2016級學生趙旭當年作為新生獎學金獲得者入讀劍橋課程，入學後的兩年間在各方面表現都非常突出，數次獲得課程一等獎學金。她愛好廣泛，除了在學習上永爭第一之外，也非常注重綜合素質的提高。這一次暑假，她通過自己的努力如願參加了倫敦國際青少年科學營，在那裡度過了極度忙碌但眼界大開的兩周。小編現在就為大家奉上趙旭同學在忙碌的間隙撰寫的遊學體驗。特別註明，所有英文部分均為趙旭本人撰寫，小編一字未改！當然，為了方便大家閱讀，小編特意配上了中文翻譯。
編註：英國是近代科學技術的發源地，也有著悠久的科技教育傳統。在面向青少年的科學教育中，英國較早啟用了科學營的形式，倫敦國際青年科學營（London International Youth Science Forum，LIYSF,）就是其中的代表。自1959年起，英國文化協會（British Council）開始主辦倫敦科學營。每年有約50個國家和地區的200多名青年學生參加這項活動。
This Summer Holiday I was granted theopportunity to attend the 56th London International Youth Science Forum, the so-called 「science fortnight」, which was mainly held at ImperialCollege London where all the amazing adventures began.
今年暑假，我有幸參加了第56屆倫敦國際青少年科學營，即傳說中的「科學遊學兩星期」， 論壇在英國帝國理工大學舉辦，這裡是我探索卓越的旅程起點。
Back in school, I was neither introvert normuch of a talker, but somehow on the first day of the forum, I was encouragedto walk out of my comfort zone and say hi to any strangers. Turned out in thatway I met loads of new friends coming from all over the world with the samepassion for science and through much daily interaction some of us became thebest friends ever during the two weeks.
在學校裡，我不內向但也不健談，然而在科學營的第一天，我在主辦方老師的鼓勵下試著挑戰自我，向來參營的每一個陌生人打招呼。結果是可喜的，我認識了很多志同道合的新朋友，他們來自世界各地，對科學充滿熱情，通過兩星期的相處，我和一些朋友的友誼進一步加深，成了無話不說的好友。
We had lectures on the most cutting-edgetopics in science from some of the top researchers and professors around theglobe, flying all the way to Londonto pass on knowledge and spirit of science and technology.
在課上，我們學習到了很多前沿的科學知識，我們的老師均是來自全球的頂尖研究學者和教授，他們在百忙之中抽空飛到倫敦來向我們傳授知識，傳達科學精神。
Professor Fiona Watt from King’s CollegeLondon, for example, gave us a comprehensive introduction on stem cells andtheir applications in modern medicine. She began by explaining to us what was astem cell , moved on to discuss possible future developing directions of stemcell therapy, then highlighted some of the social issues on the topic(especially the difficulty in clinical trials), and finally wrapped up thelecture by showing us a photo of her lab members whilst reminding us of theimportance of universal endeavor-our theme of LIYSF this year- in scienceadvancement.
例如，來自倫敦國王學院的FionaWatt教授向我們介紹了幹細胞以及其在現代醫學中的應用。首先她向我們介紹了什麼是幹細胞，接著討論了未來發展幹細胞療法的可能性，她還指出了該療法可能會引起的社會問題（尤其是在臨床試驗上有困難），最後，她向我們展示了一張她與她實驗室成員的合影，提醒我們國際合作(universal endeavor)在科學進步中的重要性，這正是本次科技營的主題。
Some other lectures were also asinteresting and informative-like 「The Amazing Boron Hydrides」 given by Dr.Michael G.S. Londesborough from Czech Academy of Science. His videos onexperiments of Borane as well as live demonstrations in the lecture room wereso eye-catching and of high quality that together with his humor his lecturewas unofficially rated to be invincible.
另外一些課也生動有趣，信息豐富。例如來自捷克科學院的Michael G.S. Londesborough博士帶來的「神奇的硼氫化合物」。他為我們播放了硼氫化合物實驗的錄像，並親自在課堂上做了現場演示，非常吸引我們的眼球，這是一節高質量的科學實驗課，再加上他的幽默，Londesborough博士的課在私下被我們評為最佳。
But then a few days later Dr. CyrilIsenberg from the University of Kent broke the recordby his lecture on 「Bubbleology」-he introduced the history of bubbles in humanhistory with a half-broken, half-screaming old slide projector, then showed ushow bubbles were able to solve mathematical problems. He dipped all kinds ofmetal structures (with only edges) inside the soap water and created a kingdomof not only normal, colorful bubbles, but also concentric ones. The normalbubbles were able to reach an equilibrium of their surfaces and present us acentral point(or a small surface in some cases) with the shortest total lengthpossible to each vertex. It could have taken us hours to crack a problem likethat, but with bubbles it was only a matter of an instant.
但幾天後，來自肯特大學的Cyril Isenberg博士就打破了Londesborough博士的記錄。他的課的主題是「氣泡學」。他在一臺又老又舊幻燈機上播放並介紹了氣泡在人類歷史上的發展，然後向我們展示了如何利用氣泡解決數學問題。他把各種金屬架子（有邊角的）浸入肥皂水裡，製造了一個五彩繽紛的氣泡王國，有單個的普通氣泡，也有幾個套在一起共享一個軸心的氣泡。那些普通的氣泡的表面會處於最穩定的形式，自然形成最短的軸心線。類似的幾何問題需要我們花上幾小時去破解，但有氣泡為例我們能在一瞬間領悟到問題的關鍵。
There were, of course, many other interesting lectures and demonstrations, duringwhich there were many surprises for us too. Take the lecture 「To Catch a Comet!」for example, Professor Mark EcCaughrean from the European Space Agency showedus a real rocky-thing (not technically a rock though, because of the densitydifference) from space and it was passed on in the audience for us to touch!Later on, he played a short sci-fi film (of Hollywoodquality!) on comets and planets by ESA, and you couldn’t possibly imagine howsurprised I was to recognize Aidan Gillen from the Game of Thrones.
還有很多有趣的課和實驗，幾乎我們在科技營的每一天都有驚喜。來自歐洲航天局的Mark EcCaughrean教授的課的主題是「抓住一顆彗星！」他向我們展示了一顆真正來自太空的石頭（嚴格意義上來講那不是一顆石頭，因為密度不同），他讓在座的學生依次傳遞它，每個人都有機會近距離觀察並撫摸它！然後，他播放了一段由歐洲航天局製作的關於彗星和行星的科幻片（與好萊塢電影的水準相齊！），我居然在裡面看到了美劇權力的遊戲的演員Aidan Gillen！
I wouldn’t go into details of the rest ofthe lectures since it would probably take days trying to go through each one,as every one of them was unique in its own way.
由於篇幅限制，在此我就不一一介紹其餘的主題課了，對我來說每一堂課都有它獨特的地方。
（在下篇中趙旭同學將講述遊學兩星期課堂之外的精彩體驗，敬請期待！）
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