What's Up Wudaokou: This Week's Best Events in the Heart of Studentland
What's Up, Wudaokou? Whether you're at Tsinghua, BLCU, Peking University, or even Google, there is an event for you in Haidian. In this series, we round up the best innovation, entrepreneurship, technology forums and workshops as well as student-related events. Don't worry, we'll even sneak in the occasional happy hour...
Sunday, Jan 27
Technology in Southeast Asia: Outside Looking In
Southeast Asia has been attracting increasing attention from entrepreneurs and capitalists from both within and outside the region. Chinese entrepreneurs and Investors are among the first few batches of groundbreakers to set eyes on the area, as their home market’s competitiveness and saturation led some to the exodus. In partnership with Global Shapers Beijing, Tsinghua SEM X-elerator will host this talk on tech in Southeast Asia, with a panel that includes active China-based experts, investors, entrepreneurs, and executives. Free (click here to register). 10.30am-1pm. Tsinghua SEM X-celerator
Popular Robotics-Robociti Workshop: Mars Rover Obstacle Avoidance
In this workshop, students will create a wheeled robot similar to the robotic rovers sent to explore planet Mars by NASA, such as Mars Rovers Opportunity and Curiosity. Once complete, they'll set them off through a challenging obstacle course, navigating potential hazards with the use of sensors and other gadgetry. RMB 150, RMB 100 (students) (click here to register). 1-6pm. Tsinghua X-LAB
Till Sunday, Mar 3
Americans Abroad | Landscape and Artistic Exchange, 1800–1920
In this exhibition, 50 works by American artists who traveled to Europe in the 19th century are grouped into four categories: Landscape and National Identity; Tourists, Students, and Expatriates; American Artists and French Impressionism; Coda: Landscapes of Modernity. The works, which date from the early 1800s to the 1920s, demonstrate how the art of England, the Netherlands, Germany, France, and Italy influenced American landscape painters and how they in turn used those styles to capture North American nature in a magnificent narrative style and charm. RMB 20. 9am-7pm. Tsinghua University Art Museum
Daily
Pyro Happy Hour
Head down to Sugar Shack Pizza any day of the week for great deals on pitchers, shots, and food. There's also karaoke night on Wednesdays or beer pong tournaments every Thursday, should you want to add a competitive element to your brew consumption. Free. 8-10pm. Sugar Shack Pizza
Lush Happy Hour
Alternatively, kick off the party at Lush with their nightly happy hour. All cocktails and mixed drinks are buy 2 get 1 free – including king-sized and even "epic-sized" cocktails. Free. 7-9pm. Lush
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Photos: Wikipedia.org, Patrickroque01, courtesy of event organizers
