The "Hong Kong Top Ten Outstanding Tertiary Students Election 2022" held an awards ceremony today (18th) to commend 10 tertiary students who have made outstanding achievements in academic performance and social contribution.
One of the winners, Zhang Botao, a business administration student from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, founded an education technology start-up a year ago to develop personalized solutions for students of different abilities.
Zhang Botao pointed out that when he was a child, he was unable to keep up with the progress of other classmates.
Relevant experience made him hope to use education technology companies to solve the loopholes in "large class teaching" that fails to cater for students with different needs, and provide students with appropriate support.
When I was young, I couldn't keep up with the progress of reading
One of the winners, Zhang Botao, a third-year business administration student at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, founded an education technology start-up a year ago to provide individualized solutions for different students' strengths and weaknesses through artificial intelligence and big data.
Zhang Botao said that when he was a child, he was often unable to keep up with the progress of other classmates. He could only catch up with more efforts. He deeply realized the academic difficulties faced by weaker students, and gradually came up with ideas to help. different students.
His interest in innovation and innovation stemmed from the simulated company activities he participated in in middle school. Through exchanges with others, he discovered that he could innovate from a new perspective. He first introduced his ideas about educational technology startups to his middle school classmates. It is an attempt to gradually attract more college students or fresh graduates with the same idea to join the team, and it takes about a year from the idea to the establishment.
He expects that the company can break through the inherent model of education in the next five to ten years and realize the digitalization of society, so that students do not need to "dead shit" to make progress.
Establishing an education platform to share learning experiences under the epidemic
Also awarded the top ten outstanding tertiary students is Li Yingxin of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the founder of the online education platform.
She revealed that Hong Kong was in the midst of an epidemic two years ago, and many middle schools were closed.
When she went back to school to train the students of the debate team, she found that some teachers, brothers and sisters said that their studies could not keep up with the progress, and gradually came up with ideas to share different knowledge and skills with middle school students, so she set up an online education platform to share the learning experience and career of the HKDSE on IG Suggestions, revision techniques for different subjects.
Li Yingxin pointed out that she once received a message from a student who re-readed because the results of the HKDSE did not meet the standard, saying that because of the learning experience and skills provided by the platform, he finally improved by 3 points in the HKDSE and was successfully admitted to the university.
She continued that she will continue to expand the scale of the platform in the future, and plans to add new study advice for college students.
HKBU Visual Arts graduates promote art through illustration
Zhong Yingyao, who is studying in the Department of Visual Arts of Hong Kong Baptist University, was also awarded the Outstanding Student Award. She revealed that when she chose a subject, friends around her were worried that she would not be able to find a job in Hong Kong in the future after hearing that she had decided to study Visual Arts.
However, Zhong Yingyao pointed out that Hong Kong pays more attention to the development of art, such as the Palace Museum, the West Kowloon Cultural District, etc., all provide more opportunities for Hong Kong art graduates to develop their talents.
In addition to serving as a project assistant and visual art instructor at Baptist University, Zhong Yingyao said that she also operates an illustration platform, where she will introduce different art histories to the public in the form of illustrations, so that the public can know more interesting stories behind famous paintings.
In the future, we will continue to promote art, such as making short films with hand-painted illustrations to introduce the public with little knowledge of different famous paintings.
"Hong Kong's Top Ten Outstanding Tertiary Students Election" is organized by the Hong Kong Young Tertiary Students Association (Young Xue Xue Association), which aims to discover, commend and nurture tertiary students with potential, who care about the society and the future development of the motherland, so as to promote the overall development of tertiary students. development of people, and inspire more students to be willing to undertake and contribute to society.
Nearly 100 tertiary students from different institutions have signed up for this election. Participants must go through two rounds of interviews and open voting. The winners will receive a prize of 10,000 yuan.
The chairman of the judging committee is Tsang Yok-sing, and the jury members include Huang Yushan, the representative of the Hong Kong National People's Congress and the chairman of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council.
Tsang Yok-sing, Chairman of the Election Judging Committee and former President of the Legislative Council, said in his speech that he hoped that the award will enable the winning students to continue to move forward, care for the society, and take the initiative to provide opinions to the government, so as to build Hong Kong together.
The winners of the "Hong Kong Top Ten Outstanding Tertiary Students Election 2022" include Li Yingxin and Li Zhiyan from the Chinese University of Hong Kong; Yu Xingci and Ho Ho Yin of the University of Hong Kong; Niu Mingde, Xu Jiaxi and Zhang Botao of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; He Xinxia from Yew Chung School of Early Childhood Education.
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