Polyu Summer Programme 2020
Dr. Matthew Pang's talk
Dr. Wai Yeung Yan's talk
Jeffrey Ma (speak representative) and Dr Wallace Lai (programme leader of BSc programme)
On 31 July 2020, PolyU Summer Programme – LSGI session was successfully held online. Every year, PolyU holds summer programme for secondary school students to provide them a taste of university study in different disciplines, as well as the latest programme information and career prospects. Due to the pandemic this year, the format and content of summer programme changed to online at the same time we can let more students joining our programme.
We are glad that over 100 participants joined us online. The half-day online programme started with talk on “Building the Smart City of Hong Kong and storytelling with maps” by Dr Matthew Pang. Students could understand the latest development of smart city and cutting-edge 3D mapping technologies, and how we contributed. Students were very eager to answer questions in the session.
The second part, “History of Hong Kong Land Boundary System”, was conducted by Dr Yan Waiyeung. It covered the background, Hong Kong’s land history and development of unique land boundary system for nearly 180 years. He also introduced the role of Land Surveying profession in different disputes and cases of land uses.
The last speaker of the day, Ir Dr Wallace Lai, shared the mystery underground as well as a virtual lab tour to Underground Utility Survey Lab of LSGI. Students could witness different utility survey technologies adopted in our scaledown environment in laboratory and how the practical underground utility surveying conducted in the mystery and invisible underground.
Last but not the least, Dr Lai shared the admission information and career prospect of LSGI undergraduate programmes and interviewed a student representative, Jeffrey Ma. Jeffrey shared his exchange experience to Canada and internship experience at Government during his study.
The event received overwhelming responses in both live question session and social media game. Students shared that they can catch a glimpse of various knowledge on LSGI disciplines and its applications through the facebook game after the event. Encouraged by the very positive responses, we will provide talks in monthly basis for outreaching secondary school students as part of our public engagement mission.
