{"id":14333,"date":"2019-05-22T12:21:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T04:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=14333"},"modified":"2021-06-18T14:50:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T06:50:20","slug":"gear-up-for-stem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2019\/05\/gear-up-for-stem\/","title":{"rendered":"Gear up for STEM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/337670887?dnt=1&#038;app_id=122963\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Gear up for STEM\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Enriched IT Programme that will be extended to all schools<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reporters: Agnes Lam, Bonita Wong, Kayi Tsang<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editors: Edith Chung, Sam&nbsp;Kwong<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Applications of STEM (Science, Technology,\nEngineering, Mathematics) is in everyday lives. Establishment of Cyberport and\nthe Hong Kong Science and Technology Park has yet to turn the city into a regional\ntech hub. The government has stepped up effort to promote STEM education to\nbreed young talents. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Financial Secretary announced the Enriched IT\nProgramme in the 2014-15 Budget. The eight-year pilot programme is comprised of\nEnriched IT Class Programme and Enriched IT Activities Programme. Eight\nsecondary schools &#8211; Cheung Sha Wan Catholic Secondary School, Christian\nAlliance SW Chan Memorial College, Pak Kau College, Pui Ching Middle School, Shun\nTak Fraternal Association Yung Yau College, St. Paul\u2019s Convent School, The\nY.W.C.A. Hioe Tjo Yoeng College and <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tin Ka Ping Secondary School, were selected to run\nEnriched IT Class from 2015\/16 to 2022\/23 school year. It provides around HK$1 million\nyearly to each participating school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jordan Fung, a Form Five student of EITP, CEO of\nPedosa Group, believes STEM education is vital for the future generation. \u201cSTEM\neducation is about equipping every student with the skills to succeed in our\nsociety in the 21st century. It\u2019s about how we can use our creativity to turn\nour ideas turn our concepts into reality by taking actions to do so,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Godwin Wong is a Form Two student who designed and\ninvented BackUp, a device to measure and alert users when they have posture\nproblems. His design won the Hong Kong ICT Best Student Innovation Merit Award in\n2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students and teacher of The Y.W.C.A. Hioe Tjo Yoeng\nCollege agree that the EITP helps strengthen STEM education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pui Ching Middle School allocates funds to employ\nalumni to serve as tutors to help students prepare for competitions. Jonathan\nSo, the teacher-in-charge of the EITP programme and alumnus of the school, says\nhe encourages and inspires students by sharing his experiences of joining\ninternational competitions with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In light of the positive feedbacks of EITP, the\ngovernment proposed to set aside HK$500 million to implement the IT Innovation\nLab in Secondary Schools initiative in all publicly-funded secondary schools in\nthe coming three school years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leung Man-kit, panel chairman in computer of PCMS, hopes\nthe government can acknowledge and focus on training student\u2019s computational\nthinking instead of teaching topics that are trendy but will soon be obsolete.\n\nAnthony So Man-cho, professor at the Department of Systems Engineering\nand Engineering Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, says STEM\neducation should be implemented in a more systematic way. &nbsp;\u201cBasically the STEM education now the\nsecondary level shooting into different directions and most of them are related\nto technology\u2026I guess it calls for a more systematic approach to train up our\nfuture STEM talents. Systematic STEM education is essential for our city\u2019s\nfuture development,\u201d he says.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Varsity speaks to students and teachers to learn how the Enriched IT Programme helps cultivate young STEM talents. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1780],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hong-kong-life","category-multimedia-may-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14337,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14333\/revisions\/14337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}