D4 | 🐚 海洋的補丁：漁村共創 | 海岸志工行動（淨灘、寄居蟹換屋） | 漁村故事紀錄《海的故事》短影片 | 影片放映分享會＋里海守護者儀式 |
| D5 | 🏫 制服日常 | 台灣高中生活體驗（台灣學生設計帶領） | 美國學生分享交流活動 | YouTuber 養成任務：影片素材整合＋剪輯衝刺 |
| D6 | 🎬 後台影展 | 影片最後修整與排練 | Backstage Taiwan Film Festival 成果影展＋結業式 | 解散 |
| DAY | 任務 | 上午 | 下午 | 晚上 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D1 | 🔍 任務啟動 | — | 報到、環境介紹、安頓 | 小隊成立、破冰挑戰、Mission Briefing |
| D2 | 🐸 千塘之城 | 埤塘生態系統探索與水資源認識 | 穿青蛙裝進埤塘！棲地守護志工任務 | 影片素材初整理 |
| D3 | 👴 守護者聯盟 | 長照系統介紹＋日照中心場域參訪 | 長輩互動志工服務（含移工共同帶領觀察） | 中壢夜市文化探索 |
| D4 | 🍜 小東南亞 | 中壢小東南亞街區文化探索＋餐廳老闆教做東南亞料理 | 移工倡議 NGO 交流＋移工議題深度理解 | 議題反思＋影片故事整理 |
| D5 | 🏫 制服日常 | 台灣高中生活體驗（台灣學生設計帶領） | 美國學生分享交流活動 | YouTuber 養成任務：影片素材整合＋剪輯衝刺 |
| D6 | 🎬 YouTuber Challenge | 影片最後修整與排練 | 播出影片＋分享六天所見的台灣後台＋團隊回顧結業式 | 解散 |
四個梯次，選擇你的城市
真實的收穫，看得見的成果
兩階段報名制
後台台灣採取書面審查制，以確保每位學員準備好投入這段旅程。
甄選首要標準：態度的準備——比起任何條件，我們更在意你是否真的準備好要走進後台。
六人同行 NT$21,870
六人同行 NT$23,085
六人同行 NT$24,300
費用包含：6天5夜住宿、餐飲、交通、保險、制服、場地門票、講義、製作材料、成果發表、隨團隊長、專業指導。
You already have a connection to Taiwan.
This is how you go deeper.
Six days inside the places most visits never reach — with Taiwanese peers your age, making a film about what you find.
You know Taiwan. You have family there, memories there, maybe even Mandarin classes because of it.
But the Taiwan you know is a particular version of it — the one that exists in your family's stories, in the places relatives take you, in the neighborhoods you return to every few years.
There's another version running underneath all of that. A 3AM wholesale market where the city's entire food supply gets sorted and priced before sunrise. An atemoya — bumpy, unglamorous, extraordinarily sweet — sitting in a crate because it doesn't photograph well enough for the supermarket shelf. Thousands of ponds in Taoyuan that most people drive past their whole lives. Migrant workers and community builders doing essential, invisible work in places no tour itinerary has ever included.
The connection you have is real. Backstage Taiwan takes it somewhere new.
Six days with Taiwanese peers your age — doing real work, asking real questions, and making a film about what you find.
* Specific program locations vary by city session (Taipei / New Taipei / Taoyuan). Full itinerary on the program page.
This is not a tour where you watch things from a distance.
Every day has a mission. Every night your team reviews, debates, and edits together.
After six days, you leave with a film you made — and a part of Taiwan you actually walked through.
Your child already has a relationship with Taiwan — through your family, your stories, the language you've kept alive at home. That connection is real, and it matters.
What most family visits can't offer is time inside Taiwan's social fabric — alongside local peers, in the places that don't appear on any itinerary.
The American Volunteer Service Award (AVSA) is issued by Volunteer Scholars, a US nonprofit, to recognize youth and adults with a sustained commitment to volunteer service.
AVSA is open to all nationalities — no US citizenship required. Both Taiwan-based and Taiwanese-American students are eligible.
The 40 hours earned through Backstage Taiwan count toward the total. Students who accumulate 100+ hours can apply for AVSA recognition (Bronze / Silver / Gold). WCEO assists with the application process.
Learn more: volunteerscholars.org/avsa
US 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in Fremont, California in 1994. For three decades we've focused on family education, cultural exchange, and Asian-American youth development.
Over 50,000 youth participants to date. Long-term partner with Taiwan local governments on youth development initiatives.
A trusted institution with thirty years of records and government co-partnership in Taiwan — not a new organization.
Same design logic: enter real places, complete real tasks, make a real film.
* The following is a program framework. Specific partner venues are being confirmed. Final itinerary will be published on the program page.
| Day | Morning | Afternoon | Evening |
|---|---|---|---|
| Day 1🚀 Mission Launch | Arrival & check-in | Team formation · Mission Briefing | City observation task + team debrief |
| Day 2💧 The City's Hidden Infrastructure | Colonial-era water facility hike · water system investigation | Urban water pipeline walk · full supply system walkthrough | Shilin Night Market cultural exploration task |
| Day 3🏚️ The Other Side of the City | Historic Taipei neighborhood exploration | Local social organization walk (homelessness support systems) | Ximending free exploration · film footage collection |
| Day 4🥬 Where Food Comes From | 3AM Huannan wholesale market mission (produce selection · pricing observation · cleanup) | Ugly produce workshop · food system issues | Taipei Main Station soup kitchen delivery + Hell's Kitchen challenge |
| Day 5🏫 A Day in Uniform | Taiwan high school experience (Taiwanese students design & lead) | Taiwan–US exchange activities | YouTuber mission: footage review + editing sprint |
| Day 6🎬 Film Festival | Final film edit & rehearsal | Backstage Taiwan Film Festival — team screenings + closing ceremony | Departure |
| Day | Morning | Afternoon | Evening |
|---|---|---|---|
| Day 1🚀 Mission Launch | — | Arrival · orientation · settle in | Team formation · Mission Briefing |
| Day 2🍵 The Backstage of Your Bubble Tea | Jinqualiao watershed trail · water source exploration + team mission | Pinglin tea industry experience (tea picking & processing) | Nanya Night Market cultural exploration task |
| Day 3🎣 The Backstage of the Sea | Maoao fishing village walk · stone house exploration | Haenyeo diving culture · tidal zone observation · seaweed jelly DIY | Fishing village communal dinner · oral history circle |
| Day 4🌊 Mending the Ocean | Coastal volunteer action (beach cleanup · hermit crab habitat relocation) | Village story documentary: short film 'Stories from the Sea' | Film screening + 里海 Guardian ceremony |
| Day 5🏫 A Day in Uniform | Taiwan high school experience (Taiwanese students design & lead) | Taiwan–US exchange activities | YouTuber mission: footage review + editing sprint |
| Day 6🎬 Film Festival | Final film edit & rehearsal | Backstage Taiwan Film Festival — team screenings + closing ceremony | Departure |
| Day | Morning | Afternoon | Evening |
|---|---|---|---|
| Day 1🚀 Mission Launch | Arrival & check-in | Team formation · Mission Briefing | City observation task + team debrief |
| Day 2🐸 City of a Thousand Ponds | Bade pond ecological exploration | Frog-gear habitat conservation volunteer task + ecological survey | Findings share-out + footage review |
| Day 3👴 The Caregivers | Long-term care system + day care center visit | Migrant care worker observation and interaction | Team discussion: who takes care of Taiwan? |
| Day 4🌏 Little Southeast Asia | Zhongli Little Southeast Asia neighborhood walk | Restaurant owner cooking lesson + migrant rights NGO exchange | YouTuber mission: footage review + editing sprint |
| Day 5🏫 A Day in Uniform | Taiwan high school experience (Taiwanese students design & lead) | Taiwan–US exchange activities | YouTuber mission: footage review + editing sprint |
| Day 6🎬 Film Festival | Final film edit & rehearsal | Backstage Taiwan Film Festival — team screenings + closing ceremony | Departure |
| # | City | Dates (2026) | Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 🏙️ Taipei | Jul 12 (Sun) – Jul 17 (Fri) | Urban systems · Homelessness · Food supply chain |
| #2 | 🏙️ Taipei | Jul 19 (Sun) – Jul 24 (Fri) | Urban systems · Homelessness · Food supply chain |
| #3 | 🌆 New Taipei | Jul 26 (Sun) – Jul 31 (Fri) | Coastal fishing heritage · Haenyeo culture · Ocean conservation |
| #4 | ✈️ Taoyuan | Aug 2 (Sun) – Aug 7 (Fri) | Wetland ecology · Elder care · Migrant worker communities |
What we're looking for: attitude and readiness — not academic credentials.
Stage 1: Submit written application materials (application review fee included). WCEO team reviews and confirms acceptance.
Stage 2: Upon receiving your acceptance notice, complete payment to finalize enrollment.
| Tier | Dates | Individual | −5% Discount | −10% Discount | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group of 3 | 2 Sessions (same person) |
Group of 6 | 3 Sessions (same person) |
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| ⭐ Super Early Bird | 3/16–3/31 | $785 | $743 | $743 | $705 | $705 |
| Early Bird | 4/1–4/15 | $827 | $785 | $785 | $743 | $743 |
| Regular | 4/16+ | $870 | $827 | $827 | $785 | $785 |
* All prices in USD. Prices above are per person, per session. A 3.5% credit card processing fee applies.
Fee includes: 6 days / 5 nights accommodation, all meals, in-country transportation, insurance, uniform, venue fees, program materials, film production materials, closing event, team leaders, and professional facilitation.
US 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in Fremont, California in 1994. For three decades we've focused on family education, cultural exchange, and Asian-American youth development.
Over 50,000 youth participants to date. Long-term partner with Taiwan local governments on youth development initiatives.
A trusted institution with thirty years of records and government co-partnership in Taiwan — not a new organization.
BACKSTAGE TAIWAN 後台台灣 2026
In a world that keeps moving faster,
we don't just hope you can keep up —
We hope you become the one
who defines the destination.
Organizer: Wisdom Culture and Education Organization (WCEO) | US 501(c)(3) Nonprofit | 30 years of youth programs