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Support MSF DAY!
MSF day is coming this year, Our ReachUp team is committed to lining up different groups of people and students to support MSF: an international, independent medical humanitarian organization across the word for the global mission of Equality, Inclusion, and Sustainability
MSF teams are on the ground every day, working in areas affected by conflicts, natural disasters or epidemics, striving to deliver medical aid to refugees, people surviving in disasters and to vulnerable groups. It may not be possible for you to be a fieldworker and work on the front line, but you can still give us a hand in providing essential medical health care to those suffering in distress. Join MSF day Now! Giving a day to MSF, together we can save more lives. Please kindly join the event and contribute your effects through the MSF website.
Join hands together: Apply STEM for UN’s SDG mission “Carbon Neutrality” as a Change Agent!
Globally, we are deeply aware of the climate emergency, and has set a series of intermediate targets to meet to make sure we make good progress on “Carbon neutrality”
We have already pledged to achieve carbon neutrality by 2038. As carbon dioxide has a lifespan of about a century in the atmosphere, we have to reach carbon neutrality well before 2050 to guarantee that our planet remains below the critical 1.5oC.
What you can do to contribute for the change?
Grounded on the themes of United Nation’s IPCC The Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), ReachUp for STEM committee has set up the eight-week summer program (online and offline) that targets for secondary school and university students with an interest in environmental sustainability, including climate change, new energy, social inclusion.
Programme Features
Vision: Unitize digital STEM education as an educational planform to nurture and influence change-agents for positive sustainable education
Mission: Position campus as a living lab for sustainable innovation, practice, and learning, integrating art into its science communication.
Value: Emphasize Co-Design and joint collaborations to enable today’s youth to play an active and meaningful role in tackling climate change challenges through hands-on team-based innovation.
The whole program applies flexible mode and multiple-modules, please fill in the application form for registration of our information session on 26 June 12 am (HKT)
Zoom Link: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/7525511925
For enquiries：reachup_education@outlook.com
Organizer: ReachUp STEM Education Association
Partner organizers:
The NeoUnion ESC Organization
China YIC Youth Innovation Alliance
Hong Kong Science and Technology Youth Federation
Computational Thinking Workshop
In education setting, computational thinking (CT) is a set of problem-solving methods that involve expressing problems and their solutions in ways that a computer could also execute. It involves automation of processes, but also using computing to explore, analyse, and understand processes.
Cultivating Computational Thinking for STEM education development is essential, especially for female students:
After joining this workshop, you could be able to:
Describe the skills that are involved in computational thinking
Define and use the concepts of abstraction as modelling and abstraction as encapsulation
Understand the distinctive nature of computational thinking, when compared with engineering and mathematical thinking
Be aware of a range of applications of computational thinking in different disciplines.
Please feel free to join us to acquire the computational mindset and hands-on toolkit!
Date: 18 Jun 2022
Time (HKT)：1PM
Venue (Zoom): https://hkust.zoom.us/j/7525511925
Call for STEM Summer Camp Mentor and Mentees (1st round)
Dear ReachUp STEM Camp participants,
We would like to invite you to the New Member Session for summer cohort STEM. This year, more than 100 new members has expressed their interest in joining the 2022 summer camp, so we hope the continuous members will join this event as mentors.
This event offers mentee to know more about the STEM schemes and mentors two roles as facilitators in the small group talk and an advisor in the poster presentation on STEM or STEM relevant interdisciplinary areas.
Please cooperate with this friendly welcome event for new members.
The event information session will be organized at 2 June 1 PM (HKT), please feel free to join us!
Venue (Zoom): https://hkust.zoom.us/j/7525511925
Organizer: ReachUp STEM Summer Camp 2022
Monthly Woman Roles Workshop 2022 – Artificial Intelligence Literacy: A Gender and Intersectional Workshop
AI literacy allows us to make well-considered computational decisions that shape our logical thinking, technical security, personal and community well-being, and the ability to live our lives according to our values. AI fundamental knowledge would help us make rational decisions that support our learning independence and achievement of study and work goals, especially for woman.
This workshop seeks to facilitate discussion among students, academics, and NGOs on the basic approaches to AI literacy education for different disadvantaged groups in the city. Join us and know more about the need for AI literacy and how it can be better shared in our communities!
Date: 17 May 2022
Time: 13:00 (HKT)
Venue (Zoom): https://hkust.zoom.us/j/7525511925
Language: English and Chinese (Simultaneous interpretation will be provided.)
𝐓𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐰𝐞 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝑺𝑻𝑬𝑴
Celebrate the precious bond with your Mother!
Mother has always been by your side, providing her unconditional love, strength and protection. She deserves the best!
Join our virtual workshop for creating DIY Mother’s Day Card and listening to working mother’s sharing as a STEM Teacher/Researcher!
𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: 8 May, 2022 9PM(HKT)
𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞 (𝐙𝐨𝐨𝐦): https://hkust.zoom.us/j/7525511925
2022 ReachUp STEM Ambassador Program Recruitment is now Open!
Are you conducting 𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗠 outreach events for female students or woman educators in your local community or in the global level ? Would you like to help inspire other volunteers to get involved in STEM outreach? Then, we want to join hands with us!
Events
VIP talks
Distinguished Lecture Series
Distinguished Lecture Series 1
In Conversation: Jockey Club Caring Communities for Dementia 「友里蹤跡」Campaign
Speaker: Prof. Gary CHAN
School of Engineering, HKUST
Awardee of 2020 Hong Kong Chief Executive’s
Commendation for Community Service
Distinguished Lecture Series 1
In Conversation: How to keep resilience in times of Uncertainties
Speaker: Prof. Yang WANG
Vice-President for Institutional Advancement
Mentor’s talks
University Mentoring Platform for Mental Health Wellbeing & Sustainable Personal development workshop series
Session 1: How to Reduce Stress
Speaker: Mr. Bill Yip
HKUST hall manager, Registered social worker, Licensed personal development trainer
Session 2: How to balance life
Speaker: Mr. Pong Chan
Professional Medication Trainer
Session 3: How to win academic success
Speaker: He Hu
HKUST student
Session 4: When breathe can be made visible
Speaker: Ms Sienna Shinong Ji
Improvisational theatre performer, Part-time counsellor and dance therapist
Session 5: Give you an edge for future career
Speaker: Mr. He Hu
HKUST student
Session 6: How to overcome anxiety for self–compassion
Speaker: Mr. Pong Chan Professional meditation trainer
Mentee’s voices
”Within and beyond academic world, mentorship happening around us in informal ways all the time and with different people in our Learning opportunities and professional networks.“
”Reach-Up changed the traditional “one size fits all” approach to mentorship ,which provides us quite a lot of interesting and sustainable way for self development”
“I like this innovative platform as it is flexible and never ask students any personal information and ensures privacy during the mentoring process”
Distinguished lectures and knowledge sharing
Coming soon…