How DC Comics superhero Flash inspired pupils at Marymount Secondary School for computer project to save Hong Kong from next super typhoon
- Project was part of an initiative by the girls’ school in Happy Valley to revamp its computer literacy classes to promote innovation
- One group came up with a self-inflated portable safe house to help Flash in the event of a building collapsing
That was the question posed to pupils at Marymount Secondary School to get them to come up with creative ideas to solve societal issues for a year-end, graded assignment.
The project was part of an initiative by the girls’ school in Happy Valley to revamp its computer literacy classes to promote innovation, while allowing the Secondary Two pupils to have a sense of ownership in their work.
Shirley Ann Fu Tang, head of the IT and computer subjects department and the main coordinator of the initiative, said that in redesigning the curriculum, teachers included the two Es of empathy and entrepreneurship in STEAM, or science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics, education.
“Pupils cannot fully get into the mode of creation and design thinking unless they see a real need,” she said.
