On 30 June a group of Hong Kong youths came to attend the annual “Youth New World Summer Camp” at UIC, organized by the Academy of Continuing Education (ACE).
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| Students that attended the “Hong Kong Youth New World Summer Camp” |
The youngsters attending were from Youth New World, a Hong Kong non-governmental organization. This year there were around 120 candidates: 80 students and 40 staff. The duration of the programme was 4 days, from 30 June to 3 July.
The “Youth New World Summer Camp” programme is aimed at letting the participants gain keen insight in the general concept of education in Mainland China and Hong Kong. The programme also aims to improve friendship, encourage team spirit and broaden vision and thought beyond the limit of Hong Kong via field trips, activities, communication and discussions.
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| The students took part in an English lesson |
During the four-days, the team went on a campus tour, received a special English class taught by a native English teacher, took part in a bicycle challenge programme, the Experiential Development Programme, Orienteering, a D.I.Y BBQ and made a field trip to a water cultivation vegetable base in Zhongshan.
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| There were many aims and goals of this programme including encouraging the students to build friendships as well as inspire students’ capability of self-innovation through activities |
This programme allowed the students to know the development and general situation of the education in Mainland China and Hong Kong, get a better understanding of the development situation in Pearl River delta region and widen their thoughts through a field trip. Improving the understanding of Chinese culture in order to cultivate their identification and sense of belonging to their country through experimental study was also an aim of this programme. In addition, the programme wanted to inspire students’ capability of self-innovation through activities as well as make them know and learn from each other through the above-mentioned activities. The final goal was to have students rethink their prospective plans via summarizing their experience during the activities.
For more information, please contact UIC's Academy of Continuing Education.
Reporter: Samuel Burgess (MPRO)
Photographer: Lancy Zhang (MPRO)
(with a special thanks to ELC)
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