STEM Education Enriching Knowledge Series: Guided tour in Central Market & “3D printing x Architecture: Our Central Market” Design Thinking Workshop

Date:
15 JULY 2022, 20 AUG 2022


Title:
STEM Education Enriching Knowledge Series: Guided tour in Central Market & “3D printing x Architecture: Our Central Market” Design Thinking Workshop


Venue:
Legacy Hall, 1/F, Central Market 93 Queen’s Road Central, Central  


Description:
The programme aims to:

  1. Enhance participants’ understanding of the architectural features of Central Market;
  2. Facilitate participants to promote STEM education in schools through teaching design thinking and prototyping.

Event Details

The Fourth Future Engineer Grand Challenge

The Fourth Future Engineer Grand Challenge


Co-organisers: Hong Kong STEM Education Alliance, SHKP Reading Club
Deadline for School Application and Submission of Works: 5 August 2022 (Fri)


Aims of Competition:

  1. Nurture students’ innovative thinking, develop their creativity, collaboration and problem-solving skills, focus on cultivating students’ thinking as an engineer
  2. Promote learning through competition, stimulate students’ learning motivation and interest
  3. Building on existing foundation, to strengthen in-depth cooperation with all walks of life and promote the development of science and technology innovation

Competition Category:
Primary group, Junior Secondary group and Senior Secondary group


For details of the event, please visit the website of the Hong Kong STEM Education Alliance

https://stem-alliance.org.hk/zh-tw/events


Details of Competition (Chinese version only)


Poster (Chinese version only)

STEM Student Lectures: “A Kaleidoscopic Glance into Engineering”

Date:
23 JUN 2022 -30 JUN 2022


Title:
STEM Student Lectures: “A Kaleidoscopic Glance into Engineering”


Venue:
On-line mode


Description:

STEM Student Lectures: “A Kaleidoscopic Glance into Engineering”, will be conducted on 23 & 30 June 2022 via real time online mode. It is organised by The Education Bureau (EDB), together with The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) and The Institution of Engineering and Technology Hong Kong (IET-HK).

In the lectures, engineers from different fields will give short talks on their authentic experience and the latest development in their specialised engineering fields, and host small group interactive dialogue sessions. The activity aims to give an overview of the engineering sector to students and its associations with learning of STEM-related subjects, and encourage students to proactively equip themselves with STEM-related knowledge through school subjects.


Deadline for application is 13 June 2022 (Monday). Schools interested in the activity please:

For more details, please refer to the following EDBCM.

EDBCM No. 72/2022 (Annex 7)

Gifted Education Fund: Off-school Advanced Learning Programmes

Gifted Education Fund: Off-school Advanced Learning Programmes

Gifted Education Section, Curriculum Development Institute, Education Bureau


A total of 14 off-school advanced learning programmes funded by the Gifted Education Fund are available for gifted students at primary and secondary levels in the current school year. These programmes relate to themes such as STEM education, humanities and social science, as well as corporate management. The deadline for application is 16 May 2022


Details of the programmes and means of application are available on the webpage below:
https://www.edb.gov.hk/en/curriculum-development/curriculum-area/gifted/ge_fund/gef/programme/current.html


A QR code is provided on the right for easy access to the webpage. Parents / guardians may download the application form from the webpage. Please submit the application form along with required documents to the programme provider by post before the application deadline.


Programme providers will inform applicants individually of the selection arrangements by emails and all applicants will be informed about their application results.


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STEM Education Learning, Teaching and Assessment Series: Intensive Training Programme on STEM Education for STEM Coordinators of Secondary Schools (Re-run)

Date:
26 MAY 2022 – 21 JUL 2022


Title:
STEM Education Learning, Teaching and Assessment Series: Intensive Training Programme on STEM Education for STEM Coordinators of Secondary Schools (Re-run)


Venue:
On-line mode


Description:

  1. To provide opportunities for the participants to develop/modify their own schools’ STEM learning and teaching activities
  2. To enhance learning, teaching and assessment strategies for paradigm shift in conducting STEM learning and teaching activities in schools
  3. To provide knowledge updates on the relevant scientific and technological advancements, as well as hands-on and minds-on experience for the participants to apply and integrate learning elements of Science Education, Technology Education and Mathematics Education
  4. To further promote cross-KLA collaboration among teachers of the relevant KLAs in planning, organising and implementing STEM-related learning activities
  5. To provide opportunities for sharing good practices on STEM education among schools

Event Details

STEM Education Learning, Teaching and Assessment Series: Intensive Training Programme on STEM Education for STEM Teachers of Secondary Schools (Re-run)

Date:
24 MAY 2022 – 12 JUL 2022


Title:
STEM Education Learning, Teaching and Assessment Series: Intensive Training Programme on STEM Education for STEM Teachers of Secondary Schools (Re-run)


Venue:
On-line mode


Description:

  1. To provide opportunities for the participants to develop/modify their own schools’ STEM learning and teaching activities
  2. To enhance learning, teaching and assessment strategies for paradigm shift in conducting STEM learning and teaching activities in schools
  3. To provide knowledge updates on the relevant scientific and technological advancements, as well as hands-on and minds-on experience for the participants to apply and integrate learning elements of Science Education, Technology Education and Mathematics Education
  4. To further promote cross-KLA collaboration among teachers of the relevant KLAs in planning, organising and implementing STEM-related learning activities
  5. To provide opportunities for sharing good practices on STEM education among schools

Event Details

Briefing Session on CoolThink@JC Network School Application (Cohort 6)

Date:
26 MAY 2022


Title:
Briefing Session on CoolThink@JC Network School Application (Cohort 6)


Venue:
On-line mode


Time:
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm


Description:
CoolThink@JC inspires digital creativity by empowering all students to move beyond mere technology consumption and into innovative use of technologies for social good. Since 2016, the Programme trained more than 600 teachers from 131 primary schools and benefited over 70,000 primary students. Per a third-party evaluation, CoolThink Students have grown twice as much in their problem-solving skills as non-participating students. The programme is going to recruit the last cohort of network schools — Cohort 6. The recruited schools will implement the CoolThink@JC curriculum starting from 2023-24.

The Briefing Session aims to introduce the support provided by CoolThink@JC, including Computational Thinking, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Programmable Robotics curriculum for P4-P6 students, professional development for teachers, co-teaching supports from teaching assistants and subsidy for purchasing digital devices. To know more about the programme, please visit its website https://www.coolthink.hk/

Briefing registration: Should school interest to nominate teachers to attend the Briefing Session, please enroll online at https://forms.gle/SQAmcmqK1jNKNhi59. Each principal can nominate 1-2 teachers to attend with.

Should school interest to be a CoolThink@JC Network School, please apply at https://forms.gle/7ZFDJxfEBdnXuACA7 . The deadline for application is 23 Jun 2022 (Thu). For enquiries, please contact Miss Hilda Cheung on 2948 8937 or email coding@eduhk.hk.


Event Details

STEM Education Enriching Knowledge Series: Workshop on Designing an Automatic Hand Sanitiser Dispenser (New)

Date:
11 MAY 2022


Title:
STEM Education Enriching Knowledge Series: Workshop on Designing an Automatic Hand Sanitiser Dispenser (New)


Venue:
On-line mode


Description:
The programme aims to:

  1. Facilitate participants to enhance students’ design and make skills through assembling an automatic hand sanitiser dispenser;
  2. Facilitate participants in implementing STEM education in schools ;

Event Details

STEM Education Enriching Knowledge Series: Workshop on Smart Coins Sorting Device Model Making (New)

Date:
4 MAY 2022


Title:
STEM Education Enriching Knowledge Series: Workshop on Smart Coins Sorting Device Model Making (New)


Venue:
On-line mode


Description:
The programme aims to:

  1. Enhance participants’ understanding of the application of Machine Learning technology and microcontroller to sort objects;
  2. Facilitate participants to promote STEM education in schools ;

Event Details

Webinar on Nurturing Young Designers and Engineers through Design and Technology Subjects (New)

Date:
21 APR 2022


Title:
Webinar on Nurturing Young Designers and Engineers through Design and Technology Subjects (New)


Venue:
On-line mode


Description:
The programme aims to:

  1. To enhance participants’ understanding of the rationale, aims and related support measures of the D&T curriculum;
  2. To introduce the development trends of design and engineering education in tertiary institutions and related career pathways ;

Event Details