Science Inspiration Project for
Secondary School Students
During the academic year of 2013/14, the Faculty of
Science sent more than ten students to a number of local
secondary schools and a school in Macau to organise science
workshops. The project targeted schools with more low-
income families. CUHK volunteers utilised examples related
to everyday science to design a range of games, workshops
and experiments, igniting in secondary students an interest in
science and encouraging them to study science in university
and take on a science-related career.
CLOVER
CLOVER is an annual service programme organised by the
Office of Student Affairs. In the academic year of 2013/14,
216 CUHK students took part in the programme. They were
divided into 20 teams, each consisting of local and non-local
students. Each team had to design a service project for a
specific community. The entire project spanned over 3,000
service hours, during which students organised a variety of
activities for the physically challenged, South Asian children
and newly arrived women, such as handicraft workshops,
language courses and outdoor activities.
Artbility – The Art of CUHK 2014
From March to June 2014, nearly 40 students from the
Department of Fine Arts planned a series of events on
‘Integration of Arts into Society’. They organised 11
educational guided tours, leading over 300 high school
students who were interested in arts to look at works by
the department’s students. They also hosted workshops
teaching secondary school students about Xu Bing’s
calligraphy, papermaking and meticulous fan painting, to
which participants responded with enthusiasm. In addition,
to enable the visually impaired to enjoy the art works as
well, volunteers created recordings and purchased different
accessories such as headphones so they could experience
the works using their senses of touch, hearing and smell.
MOTIVIC
(Music of Travel in Visually Impared Community)
Over the past three years, MOTIVIC has combined
ethnomusicology, music psychology and social services to
organise an array of events for the visually impaired. The first
part of the project introduced musical cultures of different
places, using excerpts of music and field recordings in a
range of world music-themed workshops. In addition to
music appreciation, every workshop also introduced different
places’ musical histories as well as their social and cultural
backgrounds. Food, clothing and musical instruments from
around the world were also on hand to offer participants a
multisensory experience. The second part of the project was
the Music Radio Channel. Volunteers created pre-recorded
and edited radio programmes in the studio at the Hong
Kong Society for the Blind (HKSB), which were then issued by
HKSB’s library, where those with visual disadvantages could
borrow and listen to the programmes.
Transform Society ·
Walk the Talk–
Social Service
Projects
Seeing
those who are
less fortunate than
ourselves – whether
they are elderly women selling
cardboard for a living or left-behind
children living in remote, mountainous
areas – we more often than not would stop
and catch ourselves asking: what can I do?
If you’re willing to not only talk the talk
but also walk the walk, regardless
of the scale of the service you want to
initiate, the I
·
CARE Social Service Projects
programme offers project consultation, network
contacts and funding assistance, helping you to
turn your ideas into reality. Even if you aren’t sure
how you can help your service target, you’re still
welcome to join our service development activities.
Together, let us rethink the value of service, and
not do it just for the sake of doing it. Through
organising social service, students can broaden
their horizons, serve the communities in
need and understand society, while
also understanding themselves and
growing to be a more mature, humbler
and courageous self.
In the past four years, we’ve supported
more than 50 projects. We hope
the project introduction
below will inspire you
to become the next
project organiser.
LOCAL
PROJECTS
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Social Services Project
