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COHORT 5 · CHANGEMAKER
A year on stray dogs
From pitch day to teaching in the primary school, in five posts.
Project presentationsCohort 5
Changemaker pitch day
Presenting the stray-dog proposal to principals, editors and professors, and the small disasters of the trip to Taichung.
Course activitiesCohort 5
Changemaker: the stray-dog life-education camp
On the last day of winter tutoring the team ran a camp on campus where children learned about stray dogs through an RPG, role-play and outdoor games.
Course activitiesCohort 5
Teaching the stray-dog lesson in the primary school
The winter-camp course rebuilt as a two-hour lesson for a sixth-grade class: paper dog ears, a talk, a treasure hunt and a board game.
External competitionsCohort 5
Changemaker: the stray-dog documentary
The documentary from the second Changemaker project, with the full credits of the students, mentors and partner organisations behind it.
Cohort 5
Changemaker: the final chapter
A year on stray dogs comes to an end. The team looks back on choosing the subject, the setbacks, and why the work does not stop with the project.
Competition results
14 posts37th AERC Asian Robotics Competition
Two months of preparation, then a first competition for a mixed team of first-, second- and third-years who ta…
Tamkang girls at the Asian Girls Campaign
Second-year students represented Taiwan in the Garden of Hope Foundation's Asian Girls Campaign on the SDGs, g…
Second-year academic showcase: self-directed learning and making
The class's Tamsui board game and a water-curtain cooler took the best creativity award at the second-year sho…
Eighth President Tsai and High-School Students Forum
Two teams took a circular-agriculture proposal to the forum in Taipei. Neither was drawn to present, but the d…
2023 International CyberFair: gold for "Mr Democracy, Lee Teng-hui"
A site about the school's most famous alumnus, former president Lee Teng-hui, won gold at the International Cy…
Runner-up in the 2022 national virtual investment competition
A team came second nationally in the high-school division of the virtual investment competition at Southern Ta…
Sports day results, 2022
The class's placings across tug-of-war, relays and field events, and thanks to the volunteers who kept the day…
2022 International CyberFair: platinum for "Dr Mackay in Taiwan"
First- and second-years built a site on Dr Mackay for the 150th anniversary of his arrival and won the platinu…
Fourth place in the 12th international Chinese e-book competition
Ko Hui-hsin's e-book on whale-watching at Guishan Island placed fourth among thousands of entries.
Karaoke final: Hung Chia-yang
The class's best mood-setter sang Yoga Lin's "Lying" in the school karaoke final.
Three years running: Christmas decoration champions
The film Till We Meet Again woven into the nativity story, and a third consecutive win.
Sixth President Tsai forum: award ceremony
The team's education proposal won the best static workshop award with 1,343 votes.
New Taipei Literature Award: distinction in the youth essay category
Ko Hui-hsin on writing, and on the friend the essay was for.
2020 Taiwan CyberFair: gold for "Rugby Spirit"
First gold for the school in the local clubs category, for a site on the school's rugby tradition built from O…
Project presentations
25 postsChangemaker pitch day
Presenting the stray-dog proposal to principals, editors and professors, and the small disasters of the trip t…
Presentation day at Tamkang University
A Saturday of project presentations at Tamkang University, and the first time all three cohorts presented toge…
Tamkang girls at the Asian Girls Campaign
Second-year students represented Taiwan in the Garden of Hope Foundation's Asian Girls Campaign on the SDGs, g…
Second-year academic showcase: self-directed learning and making
The class's Tamsui board game and a water-curtain cooler took the best creativity award at the second-year sho…
Four board games for Mackay Day, with Tamkang University
Students launched four board games about Mackay, rugby, Tamsui and numbers, made with the university's educati…
Fifth project showcase with Tamkang University
Reflections from students in all three years after presenting their projects at Tamkang University.
Video project: the social safety net
A third-cohort video project on Taiwan's social safety net.
Video project: Bag to Bag
A third-cohort project on putting idle reusable shopping bags back into use.
Video project: after the Hong Kong protests
A third-cohort project on the aftermath of the anti-extradition movement and Taiwan's support systems.
Video project: fake news
A third-cohort video project on misinformation.
Video project: Marine Litter Patrol
Sparked by a BBC report on ocean pollution during the pandemic: planning with 5W1H, an animated presenter, and…
Video project: a job called street performer
A project on the position of street performers in Taiwan and why the subject deserves attention.
Video project: gender on the sports field
An all-female team on women's rights in sport, prompted by a visit to the national women's museum and the stor…
Academic programme showcase
Second-year students took the best project, best teamwork and best humanistic value awards at the school's sho…
Fourth cohort: futures studies showcase
After two terms of futures studies with Tamkang University, students presented how technology might answer cli…
Second cohort project showcase
Students on taking part in the Bag to Bag campaign: building the collection box, filming it, and promoting it …
Video project: shared scooters
A second-cohort video project on shared scooters.
Video project: inertial thinking
A first-cohort video project.
Video project: the light rail comes to the Old Street
Tamsui residents ask what the light rail will do to the Old Street: more visitors, or more trouble?
Video project: Festinger's law and the butterfly effect
A first-cohort video project.
Video project: time traveller
A first-cohort video project.
Video project: SARS
A first-cohort video project.
Video project: global warming
A first-cohort video project.
Video project: basketball then and now
A first-cohort video project.
Video project: shooting form and the arc of the ball
A first-cohort video project.
Visits
20 postsA day of AI at Tamkang University
Generating images from text, editing them into short clips, then working with webcams in the afternoon session…
Visiting Chinese Culture University
In a cold snap with snow on the peaks, first-years split across 21 department camps. One student writes about …
Tamkang University business school experience
Financial English taught entirely in English, and a statistics class on visualising data with Orange3.
A day at the Presidential Office and the two Yuans
The Presidential Office, the Legislative Yuan and the Judicial Yuan in one day, to put the civics textbook in …
At the 2023 Taiwan Education Technology Expo
The school was invited to demonstrate game-based learning about Tamsui and Dr Mackay, with Tamkang University'…
Three-day camp at Tamkang University
Fieldwork, professors and group leaders, and a final presentation that turned out fuller than a week of school…
Humanities class at Chinese Culture University
A day in the journalism, international trade, accounting and business departments, including the podcast studi…
Taipei University of Marine Technology and the Bali animal shelter
Pet-care lectures in the morning and volunteering at the Bali stray-dog shelter in the afternoon.
Winter visit to Tamkang University
3D animation, CoSpaces and VR in the education technology department.
Winter visit to Huafan University
Sky lanterns at Pingxi, then data visualisation, drones and Power BI at Huafan University.
Runner-up in the 2022 national virtual investment competition
A team came second nationally in the high-school division of the virtual investment competition at Southern Ta…
Kainan University's aviation department
A cabin mock-up, emergency equipment, flight simulation and a lesson in the basics of lift, drag, thrust and w…
Summer visit: the National Taiwan Museum
Taiwan's peoples and history in one museum, and the marimo that stole the show.
Summer visit: the Presidential Office
Security checks, a guided tour through Taiwan's path to democracy, and its mountains and wildlife.
Summer visit: the Legislative Yuan
The Sunflower Movement, how the chamber shrank from 225 seats to 113, and a look at the floor from the gallery…
Summer visit: Jiufen and Jinguashi
The Gold Museum's mining tunnels, then taro balls on Jiufen Old Street.
Tamkang University's education technology department
Phone photography and telling a story in pictures, then the virtual studio and recording rooms.
Chinese Culture University's mass communication department
A turn in the director's chair in the control room.
Taiwan's historic buildings: the Presidential Office
The building's history from 1919, and photographs with the president and vice-president via AR.
Visiting the Chung Chao-cheng literary park
First-years visited the park of the writer known as the mother of Taiwanese literature, an alumnus of the scho…
Service learning
4 postsTaipei University of Marine Technology and the Bali animal shelter
Pet-care lectures in the morning and volunteering at the Bali stray-dog shelter in the afternoon.
Summer service learning: caring for older neighbours
A lecture on long-term care at St John's University, then hands-on work at a community care centre in Sanzhi.
Beach clean-up at Linshanbi
A morning on elderly care, an afternoon picking up a large bag of rubbish at Baishawan.
A summer at the National Palace Museum
A student's account of being selected as a youth cultural ambassador at the National Palace Museum.
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