2022-06-08

On 9 June 2022, an enrichment talk was organised by the CUHK titled The Roles of Science and Technology in Agriculture. Prof. Lam Hon-Ming gave a lecture through zoom to around 200 participating students from various schools, as part of the STEAM@Soybeans programme. Twenty of our students joined as part of their continuous STEAM@Soybeans investigation.

2021-10-28

The Chinese Mitten Crabs Aquaponics Project, with the support of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, organised the first term STEAM@Soybeans project. Twenty-three Form 4 students from all five classes joined the STEAM@Soybean Investigation programme.

On 28 October 2021, students diluted and added bacteria, Rhizobia, to the soil of the soybeans. The bacteria was given by CUHK, and it will help with the growth of the soybeans by converting nitrogen in the atmosphere to nutrients to further fertilise the soil.

Under our students’ care and hard work, the soybeans have sprouted. Our student helpers will monitor and record their growth situation as part of the investigation. Through the programme, our students learn the importance of responsibility and help build a green school environment.

2021-09-24

The teams of Chinese Mitten Crabs Aquaponics Project and STEAM@Soybeans organised the Soybean Cross Pollination Harvest Workshop on 24 September2021. Following up on the Soybean Cross Pollination Workshop on 6 July 2021, students who had cross pollinated soybeans from Laoshan in China and South Africa harvested the soybeans they had grown.

The successful cross-pollinated beans will be DNA profiled and mailed to South Africa by CUHK as part of Hong Kong's effort in supporting farming worldwide. The planting of soybeans has an international impact and supports the notion of sustainable education.

2021-07-19

On 19 July 2021, Natalie Kwok (3B) and Jobe Luk (3B) participated in the STEAM@Soybeans Creative Problem-solving Competition Prize Presentation Ceremony organised by the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Their team won the Championship in the competition. Congratulations!

Mr Calvin Nip, Operations & Project Director of Farmacy, was the guest of honour and presented the prize to them. Professor Lam Hon Ming, Chief Organiser of the STEAM@Soybeans project gave a holistic overview of the importance of soybeans to Hong Kong, China and the world. Our students also presented their winning project to other participating schools and teachers who are interested in joining the programme next year.

The competition aims at consolidating the soybean planting experiences of students, and re-evaluate the difficulties they faced, and gave an opportunity to the students to re-think how to use technology and engineering to solve problems. The competition encourages creativity, by asking participants to redesign or improve existing tools, to solve farming problems to develop smart farming in Hong Kong.

During the competition, students not only learnt about the intricacy of farming in Hong Kong, and the difficulties farmers faced. They also used their creativity in designing smart solutions to reduce farmers workload and adapt farming from outdoors to indoors.

2021-07-05

The teams of the Chinese Mitten Crabs Aquaponics Project and STEAM@Soybeans organised the Soybean Cross Pollination Workshop on 6 July 2021. Students had the opportunity to open up soybean flowers using fine tweezers, and transfer the pollen of Soybean flowers from one to another. The soybeans come from two places, namely Laoshan in China and South Africa.

If the cross-pollination is successful, the matured cross-pollinated beans will be DNA profiled and mailed to South Africa by CUHK as part of Hong Kong's effort in supporting farming worldwide. The planting of soybeans has an international impact and supports the notion of sustainable education.

2021-05-04

2021-04-30

Ten Form 3 and Form 4 students, forming three teams, participated in the STEAM@Soybeans Creative Problem-solving Competition organised by the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The competition aimed at consolidating the soybean planting experiences of students, re-evaluating the difficulties they faced during the project and applying the use of technology to solve the problems. The competition encouraged creativity by asking the participants to redesign or improve the existing tools to solve farming problems to develop smart farming in Hong Kong.

During the competition, students not only learnt about the intricacy of farming in Hong Kong, and the difficulties farmers faced. They also used their creativity in designing smart solutions to reduce farmers' workload and adapt farming from outdoors to indoors.

2021-04-20

2021-02-16

The fourth agrobiotechnology talk has been delivered by Prof Francisco Cisternas, Assistant Professor of Marketing, CUHK Business School on ‘Digital transformations effects on Agricultural Products and methods to assess market trends’ on 16 February 2021. Prof Cisternas, Assistant has introduced digital transformations effects on agricultural products as well as methods to assess market trends, and discussed the challenges and opportunities for producers in the market affected by technological advances.

2021-01-08

On 8 January 2021, ‘The Importance of Seed Quality in International Seed Trade’ was held at the CUHK and online via zoom with a total of 50 participants attended. In this talk, Dr Anthony Tse, Chairman of the Clover Seed Co., Ltd and Hong Kong Seed Trade Association Co., Ltd., introduced the international definition of high-quality seeds and discussed the importance of these seeds to international seed trade, economic value, agricultural productivity, and environmental impact.

It is the third of a series aiming to promote agrobiotechnology and enhance understanding of the potential applications of agricultural products. The target audience includes international scholars, researchers, agricultural industry as well as the general public.

2020-12-22

To continue the School’s Chinese Mitten Crabs Aquaponics Project and further enhance STEAM education, forty-two Form 3 to Form 5 students joined the STEAM@Soybean Investigation programme organised by the Chinese University of Hong Kong this year.

Under our students’ care and hard work, the soybeans have sprouted. Our student helpers will monitor and record their growth situation as part of the investigation. Through the programme, our students learn the importance of responsibility and help build a green school environment.

2020-12-04

Prof May Chu from the CUHK introduced how food risks are regulated globally and discussed the challenges to regulatory enforcement at the national and domestic levels. The talk was held online via zoom with 47 participants from Asia, Europe, North America and Africa, that includes international scholars, researchers, agricultural industry as well as the general public attended. They had an in-depth discussion on the topic.

2020-12-02

The student enrichment talk was organised through zoom. Center Director Prof. Hon-Ming Lam has delivered the mini lectures to close to 300 students from 18 participating schools on the theme “Importance of Soybean in Economy, Agriculture and Environment”.

2020-11-18

The Agrobiotechnology talk series is organized by Centre of Soybean Research, State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology to promote agrobiotechnology and enhance understanding of the potential applications of agricultural products.

The first series speaker was Dr Joanna Chen, the former Group Chief R&D and Quality Officer of Vitasoy International Holdings Limited. She introduced how crops are turned into flavourful meals, flavouring components and tasty/aromatic processed foods and drinks full of pleasing flavour surprises. This online talk held successfully by broken the time hurdle in different time zone around the world, and a total of 94 participants (84 via zoom) from Asia, Europe, Africa, South America and Australia joined this international meeting.

2020-10-28 to 2021-02-01

2020-09-19

The student enrichment talk was organised through zoom. Center Director Prof. Hon-Ming Lam has delivered a mini lecture to near 500 students from 18 participating schools on the theme “Food Security and Climate Change”. The interactive workshop has deepened the students’ understandings on the relationship between poverty, food security and climate change, while at the same time provided them new perspectives on how STEAM elements play their roles in face of the challenge.