3 July 2018 – STEAM@Soybean (1st Phase) Sharing Session

Our Center Director Prof. Hon-Ming Lam, in collaboration with the Big Education Platform, initiated an innovative STEAM Education project – STEAM@Soybean for Hong Kong secondary school students. The comprehensive project incorporates all-rounded learning activities for students to experience, observe, record, analyze, and create, with soybean as the focused research plant.

After four months of soybean propagation, teachers and students from 13 participating schools gathered in CUHK to share on their cultivation experience, interesting findings and difficulties encountered. Despite being a first-time farmer, all schools successfully propagated new soybean seeds. Prof. Lam and teachers were also impressed by the depth of observation and analyses done by the students as some of them have sharings on the impacts of different growing environment, length of daylight, and even diagnosed possible infections and pests.

To deepen students’ understanding to the challenges faced by China, as well as global agriculture, Prof. Lam also gave a mini-lecture on the theme “Water for Living”. The comprehensive mini-lecture prepared the students for the 2nd Phase of the STEAM@Soybean Project, by explaining on importance of fresh water, and summarizing on China’s water engineering projects.