Friday, July 29, 2016
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| DRSS students James Lauricella, Kayla Cindric, Maya Quale, Anjali Phadke, Devin Wade, Aidan Schubert, and Brianna Perkins traveled to China this year through the Confucius Institute's Summer Bridge Program. |
BEIJING - It is fairly well known that the Dayton Regional STEM School requires all of its students to learn Chinese. What may be less well known, however, is that DRSS students have participated in Hanban's
Chinese Summer Bridge Camp program for the past six years, a program sponsored by the
Confucius Institute at Miami University.
This year was no different, and students James Lauricella, Kayla Cindric, Maya Quale, Anjali Phadke, Devin Wade, Aidan Schubert, and Brianna Perkins are wrapping up the experience with a visit to Beijing, China. Before that, the students were in Dalian, a city in Liaoning Province, where they attended a summer camp at
Liaoning University. At the camp, students experienced some amazing opportunities, such as volunteering
alongside Chinese students, engaging in cultural and athletic events, attending lectures on Chinese history, language, and
culture, and seeing many local cultural sites.
The trip may be ending soon, but the experience is ratcheting up as the students visited the Forbidden City in Beijing yesterday, which served as the seat of power during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
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| The entire Summer Bridge Program in Tiananmen Square, in Beijing. |
The trip is organized each year at DRSS by Lily Chen, who describes the experience as an amazing opportunity for the students to experience Chinese culture firsthand. Mrs. Chen would like to thank Mrs. Zao, the director of the Confucius Institute at Miami, and Ms. Liying Cui, the program manager for the trip, for making this opportunity possible for DRSS students.
The students will return on July 31st with some amazing memories and experiences to share.
Visit our album on Facebook to see many more of their pictures from the trip!
