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Mr Kevin Cheung, Year 4 student majoring in Business Administration and winner of The Professor Julie Hung Hsua Yu Scholarship for Intellectual Excel-leration in the academic year 2014–2015, shared his successful story with fellow students on 26 January 2016, to encourage them to apply for the scholarship and to excel in creativity.

Kevin challenged his audience on the definition of creativity with real-life examples. He introduced his winning proposal, which conceived of a voice gallery that captures people's emotions through paintings, and inspired students with creative works found in foreign countries. One of them features a set of 'piano stairs' in Stockholm, where the stairs were turned into a keyboard that produced the corresponding tones when stepped up on, thus encouraging the use of stairs over escalators. Kevin also shared his ideas on entrepreneurship and stirred up a discussion over the trending topic of online streaming.

The Prof Julie Yu Scholarship is funded by a generous donation contributed by former students of Prof Julie Yu to celebrate and promote the spirit of excellence, generosity and creativity shared by Dr CW Chu, the Chu Scholars, Prof Julie Yu and the donors — and which is also captured in the College Motto, Cultus et Beneficentia.

Workshop on Creativity

The College invited Prof Bernard Suen, Project Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship in CUHK and Director of Creativity Lab of Wu Yee Sun College, to introduce the concept of creativity to students in a workshop on 28 January 2016.

Participants were invited to reassess the meaning of creativity in an ever-changing world full of technologies. In terms of product design, students' attention was directed to the 'experience' of using a product, rather than the product itself, through an example of IDEO, an international design and consulting firm, redesigning the shopping cart for better shopping experience. An animated discussion followed, about how this concept can be applied to redesign the vending machine.

Result of The Professor Julie Hung Hsua Yu Scholarship for Intellectual Excel-leration (2015–16)

The Scholarship this year was open for application in January and closed in March 2016. Interviews were conducted by a panel comprising Prof Julie Yu, Ms Michelle Lo and Mrs Amelia Wong in April. After deliberation, it was unanimously agreed that the Prof Julie Yu Scholarship be awarded to the following team:

Members of the winning team

．Mr Ho Ching Hin (Team leader), Year 4 student majoring in Economics

．Miss Cheung Sin Yung, Year 4 student majoring in Chinese Language and Literature

．Miss Choi Nga Ting, Year 4 student majoring in Mathematics

Their proposal, 'Cantonese, Talk Talk Talk!', aims to promote and preserve Cantonese culture through creating postcards that feature Cantonese idioms, aided by Chinese and English definitions, attractive pictorial descriptions, and a QR code that links to a recording of the pronunciation of the corresponding idiom.