Dear international students, April 21, 2025
In order to help more international students experience the fun of dragon boat sports and Chinese culture of unity, friendship, and striving for excellence, enrich students’ extracurricular life, and enhance their physical fitness, the School of International Education，the School of Publicity Office and the School of Physical Education jointly hold the 2025 International Student Dragon Boat Invitational.
As usual, the event is composed of an English lecture on dragon boat sport and dragon boat culture, two training sessions, and the final race. The schedule is as follows:
1. The English Lecture Topic Dragon Boat Culture in China Speaker Heng Shen, Lecturer of School of Physical Education, National Dragon Boat Race Referee Time On May 8th (Thursday) evening 7:00-8:00 pm Location ISO 301 |
2. Training Session 1&2 Purpose You will get hands-on experience with rowing the dragon boat, and the coach will introduce some stroke techniques and paddling basics that are important to run, steer, or hold the boat. Coach Heng Shen, Lecturer of School of Physical Education, National Dragon Boat Race Referee Time May 15th (Thursday) afternoon & May 22th (Thursday) afternoon 2:30—4:30pm Location Dragon Boat Training Base, Yujia Lake |
3. The Friendship Race Time May 29th (Thursday) afternoon 2:00—5:30pm Location Dragon Boat Training Base, Yujia Lake |
Only students who have participated in both training activity 1 and activity 2 can become official members of the final competition,So please make sure you have enough time to participate in the race on May 29th (Thursday) afternoon 2:00—5:30pm. Please arrange your classes and spare time in advance.
If you have spare time and you are interested to participate, please contact your counsellor to register and then finish this questionnaire: https://www.wjx.cn/vm/e8plgyk.aspx#
Should you have any question, feel free to contact Mr Leo through
leoiso@hust.edu.cn
School of International Education
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
