Enter the dragon

A dragon dance kicks off a celebration of the new campus for the Mandarin Immersion Magnet School in Houston on Monday.Established by the Houston Independent School District in 2012, it's one of the largest immersion schools teaching Mandarin Chinese in the US. May Zhou / China Daily

Gimme an M!

Students from the Mandarin Immersion Magnet School form an M to celebrate the new campus. May Zhou / China Daily

Educational talk

Chinese Consul Duan Fenghua (left) talks to Chao-Lin Chang, principal of Mandarin Immersion Magnet School, at the opening ceremony. May Zhou / China Daily

Mandarin only, please

Students at Mandarin Immersion Magnet School learn Chinese, science and math in a Chinese-only environment. MMay Zhou / China Daily

(China Daily USA 10/28/2016 page14)