Author: Ngan Vesta

Date:
23 JUL 2020 – 27 JUL 2020
 
Title:
STEM Education Enriching Knowledge Series: Workshop on Building Solar Car Model Using Common Hand Tools and Materials (New)
 
Venue:
Maker Space, Rm 109, 1/F, Arts & Technology Education Centre, 145 Junction Road, Lok Fu, Kowloon
 
Description:
Objective:
● To enhance participants’ pedagogical knowledge of using common hand tools and materials to develop students’ design and make skills
● To facilitate participants to promote STEM education in schools through building solar car model
 
Event Details

Date:
18 JUL 2020
 
Title:
STEM Education Enriching Knowledge Series: Seminar on Urban Micro-climate • Green Architecture (Re-run)
 
Venue:
Maker Space, Rm 109, 1/F, Arts & Technology Education Centre, 145 Junction Road, Lok Fu, Kowloon
 
Description:
Objective:
● To enhance participants’ understanding of the dynamics between built environment and microclimate
● To facilitate participants to promote STEM education in schools through teaching green architecture and design
 
Event Details

Date:
23 JUN 2020 – 24 JUN 2020
 
Title:
STEM Education and e-Learning Lesson Plan Award Scheme: Award-winning Lesson Plan Sharing Sessions
 
Description:
To conclude the STEM Education and e-Learning Lesson Plan Award Scheme, celebrate the accomplishments of all the teachers and encourage them to continue to share their experience and resources, The Women’s Foundation has invited the winners in each category to share their lesson plans at a series of sharing sessions.
 
Come and find out more about how they implement the award winning lesson plans in their classrooms and exchange strategies and ideas with other teachers. Join us to continue to develop your skills and knowledge in STEM education and e-learning.
 
If you’d like to find out more or join a session, please find more here.
 
Event Details

Date:
19 JUN 2020 – 6 JUL 2020
 
Title:
STEM Education Enriching Knowledge Series: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Mathematics (New)
 
Venue:
Function Room AC1, 4/F, Hong Kong Cultural Centre Administration Building, 10 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
Function Room W422_423 4/F, West Block, Education Bureau Kowloon Tong Education Services Centre, 19 Suffolk Road, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon
 
Description:
Objective:
To broaden the participants’ scope of knowledge in the relationship among artificial intelligence, big data and mathematics.
 
Event Details

Date:
26 JUN 2020
 
Title:
STEM Education Enriching Knowledge Series: Mathematical and Statistical Modelling in Public Health Using Genetic Data (New)
 
Venue:
Hong Kong Space Museum Lecture Hall
 
Description:
Objective:
Genetic data have provided new directions to understand the diseases for better public health protection. However, the complexity of genetic data poses challenges for appropriate and thorough analysis. In the seminar, the speaker will introduce some usages of mathematical and statistical modelling on the genetic data for understanding disease mechanisms, particularly focus on the infectious disease investigation. Application to the study of COVID-19 outbreak will be covered.
 
Event Details

Date:
24 JUN 2020 – 8 JUL 2020
 
Title:
STEM Education Enriching Knowledge Series: Workshop on Building Air Quality Monitoring Device (New)
 
Venue:
Maker Space, Room 109, Arts & Technology Education Centre,145 Junction Road, Lok Fu, Kowloon
 
Description:
Objective:
●To enhance participants’ pedagogical knowledge of building air quality monitoring device to develop students’ design and make skills
●To facilitate participants to promote STEM education in schools
 
Event Details

Date:
6 Jan 2020
 
Title:
STEM Education and e-Learning Lesson Plan Award Scheme 2019
 
[Updated on 5 May 2020]
 
Description:
The “STEM Education and e-Learning Lesson Plan Award Scheme 2019” is organised by The Women’s Foundation and supported by the Education Bureau. It aims to further encourage teachers to share their experience and resources. Teachers can share lesson plans they have created with other teachers, support each other with strategies and ideas, while developing ways to improve STEM education and e-learning.
 
The winners of the Award Scheme have been selected by the Assessment Panel and announced on the Award Scheme website. Please visit the Girls Go Tech Programme website (www.ggthk.org) and click on Award Results to see all the award-winning lesson plans and testimonials from teachers.
 
Every teacher in Hong Kong is welcome to download all lesson plans that were submitted as part of this Award Scheme. They are available in the Teacher Corner of the Girls Go Tech Programme online platform, along with other resources.

Date:
9 Mar 2020 – 31 Dec 2020
 
Title:
The Women’s Foundation’s Girls Go Tech Programme 2020
 
Description:
The Women’s Foundation’s Girls Go Tech Programme aims to encourage female secondary school students from underprivileged backgrounds to pursue traditionally male-dominated STEM-related subjects to maximise their future career options. Through the Programme, students develop skills including self-confidence, problem-solving, creativity and collaboration, to help achieve their future academic and career goals.
 
To enable more female students to benefit and to share more resources, the Girls Go Tech Programme 2020 is now open to secondary schools that serve a proportion of students from deprived backgrounds. The Programme is free to join, aiming to reach female students from Secondary 3 to 6. There is no maximum number of participants per school.
 
For schools who are interested in joining the Programme, please find more information here.

Date:
23 Apr 2020 – 18 May 2020
 
Title:
PolyU & You: Online Lecture Series
 
Description:
The professional academic staff of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University will conduct an online lecture series from 23 April to 18 May 2020, via the Microsoft Teams Live Events platform, between 4:00 pm and 4:35 pm in real time.
 
Objective:
To enrich students’ knowledge on business, language, design and STEM through an online lecture series
 
Topics:
Be a Fashionable Pop-word User! (23 April 2020, Thursday)
Physics 101 for Physiotherapist (27 April 2020, Monday)
Why do Housing Prices Go Sky-high? (5 May 2020, Tuesday)
Olympics and Sports Clothing Innovation (6 May 2020, Wednesday)
A Crash Course into Coffee Basics (7 May 2020, Thursday)
Fundamentals of Modern Marketing (12 May 2020, Tuesday)
Can a Product to be Designed to Heal Relationship? (13 May 2020, Wednesday)
Jet Engines for Commercial Aircraft (14 May 2020, Thursday)
The Magic of Light (18 May 2020, Monday)
 
Event Details

Title:
Health Management and Social Care Field Learning Expo 2020 (Postponed)
 
Objective:
To showcase students’ achievement in HMSC field learning as well as to introduce different innovative solutions and experiential learning activities in health and social care areas
 
Important Note
Due to class suspension of all schools, the Health Management and Social Care Field Learning Expo 2020 originally scheduled from 7 to 23 April 2020 has been postponed to January or February 2021.
 
We will invite schools to participate in the event again in October 2020 (tentatively) through EDB circular memorandum. All the planned learning activities will still be offered. Schools that have already submitted nominations / applications could keep their nominations / applications or they may consider submitting new applications / nominations in October 2020.
 
For more details, please refer to:
https://www.edb.gov.hk/en/curriculum-development/kla/technology-edu/resources/hmsc/fieldlearningexpo.html