YES! KIDS CAN Summer Camp (promoting to P5 – P6)
July 2019 – August 2019
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PMQ
Edmond Wong (Edmond Wong Studio), Sean Leung (Abtitu Limited), Allan Au
Free (An amount of HKD$300 shall be paid as deposit, the full deposit shall be refunded upon completion of the programme)
Quotas are limited and registrations will be accepted on a first-come-first-served basis.
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YES! KIDS CAN!
This summer, let the kids take charge!
Creativity is never an exclusive trait of creative talents. If we allow children to cultivate creativity from a young age it will surely become their life-long asset. In the foreseeable future, our society will not only yearn for tech-savvy professionals, but also those who are creative and human-centric minded. Creativity is therefore crucial to make the world a better place to live in.
We believe that creativity is inborn and children are innately and infinitely creative. In what ways could we help them to boost their confidence and put creativity into action in their daily lives?
PMQ has partnered up with multidisciplinary designers and creative teams from architecture, art and STEM sectors to stimulate kids’ creative instincts, while unleashing their creativity and confidence. By adapting the five-stage practice system of Design Thinking – a methodology of creative problem-solving that includes the steps to ‘Empathize’, ‘Define’, ‘Ideate’, ‘Prototype’, and ‘Test’ – kids will learn to spot problems, generate solutions and finally actualise a design through empathetic and multi-perspective thinking. The process of trial and error to problem-solving will be enriched through teamwork and interpersonal communication.
Let’s give our children space and trust to see their creativity take flight! YES! KIDS CAN!
YES! KIDS CAN Summer Camp (promoting to P5 – P6)
Big dreams take small steps. For the senior group of our Yes! Kids Can Summer Camp, P5 and P6 students-to-be will engage in a series of discussions on global issues, led by architect and product designer Edmond Wong and professionals from mobile app building startup Abtitu Limited. Mentors will draw reference from the Sustainable Development Goals announced by the UN and incorporated in children’s welfare work by UNICEF as their teaching materials. Students will proceed to experience the steps of practicing Design Thinking, from exercising empathy to conducting observations, they will learn to bridge the gap between end-users and their respective problems with solutions derived from multi-perspective thinking. As a response to what they have discovered, students will collectively create an artistic or intelligent light device based on their users’ needs.
Programme rundown
| Day 1 | Students will enter the ‘black box’ to begin their three-day ‘journey of light’. As a class, they will learn about different sustainable energy sources and experiment with an array of electronic products. |
| Day 2 | Students will identify their users and define his/her problems. Through multi-perspective thinking, they will try to come up with various potential solutions and look for the most fitting one, they will also have begun to design and prototype their lighting devices. |
| Day 3 | The concept of Internet of Things (IOT) will be introduced to students. They will learn to control their lighting devices through programming and eventually build their products. The last section of this day will be a sharing session where students will present their tested designs to their teachers and parents (exact time to be confirmed). |
Teaching Team
- Edmond Wong – Architect and product designer, founder of Edmond Wong Studio (EWS). Edmond’s designs are not bounded by discipline, scale or medium. They are a combination of art and science with a humanistic touch. To him, design is like the process of cooking, it is a way of thinking and creating.
- Sean Leung – Co-founder and Managing Director of Abtitu Limited, a startup company for mobile app building. He has over 9 years of technical experience in Cloud architecture development through the application of Docker, Swarm, AWS, etc. Since 2015, he has been an active speaker and mentor in the startup community, schools and corporations where he teaches about technology and Design Thinking.
- Allan Au – New media artist and programme engineer specialising in interactive installations. Allan is passionate in collaborating with designers and artists from different fields and his works have been exhibited at various art, design and architecture exhibitions, including the Hong Kong Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture and other local music festivals.
Target
Students being promoted to P5 to P6
Class Size
20 participants per class
Language
Cantonese
Registration Procedure (Online Registration): POPTicket
*All spots have been filled including group and individual applications.
Thank you for your support!
Camp Schedule
Every Thursday to Saturday, each class lasts for 3 days. Participants are entitled to have one hour of lunch break every day, lunch is not included.
| CLASS | DATE & TIME | CLASS | DATE & TIME |
|---|---|---|---|
| C1 FULL (GROUP APPLICATION ONLY) |
4/7 (Thu) | 10:00 – 16:30 5/7 (Fri) | 10:00 – 16:30 6/7 (Sat) | 10:00 – 16:30 |
C5 FULL |
1/8 (Thu) | 10:00 – 16:30 2/8 (Fri) | 10:00 – 16:30 3/8 (Sat) | 10:00 – 16:30 |
| C2 FULL |
11/7 (Thu) | 10:00 – 16:30 12/7 (Fri) | 10:00 – 16:30 13/7 (Sat) | 10:00 – 16:30 |
C6 FULL |
8/8 (Thu) | 10:00 – 16:30 9/8 (Fri) | 10:00 – 16:30 10/8 (Sat) | 10:00 – 16:30 |
| C3 FULL (GROUP APPLICATION ONLY) |
18/7 (Thu) | 10:00 – 16:30 19/7 (Fri) | 10:00 – 16:30 20/7 (Sat) | 10:00 – 16:30 |
C7 FULL |
15/8 (Thu) | 10:00 – 16:30 16/8 (Fri) | 10:00 – 16:30 17/8 (Sat) | 10:00 – 16:30 |
| C4 FULL |
25/7 (Thu) | 10:00 – 16:30 26/7 (Fri) | 10:00 – 16:30 27/7 (Sat) | 10:00 – 16:30 |
C8 FULL (GROUP APPLICATION ONLY) |
22/8 (Thu) | 10:00 – 16:30 23/8 (Fri) | 10:00 – 16:30 24/8 (Sat) | 10:00 – 16:30 |
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Flashback of last year WOW Summer Camp to see what our students did and learnt in a series of fun activities: https://youtu.be/rWNZh4gjeck
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