Let teenagers enjoy their summer vacation endlessly, one wonderful journey after another

During the summer vacation,

A series of discussions about history, culture, science and technology

The wonderful journey continues to unfold,

Let the teenagers in Pudong

I spent a happy and unforgettable time.

"This summer, encountering Qingxi culture has benefited me greatly. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, passing through the old street of Gaoqiao Ancient Town, and my journey of a thousand miles starts from here." In the past two days, after participating in training and practical activities, Feng Xinchen, a member of the Qingxi Culture Propaganda Team and from the Experimental Primary School of Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone, was deeply touched.

This summer, Gaoqiao Town organized a "Qingxi Culture Lecture Team" training and practical activity for 30 students from 4 primary and secondary schools within the town, embarking on a wonderful journey to unlock the historical and cultural password of Gaoqiao. On August 28th, the one week practical activity officially concluded.

The Qingxi Culture Propaganda Team is a team with the mission of inheriting the historical and cultural heritage of Gaoqiao and conducting youth explanation and training. This event revolves around the concept of "nurturing new talents, passing on genes, strengthening literacy, searching for ancient towns, and showcasing style", and offers a series of educational and entertainment training courses, including immersive experience, exploratory learning, inheritance in practice, and grouped assessment.

During the tour of old street venues and the study tour of cultural heritage buildings, young volunteers enhance their knowledge of the history, culture, and cultural heritage of Gaoqiao by preaching about its culture; In pronunciation skills and posture training, enhance language foundation and presentation skills, exercise courage, and enhance language expression ability; In body language and sign language training classes, interact and communicate with sign language translators from the original Shangshi News Channel to learn simple sign language.

This activity lasted for a total of 23 lessons, with 6 outstanding students selected and 12 excellent art pieces collected. Additionally, 6 short videos of student guides were produced. Through training and practice, the young volunteers have gained knowledge, improved their skills, gained confidence in their services, maintained stickiness in their positions, and gained confidence in their culture.

Gaoqiao Town expressed its hope to form a list of student volunteer speakers through training and practical activities, establish holiday volunteer explanation service points and incentive mechanisms, and promote the transformation of volunteer service projects to normalization. In order to expand the service of characteristic cultural volunteer explanation, Gaoqiao Town will also use winter and summer vacations to offer characteristic explanation training in foreign languages, sign language, and other areas. In addition, cultural and historical experts and scholars from the city and district will be invited to establish the "Gaoqiao Historical and Cultural Research Teacher Pool", and regular historical and cultural training and campus preaching activities will be held every year.

It is reported that after the training, the small volunteers of the "Qingxi Culture Propaganda Team" will take turns to carry out volunteer teaching practices in the cultural venue of Gaoqiao Old Street, becoming a new force in the Gaoqiao volunteer teaching team.

Coincidentally, recently, the New Era Civilization Practice Sub Center and the Science Popularization Association in Xincun Street, Hudong, also held a variety of science popularization activities for young people, including visiting the "Ship Culture" Science Popularization Museum and the exhibition hall of Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard, listening to the firsthand experiences of the Planetarium, Antarctic scientific researchers, and the design engineer of Xuelong 2, and making walking "penguins" and "solar detection vehicles" by hand.

The "Ship Culture" Science Popularization Hall located at 258 Wulian Road is the first stop for youth summer science popularization activities, and also the newly added Pudong New Area Science Popularization Base this year. The exhibition hall takes "ships" as the theme, using graphics, text, physical objects, models, sand tables, magnetic levitation, video and other methods to promote scientific knowledge such as ship design, ship manufacturing, ship power, and ship navigation.

The relevant person in charge of the Science and Technology Association of Xincun Street in Hudong introduced that in addition to showcasing the function of education, the street will use the "Ship Culture" museum as its headquarters, gathering various excellent science popularization resources in Hudong. Using the "Science and Technology Hall" science popularization lecture platform, units under the jurisdiction of Shanghai East China Shipyard, China Polar Research Center, Shanghai Institute of Surveying and Mapping actively responded by selecting young engineers and researchers during the summer to give science popularization lectures on the theme series of "Building a Great Country" and "Polar Science Examination" for young students.

"The Shanghai Planetarium is too popular. What should I do if I want to go during the summer vacation but can't get a ticket?" "Children in summer daycare classes want a science popularization and handicraft activity, where can I contact them?"... Faced with the needs of residents, the street science association also worked together with the Planetarium Exhibition and Education Center, the street Youth League Working Committee and other departments to move the internet famous science popularization courses of the planetarium into the community, and brought science popularization lectures into the school's "Love Summer Kindergarten", leading young people to embark on a wonderful science popularization journey.

Partial text: Zhang Lei

Data: Hudong Xincun Street, Gaoqiao Town

*Reprinted from official WeChat account released by Pudong