Celebration of Learning Achievements in Summer 2017

This is the third year for our school nominating students joining the Future Leaders Initiative Programme (FLIP), organized by group of professionals and university students. The programme has been supported by honorary advisors such as Professor Joseph Sung, the Vice Chancellor of  CUHK.

The Humanities & Liberal Studies Department nominated Oscar Au Yeung 5A, Ken Cheung 5A, and Jenny Law 5M to join the summer programme this year. The summer programme was with “Mental Health x Make Your Own App!” as its theme. It includes academic lectures, coding workshops, hospital visit, interactive seminars and public exhibition of participants’ final products.

We are delighted to share with you all that Oscar, Ken and Jenny showed illustrious performance at the programme, brining our school the honour to be one of the “Most Outstanding Schools”.

Apart from the Certificate of Participation for the completion of 43 hours of the programme, Oscar was awarded “Best Team Proposal”, and Jenny was awarded “Best Presentation Team”, “Award of Diligence” & “Best Mobile App Award”.

For students who are interested in the programme in 2017-18 summer, please approach your Humanities or Liberal Studies teachers. Thank you.

Ms. Fung Chak Wun Cheryl

 

The following are the reflections of the students :

Jenny Law Wan Sze (5M)
I am so grateful to have engaged in the very rewarding summer programme – Future Leaders Initiative Programme (FLIP). The theme this year is “Mental Health x Make Your Own App”. I must say the programme truly enriched our understanding in Psychology, especially Mental Health. Apart from subject knowledge, we benefited a lot from the application of concepts learned through practices, designing mobile app for patients with mental disorder and promoting the message of mental health to the public.
Unlike most educational programmes, FLIP does not only help student participants to explore ideas of the chosen topic, it guides us to come up with actual solutions and allow actual practices. This is truly inspiring.
As a secondary school student, I am grateful that we can make contribution to society in an innovative way. Putting words and things learned into action is challenging but not impossible. The programme also raised my awareness towards the necessity to take action and my proactive move in serving our community. Let’s start and make changes today!
Oscar Au Yeung Yat Ho (5A)
Last summer, I joined a very inspiring and educational leadership programme called FLIP. During the programme, I participated in various activities such as lectures on mental health and visits visit to Kwai Chung Hospital, which specializes in curing mental illness.
We also learned how to create our own mobile app at City University. Our final product was creating an important app that raise public’s awareness towards the need and care for mental health patients. In order to help them better fit in society while recovering or after recovery, the public should show higher acceptance, not label them as ‘crazy’, or deprive their rights.
I experienced and learned a lot from joining the FLIP programme. I really hope that our schoolmates can also benefit from the programme in the future. I am certain that they will not only find it enjoyable, but also reflect upon and benefit from it like how we did.