Sixteen Chinese high school students won a space exploration
trip to the United States starting from January 26.
Rick Shangraw, Vice President of Arizona
State University
They were awarded the trip after the China Youth Space Academy's
final competition, a non-profit activity co-organized by China
Youth Social Service Center, china.org.cn and Arizona State
University (ASU). The results were announced on November 18 last
year.
According to the organizers, the students will be given an
opportunity to meet their American peers at ASU and visit ASU Mars
Space Flight Center, Lowell Observatory.
ASU, as one of the best comprehensive universities in America,
enjoys a high reputation in terms of Mars research and observatory
equipment. ASU professors will offer guidance on scientific
observation and academic papers to the visiting Chinese students,
and the university plans to offer four full scholarships for
four-year bachelor degrees to the top contestants of the China
Youth Space Academy.
"We have such an event in the United States as well, and I hope
it will be helpful to the scientific exchange between the two
countries," Rick Shangraw, Vice President of ASU, told Beijing
Review after last year's competition.
The students are scheduled to return to China on February 5.
(Beijing Review January 25, 2008)
