我校学生前往麻省理工学院参加STEAM活动周NAESTEAMWeekMIT

四月底，四名NACIS学生前往位于美国波士顿的麻省理工学院，开启了一段美妙的旅程。麻省理工的顶尖专家们开展了有趣的活动，同学们乐在其中的同时，结交了来自世界各地的新朋友，感受了MIT的学习生活。

行程第一天，同学们环游了MIT校园，通过小组解密的方式揭开了一段MIT的光辉历史。接着，他们参加了工程工作坊，在那里了解了为大众市场行业开发产品的过程。最后，他们前往Boda Borg参加了一系列实践探索，培养了解密能力和团队合作精神，在挑战中发展了身心素养。

第二天，同学们领略了科学技术与生活方方面面的紧密联系，如：健康、艺术、音乐甚至是人工智能，他们通过编程完成了他们自己的可穿戴设备，用以测量人们的动作、体温和心率。他们还使用高端的设备和软件制作了属于自己的音乐，尽情感受音乐的魅力。

第三天，同学们参与了2.009课程。这是一门享有盛名的课程，培养出了许多世界优秀的工程师。我们的学生需要设计、建模、调试并且生产出一个玩具。他们和来自世界各地的孩子们一起协作，MIT的在读学生也在一旁予以援手，他们为孩子的创意出谋划策，并把他们的点子呈献给当天来访的三位CEO之一。整个过程中，NACIS学生展示出的专注与决心令人称道。

接下来的两天，大家参观了MIT博物馆、自然科学博物馆和哈佛大学，还畅游了波士顿。作为学校的代表，四位同学表现出色，度过了一段美好的旅途。无论你是否热爱科学，这次旅程都将让你受益匪浅。专业的学者与优秀的学生真切地为我们描绘了MIT的学习生活，给予了我们巨大的启发与鼓舞。

Last month, four NACIS students were given the amazing opportunity of going to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, USA. The students experienced a fun programme of STEAM-based and unique MIT activities, led by world-leading academics and students, as well as having the chance to make new friends from all over the globe and find out what it is like to be a student at MIT.

Day one began with a tour of the MIT campus with the children having to break code and work as a team to discover the secrets of MIT’s lustrous history. They then took part in an engineering workshop where they learned about the processes taken to develop products for a mass market industry. The day ended at Boda Borg, which tested the students’ code breaking and team building skills to the limit in multiple sensory, intelligence based and physical challenges.

Day two demonstrated the many ways that technology can be linked to other aspects of life such as health, art, music and even using artificial intelligence, like virtual reality, for psychological purposes as well as gaming. The students were able to make their own wearable device which they coded to measure a person’s movement, temperature or heart rate. They were also able to produce and mix music using professional hardware and software that is currently of the highest technology in the industry.

Day three was the prestigious 2.009 course which produces some of the top engineers in the world. The students had the task of designing, modeling, testing and producing a toy for today’s market. They had to work in teams of children from across the globe, alongside a current MIT student, who helped them to ideate and then pitch their ideas to one of three CEO’s that visited that day. The focus and determination presented by our NACIS students was fantastic!

The following two days were spent visiting the MIT museum, the Science museum, Harvard University and touring Boston, learning about its vibrant history. All students were excellent ambassadors for Nord Anglia and thoroughly enjoyed every moment of the trip. We would certainly recommend this experience to anyone, even if you don’t think Science is your favourite subject! The world-leading academics and students that we met were incredibly inspirational and gave us a real sense of what it would be like to study at such a high level at MIT.