On July 13, 2009, 59 summer campers from Macao middle schools came to XTBG to experience one day's summer camp for popular science. This summer camp was organized by Science and Technology Development Foundation of Macao Special Administrative Region (MSAR). Exchange Service Center of Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Bureau was responsible for the reception and harmonization work.
The first and most important item of one-day summer camp in XTBG was Orienteering . This orienteering was organized by Center for Public Education & Information, inviting Luo Hong as the designer and director, who is a Five-star Player of Orienteering and once took part in national and international orienteering contests. The 59 campers were divided into four groups to win the competition in one hour. There were 29 controls in total, that meant every group needed good team work and task division. All boys and girls pushed for the aim of finding all the controls. They really did their utmost and learnt a lot from this contest.
It's the first time that public education was involved in orienteering in XTBG. Absolutely, it's a successful trial, and will be expanded and deepened. It believes this will be attractive to many more people to be engaged.
After orienteering finished, campers attended to a scientific presentation named " Fig and Its Pollination Wasp" given by Yan Pei, a PhD engaged in fig & fig wasp research. They also toured about the garden, ravine rainforest and Tropical Rainforest Ethnic Culture Museum, and played team games. For them, it's really a tiring but wonderful and meaningful day.