The University of Macau held an Open Day today (17 January). Many students, parents, and residents attended the event to learn more about the university, including admission information, teaching mode, and campus facilities, while experiencing firsthand the vibrant atmosphere of the campus. Some students and parents said that UM offers a wide variety of disciplines and its faculty team and facilities have reached international standards, so they consider UM their first choice for higher education.
The Open Day were held from 11:00am to 5:00pm, during which time various buildings on campus, including faculties, colleges, laboratories, the university library, and the Sports Complex, were open to visitors, with onsite staff to provide information about the distinctive characteristics and facilities of their faculties. There were also information booths, lectures, and information seminars to present the curriculum of each department as well as information about the residential colleges to enable students planning to pursue higher education to have a better understanding of their preferred academic programmes and the living environment of UM so they could make early planning for their studies.
Marques from a Portuguese school attended the Open Day with his parents. He considers UM his first choice and plans to apply to UM. Marques’ father is very supportive of his son’s decision, because he thinks UM has developed rapidly, and has reached international standards both in terms of faculty and facilities, which will provide good learning conditions for his son’s development.
Ms Cheng, whose daughter is in her third year of high school in Hong Kong, thinks that UM is a very good university because of its beautiful environment, strong faculty team, and good learning atmosphere. Leung and Lee, two students who are about to graduate from high school, attended the information seminar and found the detailed information and clear explanations very helpful in planning their university studies and course selection. They also highly praised the beautiful campus.
This year’s Open Day coincides with the 40th anniversary of the university, so the university held an opening ceremony for anniversary celebration. The anniversary slogan is ‘Set sail anew on the ruby jubilee’. The research team from the Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) gave two presentations titled ‘Set Sail for New Horizons—Artificial Intelligence Ushers in a New Era of Digital Economy in Macao’. In the first presentation, an FST professor shared the important role of AI in promoting smart tourism, smart finance, smart government, smart city development, and unmanned systems in Macao. In a separate presentation, an FST student shared the technologies behind unmanned intelligent vessels and their applications.
In addition to the above activities, there were also science lectures, creative workshops, fun experiments, booth games, performances, sports experiences, parent-child games, and other exciting activities, such as plant treasure hunts, mock courts, hand sanitiser DIY, paper airplane workshops, coffee tasting and brewing, sandpainting, autonomous bus exhibition, zebrafish show, archery, and ‘A Day at UM’ guided campus tours. These activities allowed everyone to experience the vibrant campus life, gain a better understanding of teaching and research at UM, and experience the rapid development of the university.
校慶開放日由上午11時至下午5時在澳大舉行，不同的學院、書院、實驗室、圖書館、體育館等均開放參觀，並有專人在場詳細介紹各院特色和設施，同時設多個諮詢展位、多場講座和簡介會，全方位呈現各學系的課程內容和住宿式書院的資訊，讓準備升讀大學的學生更了解心儀的課程和大學生活環境，及早做好升學規劃。
來自葡文學校的Marques跟父母一起參觀澳大，他表示澳大是他的首選，希望能到澳大升學。Marques的父親十分支持兒子報讀澳大，因為澳大發展迅速，無論師資和設施都達國際水平，良好的學習條件有助兒子的發展。
女兒正在香港讀高三的鄭女士認為，澳大環境優美，師資力量強且學習氛圍好，是一所非常好的大學，今次特意到澳大了解入學資訊，為女兒報考澳大做規劃。另外，即將中學畢業的梁同學和李同學參加了升學講座，認為資訊詳盡和講解清晰，有助規劃升讀大學和選科，他們還對澳大環境讚不絕口。
適逢澳大40周年校慶，開放日期間還舉行了校慶啟動儀式。今年的校慶口號為“不惑新航，揚帆追夢”，澳大科技學院研究團隊以“揚帆新航——人工智能開啓澳門數字經濟新紀元”為題進行演講，介紹人工智能技術如何帶動澳門智慧旅遊、智慧金融、智慧政務、智慧城市、無人系統技術等的建設和發展，同場還講解了無人智能船艇系統的應用和技術。
除了上述活動，澳大校慶開放日還有科普講座、創意工作坊、趣味實驗、攤位遊戲、表演、運動體驗、親子遊戲等精彩活動，例如植物尋寶、模擬法庭、自製消毒搓手液、紙飛機工作坊、品味精品咖啡及手冲體驗、沙畫製作、斑馬魚展、射箭體驗、“做一日大學生”校園導賞等，讓大家體驗多元的校園生活，瞭解澳大教研發展的同時，感受澳大的日新月異。
新聞來源：傳訊部
