UM launches various summer camps for local and overseas students

UM's Biomedical Sciences Summer Camp aims to increase secondary school students' interest in scientific research

The University of Macau’s (UM) summer camps and other summer programmes have been quite popular among international students and secondary school students in Macao. This year, the university continues to organise summer programmes of different themes, including civil engineering, artificial intelligence, biomedical sciences, English, and Portuguese, to help students discover their talents and interests.

UM’s various English summer programmes and the Portuguese Language Summer Course (formerly known as the Portuguese Language Summer Programme) are among the most anticipated summer programmes. The Department of Portuguese at UM is the largest Portuguese department outside of Portugal and Brazil and is committed to producing bilingual language professionals proficient in Chinese and Portuguese. Launched in 1986, the Portuguese Language Summer Course has attracted students from around the world, including Australia, the United Kingdom, France, India, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. With an emphasis on interaction and practice, UM’s English summer camps include various interactive activities designed to encourage participants to learn and use English in an immersive environment, thereby boosting their confidence when speaking English.

One of the most popular summer camps, namely the biomedical sciences summer camp organised by the Faculty of Health Sciences, will continue to take place this year. Participants in this camp will be able to learn the basics of genetics, as well as cell and molecular biology, with the help of advanced laboratory equipment and biomedical experts at UM. Another popular summer programme, organised by the university’s Faculty of Science and Technology, this year will include seven camps, namely the Wireless Technology Study Summer Camp, the Civil Engineering Summer Camp, the Mathematics and Big Data Summer Camp, the Transportation Technology Summer Camp, the 3D Reconstruction with Quadcopters Summer Camp, the Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence Summer Camp, and the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Summer Camp. Participants in these camps will learn more about science through interactive games and scientific experiments.