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CFSS Students Taking Part in Soyvestor STEAM@Soybean Gansu Study Tour

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The Soyvestors STEAM Project aims to promote STEAM education in secondary schools through investigations of soybean cultivation. It not only builds on the expertise of university scientists, educators, and secondary teachers to teach the younger generations, but also integrates frontier soybean research with STEM technology and teaching models. On July 17 to 21, a group of S.3 and S.4 students from our school joined the Gansu study tour organized by The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Soyvestors Co. Limited and Big Education Platform. With Prof.…

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CFSS Student Getting Award in International Biology Olympiad – Hong Kong Contest 2022

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International Biology Olympiad – Hong Kong Contest was co-organized by the Education Bureau of the Government of HKSAR and the Hong Kong Academy for Gifted Education in Nov 2022. Our students S.6B Ko Ka Chun and Law Hau Yan attained Honourable Mentions in the competition. Our School Principal, Mr. Ho Tik Shun and Assistant Principal, Mr. Lam Chi Wai shared the joyful moment with the awardees at school. We hereby congratulate them, and wish them outstanding academic performance in the coming HKDSE.

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CFSS Obtaining Gold Award (Secondary Section) in The Education Bureau STEAM Education Fair 2022

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Our school accords high importance in STREAM Education. Branching from STEM, STEAM to STREAM, we include “R” (Reading and Writing) and “A” (Art and Design) to offer inter-disciplinary learning opportunities for our students. We advocate “All Start from Trees”. Surrounded by over 1000 species of plants in campus, such a vast plant biodiversity cultivates students-centered learning and project learning using plants as the natural resources. We have a Stevenson Screen with thermometers measuring the temperature and relative humidity inside to monitor the micro-climate in our…

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Kickstarting Whole-school Approach in STREAM Education – Visit and Seminar Delivered by Prof. Lam Hon Ming

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With an attempt to provide STREAM education to each and every student in CFSS, our school has been adopting whole-school approach in STREAM Education. Opportunity knocks and our school joined a highly unique STEM education project in this school year, known as “SoyVestor STEAM Project”. The project aims to introduce to students about soybeans from multiple perspectives, ranging from its history, nutrition value, technological innovations, trading to DNA sequencing and barcoding. As a STREAM kickstarting event, our school is more than honoured to have invited…

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STREAM Kickstarting Reading Programme Entitled “In the Search of Four-leaf Clover: The Life stories of 17 Rare Disease Patients”

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With “R” (Reading and Writing) being one of the integral components in the STREAM Education in CFSS, The STREAM Team, in connection with Language Departments, advocate extensive reading, writing, listening and speaking in wide spectrum of domains. Our school is more than pleased to have received over 1000 books entitled “In the Search of Four-leaf Clover: The Life stories of 17 Rare Disease Patients” donated from The Chinese University Hong Kong. It is also a golden opportunity for our school to kickstart a STREAM Reading…

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CFSS Students Were Awarded in Hong Kong Biology Literacy Award

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The Hong Kong Biology Literacy Award is organized by the Hong Kong Association for Science and Mathematics Education (HKASME), aiming to stimulate student’s active interest by expanding their exposure on scientific investigation. Students were challenged by a variety of scientific investigative questions in the competition. Four Secondary 5 students have participated in the competition and received awards. So Yuen Ying Vivian (5A) received Third Class Honour, Chan Ho Yan (5A) received Merit Award, and Pui Yat Hau (5A) and Wong Trinity (5A) received Active Participation…

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Amgen Biotech Experience (ABE) Programme

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The Chinese University of Hong Kong and The Amgen Foundation collaborate to introduce “Amgen Biotechnology Experience (ABE) Programme” into Hong Kong schools, so that teachers can bring biotechnology experiments to real practice in the lessons. This enables students to unveil the details of daily applications of biotechnology nowadays. It has been the sixth year of our school to join the ABE Programme. Biotechnology experiments were conducted in late May. All S.5 Biology students learnt how to successfully transform Red Fluorescent Protein (RFP) gene into Escherichia…

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CFSS Getting Fruitful Results in the 24th Hong Kong Youth Science & Technology Innovation Competition

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Following the outstanding performance in the previous years, our School succeeds to grab 18 prizes in the 24th Hong Kong Youth Science & Technology Invention Competition 21-22. We have altogether got 3 First Place Grand Awards, 3 Second Place Grand Awards, 3 Third Place Grand Award, 23 Merit Awards and 1 Special Awards in research, invention, fiction and organization. Above all, it has been the eleventh year of our School to receive an Outstanding Participating School Award. Please refer to appending table for details. 參賽者姓名作品名稱獎項Science…

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Online Workshop on “Aerospace Science and Space Seeds in CFSS”

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30 CFSS teachers and students participated in the Online Lecture on “Aerospace Science and Space Seeds in CFSS” organized by Green Guru on 21 February 2022 (Mon). In the online workshop, Guru Leaders introduced the space seed species in the school and their current conditions. Our students also observed and compared how the crops grown from space seeds are different from the normal crops. Green Guru unveiled the journey of space seeds with vivid and interesting stories – how the genes mutated after being exposed…

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