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Asia Pacific Activities Conference or APAC
The Asia Pacific Activities Conference, or APAC, is an extracurricular competitive program for elite international school varsity arts and sports teams in the Asia-Pacific area. APAC was founded in 1995 with the purpose to provide an "interesting, well rounded program for international schools in the Asia-Pacific area" (iweb.saschina.com). For the 17 years that the APAC tournaments have been in existence, there have been tournaments involving international schools from Beijing, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Shanghai and Singapore. Every year a different school in a different location in Asia and the Pacific will host various APAC tournaments, thus students from international schools get the opportunity to travel within Asia and the Pacific to not only compete athletically and in the arts, but also experience new cultures and tourist destinations.

History
The Asia Pacific Activities Conference was founded in 1995 by the Association of the Board of International Schools. Initially it only involved international schools within China, but then expanded to include international schools in Hong Kong, Korea, Japan and eventually also schools in the Pacific. This competition then became very popular between rival international schools and subsequently turned into the most popular tournament for each sports division among international schools in Asia.

Owing to the fact that APAC is such a relatively recent tournament, it has garnered the attention of many international schools in the Asia Pacific area and therefore has many participation international schools.

Participating Schools
Each of the mentioned international schools compete in various athletic, arts and music competitions (all called APAC) throughout the school year (August - June). These competitions are hosted by a different school every year, and often because there is such a large number of schools competing in APAC, the tournaments are broken into two tournaments hosting six schools (instead of one tournament hosting twelve schools). In order to regulate fair and healthy competition between all of the international schools, there is a "Super APAC" every three years, in which all of the twelve international APAC schools compete.

Participating Schools at Present
After 1995 (when the APAC tournaments were established) American School of Guangzhou, Brent, the Canadian Academy, Canadian International School of Shanghai, Hong Kong International School, International School of Beijing, Shanghai American School Puxi, Shanghai American School Pudong, Seoul Foreign School, Western Academy of Beijing and United Nations International School now compete in the official APAC Tournaments for Varsity level teams. Several times every year each school will either send a team to another international school (for a specific APAC competition) or host an APAC competition. The hosting school will usually provide accommodation for the visiting APAC teams through home-stays (a process where visiting students are assigned to a host-student's house).

Competitions and Divisions
Arts:

Athletics

APAC and Corresponding Time of Year
Every year the next APAC is planned at least a year in advance, therefore even though each APAC may not be on the same exact dates at the ones before, they will be around the same time of the month. The following times for APAC are by month because there is not usually a concrete date for each and every APAC that will be held, although they always occur within the same month.

The corresponding time for APAC for all sports in the first season is October (e.g Rugby, Volleyball and Tennis), APAC for all sports that are in the second season occurs in February (Basketball), and APAC for all third season sports is in April (E.g soccer/football and badminton).