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The College held a sharing session on the Prof Julie Yu Scholarship and a workshop on Creativity on 25 January 2017.

Sharing on the Prof Julie Yu Scholarship

A member of the winning team of The Professor Julie Hung Hsua Yu Scholarship for Intellectual Excel-leration in the academic year 2015–2016, Mr HO Ching Hin Marco, a graduate of Class 2016 majoring in Economics, shared the concept of his team's creative endeavour with fellow students on 25 January 2017, to encourage them to apply for the scholarship and to excel in creativity.

Mr HO challenged his audience on the definition of creativity with real-life examples. He introduced his team's winning proposal, including the origin of their inspiration and their conception. Using their products, postcards with Cantonese idioms, as an example, he explained to the students some of the Cantonese terms. A Cantonese idiom, its direct translation in English, its Cantonese pronunciation and its definitions in both Chinese and English are printed on the right hand side of the postcard, while an illustration echoing the meaning of the colloquial idiom is printed on the left. They drew inspiration from a multiplayer computer fighting game called 'Little Fighter 2', which was the Final Year Project of two Computer Science majors in 1999. The game was for a time popular among Hong Kong teenagers, and played an important role in the construction of the popular culture in Hong Kong. Marco's team would like to follow the example of the Computer Science graduates, and make Cantonese idioms an indispensable part of the popular culture in Hong Kong. For more information about their project, please visit their Facebook page HERE. He ended the sharing session with introducing a good read recommended by Prof Kenneth YOUNG, The Rainforest: The Secret to Building the Next Silicon Valley.

The Professor 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 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 following the sharing session.

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.

Result of The Professor Julie Hung Hsua Yu Scholarship for Intellectual Excel-leration (2016–17)

The Scholarship this year was open for application in January and closed in March 2017. Interviews were conducted in April by a panel comprising Prof Julie YU, Ms Michelle LO and Mrs Amelia WONG. After deliberation, it was unanimously agreed that the Prof Julie Yu Scholarships be awarded to the following students:

Winners and their Creative Endeavours

Mr CHEN Zhihong, Year Two student majoring in Mechanical and Automation Engineering, is awarded a full scholarship of $50,000 for his ingenious idea.
His project is named 'COLOVE—Sensing the Colour of the World through Touching'.
Miss CHAN Yeuk Hei Joyce, Year Three student majoring in Medicine, is awarded a Certificate of Merit and $10,000. The panel appreciated her creativity and would like to give her some encouragement.
Her project is an Oral Documentation Booklet for the Uganda Medical Service Trip 2015.
Mr KULUBAEV Seiit, Year One student majoring in the Integrated BBA Programme, receives a Certificate of Merit and $10,000. The panel appreciated his creativity and would like to give him some encouragement.
His project is entitled '3.2.1998', a music album.