宝安区学生参加宝博会秀创意手工 SAIS hosts 3rd Nanshan Maker … · using...
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Campus 06 Shenzhen Daily Wednesday December 13, 2017 Email: [email protected] 宝安区学生参加宝博会秀创意手工 深美国际学校举办第三届南山创客节 Tan Yiwen, a student from Keyuan School in Longgang District, has come out on top at the junior high school group of the fourth national App Inventor competition held at Google’s Beijing headquarters on November 26. After two rounds of auditions, Tan was one of the 23 teams that had made it to the finals. The jury con- sisted of professors from renowned universities such as Tsinghua Uni- versity, Zhejiang University, Capi- tal Normal University as well as experts from Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology and Google. Tan’s app, “Snake and Beehive,” won the first prize in the junior high school group. Unlike the well- known mobile phone game “Snake,” the background of his design is a hexagonal beehive, through which the snake moves along in six direc- tions. There are also some novel elements such as “royal jelly” that endues the snake with superpow- ers, a portal that enables the snake to travel through time and space, as well as beeswax that can eliminate obstacles.“In order to perfect the game, he made eight versions alto- gether. The production phase lasted five months, and he was still revis- ing the code before the design was submitted,” said Tan’s tutor. “A design with a unique concept, handy use and highly technical content” — this is the unanimous appraisal of the judges to Tan’s “Snake and Beehive.” Starting from 2014, the App Inventor competition has drawn extensive attention from the soci- ety as maker education is on the upsurge. This year, it received more than 1,300 entries from more than 200 primary and junior high schools across the country. (Zhang Yu) China’s nine years of compulsory edu- cation will not be extended to 12 years, the Department of Basic Education of China’s Ministry of Education (MOE) said in a statement. The statement was released after recent rumors went viral online, indicating the extension of compulsory education as well as the cancellation of the country’s high school entrance exam. “We are yet to have the conditions to include senior high school in compul- sory education,” the department said, adding that the main task in terms of senior high school education is for it to meet the needs of more junior high school graduates. According to the statement, despite the goal for senior high school educa- tion to be implemented nationwide by 2020, which was included in a plan issued earlier this year, it does not mean senior high school education will be compulsory and free. “Promoting high school education is more about making sure students can attend senior high schools,” the state- ment read. “Our compulsory education is still imbalanced and insufficient,” the state- ment continued, suggesting that there are many important tasks to undertake to improve compulsory education in years to come. The department also dismissed rumors that the senior high school entrance exam would be canceled. “We want to cut the number of exams to reduce the pressure on our students,” the statement said. (Xinhua) The third Nanshan Maker Faire was held on December 2nd at Shenzhen American International School (SAIS), hosting a record-breaking 68 exhibitors and hundreds of interested visitors from the local community. More than 60 percent of the exhibits were hands-on, allowing members of the public to make some tech themselves. As the host of the event, SAIS ran several stands, including a popular arcade game section by Grade 2 students that was much enjoyed by young and old visitors alike, a presentation explaining how animals protect themselves and how humans have learned from them, a healthy living demo with an exercise video created by kindergarten students, a color creation booth demonstrated by 3 and 4-year-old students, furniture making and much more. QSI school’s engineering club brought in an electric vehicle they designed and built which visitors were invited to test drive. Another QSI invention, an intriguing “truth mirror,” enabled people to see themselves as what they really are. ISNS brought a Virtual Real- ity (VR) system and Steamhead, showing it’s possible to create a VR system using a mobile phone and cardboard at the cost of just a few pennies. The public school sector was strongly represented, contrib- uting 26 stands and exhibiting some works by incredibly talented designers and artists. Yucai No. 4 Primary School presented an automatic plant-watering device. Foshan Luoge School exhibited WiFi speakers and taught the public how to solder. SCIE brought drones that measure air quality. Other schools exhibited works of art, calligraphy and many more hands-on activities and inventions, illustrating the depths of creativity and design possessed by young people. Carrie Leung, head of the SAIS Makerspace and a lead organizer of the Nanshan Maker Faire, com- mented: “The rapid growth of the Nanashan Maker Faire shows that schools in Shenzhen are taking the challenge of making education more relevant to the real world seriously. More and more schools are using maker-embedded learning to address some of the issues of outdated methods of learning and making education more relevant for our children. With 54 schools and 14 organizations participating, the event was an exciting opportunity for the students to showcase their works.” (Chen Xiaochun) SAIS hosts 3rd Nanshan Maker Faire Teenager wows Google judges with original App China’s compulsory education not to be extended to 12 years 龙岗少年独创“贪吃蛇”APP 征服谷歌评委 中国仍将执行9年义务教育 Scientific show Children perform at Shenzhen Children’s Palace on the fourth Shenzhen Youth Science and Art Festival on Saturday. Sun Yuchen A student (R) of Yucai No. 3 Primary School writes Chinese calligraphy. Courtesy of SAIS Tan Yiwen (C) receives the award. SD-Agencies
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Campus 06 Shenzhen Daily Wednesday December 13, 2017Email: [email protected]
宝安区学生参加宝博会秀创意手工深美国际学校举办第三届南山创客节
Tan Yiwen, a student from Keyuan School in Longgang District, has come out on top at the junior high school group of the fourth national App Inventor competition held at Google’s Beijing headquarters on November 26.
After two rounds of auditions, Tan was one of the 23 teams that had made it to the fi nals. The jury con-sisted of professors from renowned universities such as Tsinghua Uni-versity, Zhejiang University, Capi-tal Normal University as well as experts from Massachusetts Insti-tute of Technology and Google.
Tan’s app, “Snake and Beehive,” won the fi rst prize in the junior high school group. Unlike the well-known mobile phone game “Snake,”
the background of his design is a hexagonal beehive, through which the snake moves along in six direc-tions. There are also some novel elements such as “royal jelly” that endues the snake with superpow-ers, a portal that enables the snake to travel through time and space, as well as beeswax that can eliminate
obstacles.“In order to perfect the game, he made eight versions alto-gether. The production phase lasted fi ve months, and he was still revis-ing the code before the design was submitted,” said Tan’s tutor.
“A design with a unique concept, handy use and highly technical content” — this is the unanimous appraisal of the judges to Tan’s “Snake and Beehive.”
Starting from 2014, the App Inventor competition has drawn extensive attention from the soci-ety as maker education is on the upsurge. This year, it received more than 1,300 entries from more than 200 primary and junior high schools across the country. (Zhang Yu)
China’s nine years of compulsory edu-cation will not be extended to 12 years, the Department of Basic Education of China’s Ministry of Education (MOE) said in a statement. The statement was released after recent rumors went viral online, indicating the extension of compulsory education as well as the cancellation of the country’s high school entrance exam.
“We are yet to have the conditions to include senior high school in compul-sory education,” the department said, adding that the main task in terms of senior high school education is for it to meet the needs of more junior high school graduates.
According to the statement, despite the goal for senior high school educa-tion to be implemented nationwide by 2020, which was included in a plan issued earlier this year, it does not mean senior high school education will be compulsory and free.
“Promoting high school education is more about making sure students can attend senior high schools,” the state-ment read.
“Our compulsory education is still imbalanced and insuffi cient,” the state-ment continued, suggesting that there are many important tasks to undertake to improve compulsory education in years to come.
The department also dismissed rumors that the senior high school entrance exam would be canceled.
“We want to cut the number of exams to reduce the pressure on our students,” the statement said. (Xinhua)
The third Nanshan Maker Faire was held on December 2nd at Shenzhen American International School (SAIS), hosting a record-breaking 68 exhibitors and hundreds of interested visitors from the local community. More than 60 percent of the exhibits were hands-on, allowing members of the public to make some tech themselves.
As the host of the event, SAIS ran several stands, including a popular arcade game section by Grade 2 students that was much enjoyed by young and old visitors alike, a presentation explaining how animals protect themselves and how humans have learned from them, a healthy living demo with an exercise video created by kindergarten students, a color creation booth demonstrated by 3 and 4-year-old students, furniture making and much more.
QSI school’s engineering club brought in an electric vehicle they designed and built which visitors were invited to test drive. Another QSI invention, an intriguing “truth mirror,” enabled people to see themselves as what they really are. ISNS brought a Virtual Real-ity (VR) system and Steamhead, showing it’s possible to create a VR system using a mobile phone
and cardboard at the cost of just a few pennies.
The public school sector was strongly represented, contrib-uting 26 stands and exhibiting some works by incredibly talented designers and artists. Yucai No. 4 Primary School presented an automatic plant-watering device. Foshan Luoge School exhibited WiFi speakers and taught the public how to solder. SCIE brought drones that measure air quality. Other schools exhibited works of art, calligraphy and many more hands-on activities and inventions, illustrating the depths of creativity and design possessed by young people.
Carrie Leung, head of the SAIS
Makerspace and a lead organizer of the Nanshan Maker Faire, com-mented: “The rapid growth of the Nanashan Maker Faire shows that schools in Shenzhen are taking the challenge of making education more relevant to the real world seriously.
More and more schools are using maker-embedded learning to address some of the issues of outdated methods of learning and making education more relevant for our children. With 54 schools and 14 organizations participating, the event was an exciting opportunity for the students to showcase their works.”
(Chen Xiaochun)
SAIS hosts 3rd Nanshan Maker Faire
Teenager wows Google judges with original App
China’s compulsory education not to be extended to 12 years
龙岗少年独创“贪吃蛇”APP 征服谷歌评委
中国仍将执行9年义务教育
Scientifi c showChildren perform at Shenzhen Children’s Palace on the fourth Shenzhen Youth Science and Art Festival on Saturday. Sun Yuchen
A student (R) of Yucai No. 3 Primary School writes Chinese calligraphy. Courtesy of SAIS
Tan Yiwen (C) receives the award. SD-Agencies
