HFPJC Students participated in TEDx HKPolyU
On February 16th 2019, a group of Henry Fok Pearl Jubilee College students and staff participated in the study trip in Hong Kong. They visit the Museum and attended the TEDxHKPolyU event at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
The trip started with a visit at the Hong Kong Science Museum to explore their latest Landscape Map of the Silk Road Exhibition, the Landscape Map of the Silk Road is a traditional Chinese map drawn on a silk handscroll, with dimensions of about 30-metre long and 0.6-metre wide. The map depicted the Silk Road from Jiayu Pass in Gansu province to Tianfang-guo (present-day Mecca in Saudi Arabia) in the Ming dynasty. It was taken overseas in the 1930s and has now returned home.
HFPJCers then enjoyed a well-organized collegiate TEDx event with eight innovative speaker talks on environmental protection, entrepreneurship, Block chain, collegiate residential living-learning and many more. TED means a group of speckers from Technology, Entertainment and Design, in the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.
The event wrapped up with a networking session at the end that provides exchange opportunities with organizers and speakers. The trip provides the students and staff an exposure to an international event with multidisciplinary speakers and ideas, as well as a great bonding opportunities among RC members. |