‘Green Creation for the Future’ Carnival
You or your representatives are cordially invited to cover the ‘Green Creation for the Future’ Carnival to be held this Friday (28 June) at The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK).
‘Green Creation for the Future’ is a large-scale carnival, organised by the Department of Science and Environmental Studies at EdUHK, with the collaboration of over 40 primary schools and 11 organisations, and funding support from the Quality Education Fund. Originating from a two-year educational project focusing on promoting ‘Green Creative Thinking, Green Creative STEM, and Green Creativity Education’, the carnival is a pioneer large-scale project for the full integration of creativity, STEM and environmental education. About 1,500 primary school students, teachers, parents and other members of the public are expected to participate in the event.
The carnival focuses on three innovative themes: (1) ‘Wish-making for the Earth with green umbrellas’, which involves making DIY umbrellas from daily waste materials, inventing new uses for old umbrellas, and throwing a small parachute onto a wishing tree, during which everyone makes a wish for the Earth; (2) a ‘STEM-based Repair Café’, which features an umbrella doctor, toy doctor, watch doctor, shoe doctor and primary school repair team, providing on-site repair service and teaching, along with a display of a number of 3D printing repair works; and (3) ‘Robotic Green Creative FUN’, which introduces a variety of pro-environmental robots; for example, the famous Pepper robot and some humanoids will play several garbage picking and classifying, planting, and animal-rescue games with children. There is also a Micro:bit design competition, in which primary students will design and make Micro:bit inventions on the spot, and use them to tell wonderful stories about future cities, homes, theme parks, space exploration, and so on.
For more information, please visit: https://www.eduhk.hk/envir_creativity/
Details of the event
Venue: Tai Po Campus, EdUHK
| Activities | Venue | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Green Umbrella Upcycling Workshops | Laboratories, Block D3-D4 | 9:00 am - 4:30 pm |
| Group photo taking of Green Umbrella Sky | Central Plaza, C-P | 11:15 am -11:30am 4:30 pm - 4:45 pm |
| Wish-making for the Earth with parachute and wishing tree | Central Plaza, C-P | 9:00 am - 5:00 pm |
| Repair Café (STEM) (Umbrella, toy, watch, shoe and 3D printing) | C-LP | 9:00 am - 5:00 pm |
| Robotic Green Creative FUN | C-LP | 9:00 am - 5:00 pm |
| Micro:bit Design Competition (38 teams) | E-P-01 | 9:00 am - 12:00 nn 1:00 pm - 3:45 pm |
| Green Creative School-based (QEF) Project Result Report | D2-LP-05 | 4:00 pm - 4:20 pm |
Co-organisers
- Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology, EdUHK
- Centre for special Educational Needs and Inclusive Education, EdUHK
- Department of Cultural and Creative Arts, EdUHK
Support organisations
- Quality Education Fund
- Hong Kong Science Museum
- HKNGCA Science Innovation Centre
- Creative Teachers Association Limited
- Hong Kong Association for General Studies Education
- Friends of Green
- Greeners Action
- Green Sense
- Jockey Club Upcycling Centre
- Outdoor Wildlife Learning Hong Kong
- The Green Earth
Major Sponsors
- 4M
- 3D Mart
- Green Monday
- Oatly
- The D.H. Chen Foundation
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For media enquiries, please contact Miss Chan of Department of Science and Environmental Studies at EdUHK (Tel: 2948 8267 or email: cyinchi@eduhk.hk).