The MoCC Environmental Fair 2017 was held successfully in Cityplaza on 22 April. Being one of the participating schools of the Carbon Reduction Project, we are honoured to join ceremony. Three of our S.5 students (Choi Wing Sum, Tai Ho Ying Renee and Yoa Hon Fung) also represented the participated schools to share the results of the project in the ceremony.
Our Assistant Principal, Mr. Ho Tik Shun, and our Science Teacher, Mr. Chung Cheuk Hung Vincent, represented the School to attend the 7th Beijing International Forum on Education for Sustainable Development and the 4th Asia-Pacific Expert Meeting on ESD – the Unveiling Ceremony of DaAi Senior Maker Center for SD in DaAi of Hebei from 26 to 29 October 2016. In the conference, titled “ESD towards the Mainstream of World Education”, our school got the Exemplary School Award from the National Working Committee for UNESCO…
CFSS was honoured again in the prize presentation ceremony of the 2014-2016 Sustainable Development School Award Programme, held on 16 July 2016. The Programme was launched in June 2014, and themed on “Waste Reduction at Source” as a continuous education drive to follow up on the CSD’s recent public engagement process on “Municipal Solid Waste Charging”. Addressing the theme of the Programme, we engaged our neighbouring community under the theme of sustainability and hence obtained a “Sustainable Development Community Award”. We will continue to foster…
International Sustainable World (Energy, Engineering & Environment) Project Olympiad (I-SWEEEP) is a sustainable development science research project contest jointly organized by the Cosmos Foundation (CF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the United States. Targeting contestants from secondary schools, the contest, held every May in Houston, is renowned for resource technologies. I-SWEEEP is of the highest level and the largest of its kind around the globe. Three S.4 students (Nicole Fong, Bernard Chan and Felice Tang) were successfully qualified and belonged to…
“School of Distinction Award” was set up by Intel Corporation to reward renowned elementary and secondary schools in the United States on their outstanding performance in Science and Mathematics Education. Starting from the 25th China Adolescents Science & Technology Innovation Contest (CASTIC) in 2010, the organizing committee has been co-operating with Intel (China) Co., Ltd. to launch an annual contest by selecting the top 10 outstanding primary and secondary schools in Science Education from China (including Hong Kong and Macau), with award presentation in the…
Housing more than 1000 plant species, our School provides a good learning platform of the uses of medicinal plants and conservation on plant biodiversity for the public through mobile learning. In this workshop, participants can explore the details of herbs in a boundless setting in Environmental Trail and Medicinal Plant Garden on our rooftop. They can acquire basic concepts of plant properties and their uses together with simple species identification skills, to promote the use of plants for the health of the society.
Our Sustainable Development Ambassadors joined the visit organized by GAIA CUHK to the T. Park Environmental Education Centre in Tuen Mun this February. T. Park is a self-sustained unit. It is an incinerator, an on-site desalination plant and a leisure and educator centre. Through this visit, students acquired the exemplary practice of sustainability in Hong Kong.
The Science and Technology Education Enhancement Team and the Science Club co-organized a pilot program on plant specimen preparation in October and November this year. This workshop aimed at training students to identify and collect plant specimen on the campus. Under highly technological teaching pedagogies, students experienced biodiversity, appreciation of nature and environmental conservation in a practical manner. The programme included two sessions: (A) 16 October: Specimen Collection Field Trip Our Principal, Mr. Au, and a group of 30 students and teachers in total, collected…
Our school co-organized with Hong Kong Science Museum during HK SciFest 2017 – Fun Science Carnival on 18 and 19 Feb 2017. The theme of our stall is “Correct Planting, Mosquito No Way!”. Our school advocated suitable growth of plants to the public to combat against mosquito breeding and related infections of Dengue Fever and Zika in the stall. In addition to elucidating the causes of mosquito breeding, the public had been taught to download “Mosquito Alert” app to report mosquitoes and their breeding sites.…
The event is jointly organised by the Education Bureau and the Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation. It aims to showcase and celebrate a wide range of student achievements on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) related areas. Our school is one of the 80 participating primary and secondary schools, together with more than 10 tertiary institutes and organizations, displaying their exhibits to promote STEM education through workshops and seminars at the HK Science Park Convention Center 3. We have displayed VEX robots and…