Making the Most of Your Kids' Summer Holidays

Event Details

Summer vacation is coming up. Most children who have been studying at home for several months must be pretty excited about the upcoming summer break. But given the uncertainty of covid and travel restrictions, it's not easy for most parents to plan their summer holidays this year.

How can you better explore your city with your kids if you couldn't travel far? How to spend an 'edutainment' summer with fun activities? Do you want any tips for managing your kids' downtime?

AmCham China's SMEs & Entrepreneurs Committee and Education Committee jointly bring you a webinar with Marco Reyes, Founder & Managing Director of YMCE Group, Danchen Yang, Head of Learning at Duolingo China, and Xing Wei, Lecturer from VIPKid.

Please note:

This event will be conducted virtually. A meeting link will be sent to confirmed registrants on Jun 29 in the afternoon.
This event will be conducted in English. Please refer to the agenda below for details.

Highlights

The importance of outdoor education in 2022
Summer Camp - a proven model for growth

Secret learnings of "learning" by scientists
From theory to real-life scenarios, easily adopted for kids & parents
How to turn language learning into a gaming adventure

Discover the Beauty of China
The Importance of Traditional Chinese Culture
How to improve kids' interest in Traditional Chinese Culture

Speakers

Marco Reyes
Founder & Managing Director of YMCE Group
Native Chicagoan and graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Marco Reyes, has been based in Beijing since 2009 while founding his education business in 2010. He and his partners were the first to establish a US summer camp agency service for overnight camps in the US, while later building and operating their own American-style (Camp Greenwoods) camps in China for both the public and schools since 2016.

As for volunteer duties, Marco has served on the Urbana Campus Alumni Advisory Board, is current President of the Illinois Alumni Club of Beijing, the Big Ten Alumni Club of Beijing, General Secretary of an international camping board - the ICF, founding member of the China Camp Education Association, and more.
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Danchen Yang
Head of Learning at Duolingo China
Danchen Yang joined Duolingo in 2020 and she built Duolingo’s learning and curriculum team in China from scratch. Danchen‘s key responsibilities include curriculum design, content development, and course localization. Over the past two years, Danchen has led the design and iteration of the most popular courses for Chinese learners: English, Japanese, Korean and Spanish. She also initiated and oversaw the development of the first Chinese dialect course in China: learning Cantonese from Mandarin.
Before joining Duolingo, Danchen was Partner and Vice President of Teaching at Smartstudy Education Technology. The courses and learning management systems designed by her were used in over 100 universities and international schools in China.
Danchen graduated from Columbia University with a Master's Degree in Applied Linguistics and was a Chinese Teaching Associate at Columbia East Asian Studies.
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Xing Wei
Popular Teacher for Young Learners at VIPKid
9 years of teaching experience, Professional voice actor, Holder of TESOL Advanced Certification, TKT and CLIL
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Daniel Rosenberg
Director of Business Operations at Otus LLC
Daniel Rosenberg is currently the general manager for Otus China and is leading the charge for Otus’ expansion and adoption in the region. Previously he has held management roles at Alibaba and Ant Group as wells as an adjunct fellow at a prominent US think tank. He holds a Masters in China studies from Nanjing University and an MBA from American University. He is fluent in Mandarin. Daniel runs Beijing Lax a group that teaches and holds lacrosse practices.
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