13 Oct
2023
04/05/2021 Outreach STEM Activities: Application of Solar Energy for Powering Toy Educational Kits
Story: BSc students of Department of Physics, led by Dr MH CHAN, applied what they have learnt from lectures to retrofit battery-operated toys into solar-powered educational kits (Figs. 1-2). This outreach activity aims at teaching school students at primary level renewable energy and its applications (eg., with adoption of our self-developed solar-powered automatic bubble machines and fishing games). Six full sets of educational kits (Fig. 3, 30 separate educational components) were sent to Hong Chi Morninghope School Tuen Mun for their further teaching purpose.
On 04/05/2021, the direct number of beneficial students were 27 students (at P. 5 level distributed into 3 classrooms), and the potential number of indirect beneficial students were 200 students.
This outreach STEM activity is sponsored by the CISL (Centre for Innovative Service-Learning at HKBU). Figure 5 illustrates the group photo, where the CISL Director (Dr Lisa Lam), Principal of Hong Chi Morninghope School Tuen Mun (Mr Yuan Xuesen), and Dr MH CHAN (Project Leader) are in the group photo.
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| Fig 1. A BSc student was retrofitting a battery operated toy into solar energy powered toy. | Fig 2. Student achievement: BSc Students evaluated the solar-powered bubble machine. |
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| Fig 3. Solar-powered educational kits developed by HKBU Physics Students (Retrofitting battery operated toys into solar-powered toys). | Fig 4. STEM activity: teaching of renewable energy. |
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| Fig 5. Group photo after the STEM outreach activity. |
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