Aluno de Engenharia é selecionado pela embaixada britânica para representar Ciências Sem Fronteiras no Reino Unido

O aluno Lucas Chung recebendo a premiação do embaixador britânico no Brasil, em Recife, no início do mês

Lucas Chung Man Leung, aluno do 7º semestre do curso de Engenharia de Manufatura, conquistou o primeiro lugar do concurso cultural SwB UK Ambassador 2015, promovido pela embaixada britânica para selecionar um representante do programa Ciências Sem Fronteiras no Reino Unido. A conquista lhe dará a oportunidade de viajar para o país e, durante uma semana, participar de atividades acadêmicas e culturais programadas especialmente para ele. Lucas irá visitar algumas das mais importantes universidades britânicas e entrar em contato com professores e profissionais especialistas em sua área de interesse e que poderão orientá-lo quanto às chances de prosseguir seus estudos no exterior.

"Me sinto privilegiado por ter sido escolhido e sinto a responsabilidade da nomeação. Estou determinado a buscar toda e qualquer chance de promover nosso país por todo Reino Unido, assim como trazer para o Brasil as oportunidades e experiências vividas em um país de desenvolvimento exemplar, alta tecnologia, inovação e rica cultura", afirma o aluno. Lucas lembra ainda que o Reino Unido é o segundo país a receber mais alunos do programa Ciências sem Fronteiras, porém o primeiro em riqueza de experiências e oportunidades. "Garanto que é a escolha certa a ser feita por futuros alunos que irão participar do programa", disse.

Confira o vídeo da embaixada britânica no qual Lucas fala sobre o recebimento da premiação e também o vídeo produzido com o aluno pela Sheffield Hallam University, na qual o estudante realizou seu intercâmbio durante o ano de 2014.

O seguinte depoimento, em inglês, foi enunciado pelo aluno durante a etapa final do concurso, em Recife, para uma platéia que incluia estudantes de outras universidades brasileiras e autoridades britânicas e brasileiras. Nele, Lucas conta um pouco mais sobre sua experiência como intercambista do Programa Ciências Sem Fronteiras no Reino Unido. Confira: 

"What moves you? Studying abroad was always my dream. In fact, it might be the dream of many of us in this room tonight and actually some of us have accomplished it already. But do we stop here? Do we stop once we get the flight tickets? In this new and trendy digital era, we are going through a lack of involvement, lack of self-devotion. People get satisfied by just having a title on their CV, and forget what they truly take from each experience, forget to make the most of it. I’m moved by diversity, unity and equality. This search for diversity and willingness to learn more ignited me to apply for a Campus Job called ICE Club. My role was to receive students from the airport, orientate them throughout their studies and promote events and trips to unite and entertain them. This excitement in international collaboration and deep involvement with this job, whipped me up to create a Brazilian Day – “A Carnival in the Uni”. With several activities such as Capoeira dancers; live band; football game tricks; mask workshop and food tasting, the event was extremely successful and commented all the over the Uni. I felt accomplished for sharing a bit of Brazilian culture and demystifying loads of stereotypes that we go through. The recognition of this work I was doing came out as an award of the International Student of 2013-14. That made me so proud and drove me to do even more. That’s when I was called to be an International Ambassador for SHU, part of the Transform Yourself program. Then I had the chance to share where all my curiosity, involvement, willingness and excitement took me. I recorded a video that was shared around the world to talk about my experience and what Hallam and UK had done for me. Further on, as part of the SwB programme, I had to do either a research project or a placement. Fortunately I got an opportunity at Beta Technology, a consulting company. T`he peak of my journey there was an Award called Charles Hatchett which honors the best paper related to niobium in the world. That event put me in touch with “la crème de la crème” of scientific and business areas in metallurgical and materials studies, there I had the chance to meet top professors from the best schools and the chief executives of CBMM, the biggest niobium producer of the world. Finally, when I was back in Brazil I kept the contacts with UK and I’m doing whenever SHU promotes, an International Online Open Day on Livestream to talk with students about Life as a Student in the UK. Apart from that, I produced a video to talk about my experience in Beta Technology and what I’ve learned from that time, which is shared with all their stakeholders. And in my home uni I was part of a meeting to encourage students to apply for the Science without borders scheme. What I really want to say today is that each of us are Ambassadors of our own lives, we can be ambassador of any and many things. But when you do it, you must spread around everything you’ve learned, take out the best experiences and share every lesson be it inner to yourself or something you’ve achieved. If you go to UK and follow my thoughts, this movement will be huge! Because being an Ambassador, you don’t do it for the title, you do it for the cause!"