Sunrise International Education

Sunrise International Education is a social enterprise that focuses on experiential education and extracurricular learning based in China and in the United States. It was founded in 2011 by Gavin Newton-Tanzer and David Weeks. Sunrise's activities consist of running competitions and conferences for students in East Asia, with a particular focus on debate, business simulation, Model United Nations, and drama. Its debate events are run in partnership with the National High School Debate League of China and the Association for Global Debate, and Sunrise debate students often travel internationally to compete at debate competitions hosted at Stanford, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Asia Society. Its business simulation league is the China Youth Business League, run in partnership with the Wharton China Business Society. Sunrise is the local co-organizer of the Yale Model United Nations China Conference, run in partnership with the Yale International Relations Association. Sunrise's events often feature low student registration fees that are subsidized by sponsorship from private education organizations or American universities seeking to engage students from China.