One-off Opportunities

Dear all,

We are the Clean Air Student Council, a group of secondary school students in Hong Kong who aim to spread awareness on air pollution, whilst inspiring and educating other students in Hong Kong to do the same.

We are writing to you to inform you about our annual Hong Kong Environmental Writers' Competition. This event has been organized by the Clean Air Student Council in collaboration with Clean Air Network, Hong Kong.

This competition is open to all secondary school students in Hong Kong and we are delighted to have your school join us in this. We hope you can spread the message to the students in your school and get them involved.

WHAT IS IT?

The annual Hong Kong Environmental Writers’ Competition 2020 is designed for students to become more aware of the environment around them and have them research in-depth about matters relating to the environment that they find important. This also allows students to express their thoughts through writing and develop their skills in research.

The winners of the Hong Kong Environmental Writers’ Competition will be announced during the Hong Kong Air Pollution Conference scheduled for December 2020. It is advised to attend the Hong Kong Air Pollution Conference in order to redeem prizes.

Prizes are as follows:

- Senior (ages 14+): 3,000 HKD

- Junior (ages 12+): 2,000 HKD

- All participants will receive certificates as well

ABOUT THE SUBMISSION

The theme for this year will be Air Pollution: Policies and Progress. To participate in the competition, students must enter an original text-based work with a word limit of 1000, excluding the bibliography. The essays will be judged on the following criteria: research, creativity and communication. We suggest essays that are mainly research-based, and if possible, you could also consider collecting primary research.

Submissions can be in both English or Chinese.

The judging criteria are as follows:

Research (40%)

- How in-depth is your understanding of the topic of your work?

- How insightful is your research?

- You will receive extra credit if you use primary research.

Creativity (40%)

- How original is your topic?

- How have you looked at air pollution and its policies in a different way?

- If you took one of our suggested essay topics, how have you made your work original?

Communication (20%)

- How well are your ideas articulated?

- Are your sources cited properly?

- Is your work organized in a coherent and easy-to-read manner?

Deadline for Signups: 20th October

Please submit the form below to sign up and confirm your participation in the competition: https://forms.gle/A4FQG5Rymt33wGV38

Deadline for Essay Submission: 22nd November

Once you have completed your piece of writing, kindly email your work in PDF form to hkewc2019@hongkongcan.org

If you are struggling to find an essay topic, please refer to this spreadsheet for ideas.

Thank you so much for your interest and we hope you can spread the message to the students in your school. We hope to see your students' essays very soon!

Best regards,

Clean Air Student Council

CISxIdeas is a student group in CIS that aims to promote STEM and computer science around CIS and Hong Kong schools. They will be hosting a virtual international hackathon, which is a collaborative programming event, where students combine design thinking with coding to create a solution to a problem.

The theme of this year’s hackathon is environmental sustainability. It will be a fun opportunity for many secondary CIS students to develop their collaborative skills, and cultivate an interest in computer science and protecting the environment! For more details, please visit our website: cisxideas.com

This fulfils the creativity and service strands, as participants will be exercising creative thinking, and will serve the community by solving environmental sustainability-related issues.

Hey Year 11s and 12s,

As a lot of you guys may already know, Virtuosity is a non-profit fashion show that is run by CIS students annually. This year, it will take place in May 2021. The theme for this year’s show is sustainability. As the date draws nearer, the Virtuosity team is now looking to recruit students from Year 11 and Year 12 to help with the event!

Here are the role descriptions:

Photographers: Take photos during model castings, during rehearsals, and for the final show.

Videographers: Film the model castings, during rehearsals, and the final show, as well as edit short promotional videos.

Communications: Help to find sponsors and network with different organizations.

Logistics: Work with admin to handle the general running of Virtuosity, from overseeing the castings to organizing the runways. Communicating with designers and models.

Media: This is a graphic-design/visual arts oriented role. This includes creating posts for Instagram and designing posters.

Please fill in the google form if you are interested in any of these roles before 9 pm, October 10th! Let us know if you have any questions by replying to this email or contact any of us on the team.

If you are interested in modeling, designing, or performing for our show, please follow our IG @virtuosity_hk and check for updates on the application process!

P.S For year 12s, this counts as creativity for CAS! :))

Best,

the Virtuosity team,

Katia, Alicia, Casey, Illeana, Nyassa, Cloe, Karissa, and Vanessa

International Care Ministries is a non-profit organization that strives to bring about long-term change to the lives of ultra-poor people in the Philippines through holistic training and sustenance programs. For 28 years, ICM has been developing a network of pastors throughout the country to help us find the families and communities who are most in need. For more please check out our website: https://www.caremin.com/about-icm

To further our work and impact, we host an annual fundraising banquet and auction, which will be conducted virtually this year on Oct 9th. This event brings together many of Hong Kong's most influential professionals, and last year we raised over $1.5 million USD in one evening. We're looking for volunteers to help us in the following ways:

8 guest attendants

Guest attendants are present to assist guests with questions that they might have during the night. If your friends like to interact with people, that'll be great for it! They would need to be at Aberdeen Marina Club on Friday Oct 9th from 6:30-10PM. There will be a short training through Zoom prior to the date of the event.

4-5 Zoom Co-Hosts

A virtual role, so they can do it from wherever they are. They'll need to be available for a rehearsal on October 5th from 5PM onwards, and 7:30-10PM on October 9th. Their tasks are to:

1) Welcome guests as they dial into their Zoom meeting rooms.

2) Highlight important points made during the hour-long presentation and post them in Zoom meeting chatbox

3) Advise guests on zoom features (breakout rooms, speaker view, mute, etc); there's a bigger need for help on this last task, so whoever wants to be a tech co-host can sign up through this form: https://bit.ly/31YlNPQ

Additionally, they can also sign up as banquet simulation guests (if they're not zoom co-Hosts) to help us with the rehearsal on October 5th from 5PM onwards. Here's the sign up form: https://bit.ly/3hxWton. But this is not the priority, the guest attendants and Zoom co-Hosts are more important.

If interested, please contact Kaitlyn Wells at mingyi2000@gmail.com or 67995233 on Whatsapp. Thank you for the consideration!

Our names are Evan Wu and Tyler Fang, and we are the co-founders of HumanKind. Our goal is to promote English literacy and close the English language barrier gap to address the socioeconomic disparity in Hong Kong. We initiated the 'Everything English' book drive one month ago to help raise English books for under-resourced local secondary schools and are already halfway to our goal of 10,000 books. Spanning across over 80 collection locations, we welcome you to help take part in our book drive.

Dates: January 15th - March 15th

Types of Books: Any type of good quality English books

Collection Locations: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nh8w19MLLwJwHZ_dq223TzavkcXcAscNYqH4BtuJiYU/edit?usp=gmail

For More Information:

Instagram: humankind.asia

Corporate Gmail: humankind.asia@gmail.com

Tyler's Email: tylerdf2024@student.cis.edu.hk

Evan's Email: eyw604@student.cis.edu.hk

If any student would like to volunteer and do a little more than just donate books, please just contact us and let us know. We're always happy to get more students involved. Thank you!