Cub reporters develop skills while having fun
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EVERY child is curious about the world around them. Over the summer holiday, young attendees of the Shanghai Daily Student Reporter Training Camp learned how to prepare questions for interviews and write their very own articles. They were also given a chance to go outside the classroom and interview people in the real world.
Starting with a brief journalism class taught by Shanghai Daily reporter Wang Yanlin, these cub reporters learned about the basic process of newspaper editing and skills frequently used during interviews.
After that, the cub reporters were guided through the newsroom of Shanghai Daily. Once they understood the basics of how a newsroom works, the cub reporters were taken out into the city to do interviews.
Food challenge
The first stop for them was Carrefour’s Jinqiao and Xuhui locations. At a quality assurance laboratory inside the store, they were required to wear lab uniforms with goggles and gauze masks. An expert demonstrated the process of examining vegetables and fruits for chemical residues, and each got a chance to try this on their own. Everyone was excited to see their pH strips turn different colors by chemical reaction.
They also learned about the Food Pyramid, a diagram representing the optimal number of servings to be eaten each day from each of the basic food groups.
Then came the “50-yuan Shopping Challenge” for the cub reporters. Each got a 50-yuan gift card and instructions to buy food for a meal for their mom. With the money they received, they also needed to pick foods they thought fit best with the food pyramid.
“It is the first time I go shopping on my own. I have to decide the ingredients for tonight’s meal,” said Arvin Yu. “Here I got meat, egg, shrimp, carrots, potatoes and rice to cook egg fried rice.”
Later, Carrefour’s expert selected one of the cub reporters, Peter Fei, as the challenge’s winner for his outstanding performance.
“I think I know a lot more about how to eat healthier,” said Fei. “In the past, it was always my mom who took charge of the meals, but now I can be her helper and tell her which kind of foods are good for us.”
Science in action
Next stop was Covestro, located in the Jinqiao Export Processing Zone. As a world-leading manufacturer of high-tech polymer materials, its products and solutions are nearly everywhere in modern life, including on computer keyboards, soccer balls and mattresses.
After quick introduction, employees from the company showed a video on the brand’s history and talked about safety in the company’s laboratory.
The Q&A session raised questions like “how to identify different liquids?”; “Where do you place your personal items?” and “Can female scientists wear makeup?” The staff members answered the questions one after another patiently, while the cub reporters jotted down the answers into their notebooks.
After the interview, the young reporters took a quick tour of the company, including its chemical labs and processing lines. Then they watched a “foaming mushroom” chemical reaction display and took part in an interactive chemical experiment show performed by science teachers from Mad Science.
The event ended with a fun chemistry competition. The young reporters were divided into four groups where they raced to put together chemistry puzzles and answer simple chemistry related questions.
“I was totally amazed at how professional and serious those young reporters were today. And it was such an enjoyable experience for everyone who was involved. I think that is the goal of our activity, to let the kids see the light behind chemistry, behind the science,” said one staff member at Covestro.
Basketball fun
The last stop was the NBA Playzone where our cub reports discovered basketball and developed their love for sports.
The basketball-themed play area features several attractions including the Arena, Dunk Zone, Halftime Live, In the Paint and Measure-ups.
They were first brought to a meeting room and received an introduction to the NBA. Our reporters took notes quickly and learned that the NBA is the world’s biggest sports association with an audience of over 6.9 billion.
With this knowledge, the kids were brought to start their real basketball playing experience.
On a roughly one-third the size of an NBA regular court, the cub reporters were taught basketball fundamentals and received training used to develop the star NBA players of tomorrow.
After learning some basic skills, they went to the Dunk Zone to see their progress after training. Along with the applause, the bear mascot of the Rockets appeared on the stage, introducing the history of all existing basketball teams to our cub reporters. In an enclosed trampoline space, each kid got a chance to play with the mascot and present their own high-flying dunking skills.
“I am a big, big basketball fan and today I take lots of notes on NBA teams, their histories and team mascots,” said Ethan Dong. “I am practicing basketball very hard and will achieve my dream of playing basketball on the NBA courts.”
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