An aerospace dream for students at summer camp
- By Chen Boyuan
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Middle school students from Laiyuan, Hebei Province attend a lecture on aerospace at the CAAA on July 11, 2016 during their week-long summer camp. [Photo by Chen Boyuan / China.org.cn] |
Forty high school students from Laiyuan in Hebei Province are getting a chance to be close to China's latest aerospace technology during their themed summer camp, which started on July 11, 2016, at the China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA) in Beijing.
During the week-long summer camp, the CAAA will arrange guided tours to showcase wind tunnels and the Caihong (CH, or rainbow in English) series unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), both major lines of business for the CAAA.
Later this week, the students will also get a chance to visit carrier rockets, missiles, recovered satellites and space modules, following the CAAA's coordination with sister academies in the aerospace industry.
The aerospace-themed summer camp is the first of its kind organized by the CAAA, which, while in rapid development in its twelfth year since establishment, tries to help the public better understand China's aerospace undertakings. Holding the summer camp would "sow the aerospace seeds" in the hearts of the students, said Zhao Kun, the chief of Party discipline for the CAAA.
All the 40 students are about to enter their final grade in senior high school, and in roughly a year's time, each of them will pick up a major for university study, one of the first choices in life. Choosing these students for the summer camp was the result of careful consideration, said Gao Mingjun, who chairs the trade union of the CAAA.
"Some of the students may return home in a week more interested in aerospace technology. They may be prone to choose aerospace as their university major," said Gao. "Ideally, experts and even academicians will arise from these students in decades' time, and today's tour at the CAAA may be their reasons to engage in the aerospace industry."
Likewise, the CAAA hopes that the students would spread their hands-on experiences of the aerospace industry to their peer classmates back home so that the limited summer camp members could spread aerospace knowledge to an unlimited number of people.
But the CAAA clarified that the summer camp's intention was "not restricted to educate more aerospace colleagues," but raise the entire nation's awareness of aerospace, science and beyond.
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