Washington Metropolitan Association of Chinese Schools
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WMACS, or the Washington Metropolitan Association of Chinese Schools, is (as its name implies) an organization of Chinese Language Schools
in the Greater Washington-Baltimore Metropolitan Area
. WMACS facilitates communication amongst its member schools and is a member association of the National Council of Associations of Chinese Language Schools (see external links). WMACS also sponsors teacher workshops and speech and calligraphy contests for students, and also hosts an annual field day and track meet for its member schools.
"WMACS" is also often used to refer to the annual summer camp
that the organization sponsors for Chinese youth between the ages of 8 and 17. This weeklong residential camp has been offered since 1989. For some reason or another, this camp is immensely popular among its attendees and sees campers returning year after year, even returning as counselors after graduating high school. The camp has been held at:
Chinese school
In Western countries, a Chinese school is a school established explicitly for the purpose of teaching the Chinese languages and dialects to Americans with Chinese ancestry, Canadians with Chinese ancestry, Americans with Taiwanese ancestry, Canadians with Taiwanese ancestry, and the youth born in...
in the Greater Washington-Baltimore Metropolitan Area
Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area
The Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area is a combined statistical area consisting of the overlapping labor market region of the cities of Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C.. The region includes Central Maryland, Northern Virginia, and Jefferson County in the Eastern Panhandle of West...
. WMACS facilitates communication amongst its member schools and is a member association of the National Council of Associations of Chinese Language Schools (see external links). WMACS also sponsors teacher workshops and speech and calligraphy contests for students, and also hosts an annual field day and track meet for its member schools.
"WMACS" is also often used to refer to the annual summer camp
Summer camp
Summer camp is a supervised program for children or teenagers conducted during the summer months in some countries. Children and adolescents who attend summer camp are known as campers....
that the organization sponsors for Chinese youth between the ages of 8 and 17. This weeklong residential camp has been offered since 1989. For some reason or another, this camp is immensely popular among its attendees and sees campers returning year after year, even returning as counselors after graduating high school. The camp has been held at:
- American UniversityAmerican UniversityAmerican University is a private, Methodist, liberal arts, and research university in Washington, D.C. The university was chartered by an Act of Congress on December 5, 1892 as "The American University", which was approved by President Benjamin Harrison on February 24, 1893...
1989 - Towson UniversityTowson UniversityTowson University, often referred to as TU or simply Towson for short, is a public university located in Towson in Baltimore County, Maryland, U.S...
1990 - Salisbury State University 1991-1995
- Camp Hemlock, VA 1996
- Frostburg State UniversityFrostburg State UniversityFrostburg State University is a four-year university located on a campus in Frostburg, Maryland, in Western Maryland, and is part of the University System of Maryland. FSU is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.-History:...
1997-Present
WMACS Member Institutions
- 美京中華基督教會中文班 Chinese Community Church Chinese Class
- 巴城中文學校 Chinese Language School of Baltimore
- 哥城中文學校 Chinese Language School of Columbia
- 基督教華府中國教會中文學校 Chinese School of Chinese Christian Church of Greater Washington
- 德立華中文學校 Chinese School of Delaware
- 中華中文學校 Chung Hwa Chinese School
- 德明中文學校 Deh-Ming Chinese School
- 實驗中文學校 Experimental Chinese School
- 希望中文学校 Hope Chinese School http://www.hopechineseschool.org/board/AboutUs.aspx
- Fairfax Chinese Academy
- 立人中文學校 Fairfax Chinese School
- 蓋城中文學校 Gaithersburg Chinese School
- 希望中文學校 Hope Chinese School
- 黎明中文學校 The Li-Ming Chinese Academy
- 美華中文學校 Mei-Hwa Chinese School
- 新世界雙語學院 New World Bilingual Institute
- 北維中文學校 Northern Virginia Chinese School
- 博城中文學校 Potomac Chinese School
- 光華中文學校 Richmond Chinese School
- 洛城粵語中文學校 Rockville Cantonese School
- 洛城中文學校 Rockville Chinese School
- 興華中文學校 Shing-Hwa Chinese Academy
- 駐美代表處中文學校 TECRO Chinese School
- 華府慈濟人文學校 Tzu Chi Academy
- 華府台灣語文學校 Washington DC Taiwanese School
- 光啟中文學校 Washington Kuang Chi Chinese School
- 華府中文學校 Washington School of Chinese Language and Culture
- 維華中文學校 Wei Hwa Chinese School
- 僑委會中華函授學校 Wonderful Star Institute