Dear students,

The season of examinations has recently started in this city. International public exams, school mock exams and university final exams, etc. are descending like an avalanche upon students.  Being current candidates, you may feel very excited that your depth of learning would soon be gauged or you have been tensed up by the loads of review time and tasks.  At any rate, dealing with examinations is just a phase of your life. More episodes displaying all sorts of joys and sorrows will come.  Meanwhile, the most important thing is to give yourself a burst of applause for your participation in what you are required to do at this stage and in your position.  Carpe diem!

The Hong Kong Cultural Tours Project 2017-18 organised by this Centre has hitherto offered a series of training workshops that covered itinerary design, planning of tour routes and presentation skills, etc. to 40 students.  These students were even given chances to serve as docents and led a total of 400 local secondary students in March and April to review the history of Hong Kong so as to facilitate the latter's understanding of the culture of this city.

The "HAVE, U Can" Joint-university Camp has been scheduled for coming summer, and is now recruiting participants and mentors respectively.  Coordinated by this Centre, Faculty of Business Administration and Faculty of Engineering, this 5-day-and-4-night camp is a collaboration of 6 local universities.  It aims to facilitate students' whole-person development through a series of diverse and challenging activities, as well as to offer a unique residential experience.  Details are as follows:

This Centre, together with Faculty of Business Administration and Faculty of Engineering, serves as collaborator in the cross-institutional project on "Student Learning in Generic Competencies".  Other collaborators include The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, Lingnan University, The Education University of Hong Kong and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Co-organised by CUSE Fund under this Centre and Yunus Social Business Centre@CUHK, the case sharing session of S.I. Leadership Workshop II was successfully held on 11 April.  During the session, the team iSEE Mobile Apps, which assumed championship of the Hong Kong Social Enterprise Challenge in 2016, shared with participants (including the teams competing for the S.I. Leadership Award) their social innovation ideas and winning experience.

To celebrate the 100^th birthday of its Founder Dr. Tin Ka-ping, the Tin Ka Ping Foundation (the Foundation) has donated HK$3 million to each of the nine local universities to support student development and to enhance the quality of education.  The donation to CUHK is being used to support the research project titled 2018 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth of Department of Sports Science and Physical Education and the I·CARE Achievers Programme of this Centre.

As the final stop of the CUHK Blood Donation Campaign 2018, this Centre delicately staged the "Blood and Book Giving - A Challenge of Blood Donation Relay" on 6 April.  While every blood donor on that day got a gratis "CUHK ACTIVE CAMPUS" calendar as a token of our appreciation, participants of the Challenge were allowed to pick one donated book for free.  Besides, this Centre initiated a new attempt aiming to provide a relaxed and comfortable environment for the blood donors by playing music and health-related videos on the spot.

Jointly organised by this Centre and MLH Youth Cultural & Educational Foundation, and supported by Renaissance Foundation, the Screening and Debriefing Session of the documentary, The 17^th Journey of Compassion, was successfully held on 23 March.  The event was well-attended by an audience of over 300 which comprised CUHK staff, students and alumni, and the general public.

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