The University of Hong Kong Pharmacology and Pharmacy Visit
S4 and S5 students joined a visit to Pharmacology and Pharmacy Department of The University of Hong Kong. Through the tour of visiting the pharmacy, experiencing the daily operation of the dispensary and discussion with the professionals, students could know more about the career and development of Pharmacology and Pharmacy.
Career Talk form The University of Science and Technology
An admission staff from The University of Science and Technology gave an on-site career talk for our senior form students. One of the alumnus of our school also came and gave sharing on the university life in HKUST. Students got more details on the up-to date admission requirements, career and development in science as well as having an insight on the fantastic life in university.
Hong Kong Chemistry Olympiad for Secondary Schools
The Hong Kong Chemistry Olympiad for Secondary Schools is a project learning competition jointly organized by the Hong Kong Association for Science and Mathematics Education (HKASME), the Hong Kong Chemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry. It aims at promoting the interest of students in learning Chemistry and developing students' problem solving, communication and science process skills through project learning. The theme of this year was 'Chemistry of alcohol'. Five form 4 and five form 5 students were nominated to participate the competition. The investigation topic of S4 and S5 were 'Behind the scene: Our Daily Use Antiseptic' and 'The Effect of Alcohol in Different Coatings' respectively. Two teams got Honor Awards and one student got Best Presenter Award in the competition.
HKBU Summer Laboratory Workshops
Date: 26-7-2022
To provide students with more practical opportunities and apprise them of the importance of chemical testing in our daily life, 14 S.5 Chemistry students were nominated by their subject teachers to take part in the "Summer Laboratory Workshops on Chemical Testing" commissioned by Hong Kong Council for Testing and Certification. The 3-hour workshop was held in the Chemistry Laboratory at Hong Kong Baptist University. With the supervision of lecturers and technicians, students successfully determined the amount of nitrogen dioxide in air.
The Hong Kong Student Science Project Competition (HKSSPC) 2021
On 7th August 2021 (First round) and 8th August (Final round), five S5 students of Wong Shiu Chi Secondary School took part in The Hong Kong Student Science Project Competition (HKSSPC) 2021 held by The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups, The Education Bureau, The Hong Kong Science Museum and The Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation, and supported by The Innovation and Technology Commission and The Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences. They are Poon Wing Yu (team leader). Hong Heng, Lee Ying Yi, Hui Shing Chun and Wan Yau Long. The school team Got the first runner-up in the Investigation Group of the Senior Division in the competition.
The school project, with the English title “Nanocellulose from Sugarcane Bagasse for Absorbing Heavy Metal Ions.” and Chinese title “蔗來一用”, involves the production of nitro-oxidized nanocellulose (NO-NCS) from sugarcane bagasse and using the NO-NCS to remove the heavy metal ions of very low concentrations in water.
S5 Chemistry Career Talk on 16 April 2021
Chemistry Department and Career and Further Studies Committee invited Dr. Chan Ka Long Donald (Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, CUHK) to hold a talk with the theme ‘Nanochemistry and the Environment’ for S5 Chemistry students to broaden their view in Chemistry on 16 April 2021 at Career Room. The talk is about the basic concepts in nanochemistry, how it contributes to the society and its environmental impacts.
What are SBA Experiments?
In order to consolidate the concepts related to chemistry and scientific investigative skills, School-based Assessment (SBA) is compulsory for all chemistry students. Over the two years of S5 and S6, there should be at least one assessment for Volumetric Analysis (VA), one assessment for Qualitative Analysis (QA) and two assessments for Other Experiments (EXPT).
Although our S6 students were doing a SBA practice, they were always conscientious and persistent.
HKU Chemistry and Admission Talk
Date: 22 Nov, 2018
41 S4 and S5 Chemistry students joined a Chemistry Lecture and Admission Talk of the University of Hong Kong on 22 Nov, 2018. Our alumnus Dr. H. Y. Au-Yeung, assistant professor of the Chemistry Department of HKU, conducted a Lecture called A Brief Journey into the Chemistry of Colour and Light and introduced the curriculum and admission requirements of the Science Faculty. Moreover, he demonstrated an impressive experiment to our students. During the Chemistry Lecture, our students were eager to ask questions.
We were most grateful to Dr. Au-Yeung for his help.
Hong Kong Chemistry Olympiad for Secondary Schools (2017-2018)
The following students were chosen to participate in Hong Kong Chemistry Olympiad for Secondary Schools (2017-2018) held by Hong Kong Association For Science And Mathematics Education.
Name Class Chiang Wing Yi 4E Wong Ping Suet 4E Yip Ching 4E Teacher advisor: Dr. Chu Hon Yue
The title of the project is “Refreshing Water With Tea”. The project aims at investigating the possibility of removing trace amounts of heavy metal ions in industrial waste water by used tea leaves. We used a primitive precipitate method and an innovative method (based on the concept of differentiation) to find the absorption capacities and the absorption abilities, respectively, of four types of used tea leaves (Iron Goddess, Red Tea, Jasmine and Pu-erh) for seven types of heavy metal ions [Ni2+(aq), Pb2+(aq), Cu2+(aq), Mn2+(aq), Hg2+(aq), Zn2+(aq) and Fe3+(aq)].
The school team has got an honours award.
Our chemistry students were brilliant demonstrators to Primary students
Date: 5 to 15 December, 2017
There were nine primary schools in Tai Po district visited our school during 5 to 15 December, 2017. Sixteen S5 chemistry students were volunteered to demonstrate and explain chemistry experiments to these primary six students. With the help of our S5 demonstrators, the primary six students could carry out flame tests. They could even make their own 'invisible pictures with different chemicals which showed different colours only in the presence of a universal indicator. No wonder why our chemistry demonstrators were always surrounded by crowds of primary six students.
HKU Pharmacology and Pharmacy Laboratories Tour
Date: 4 Nov, 2017
20 S5 and S6 Chemistry students visited the Pharmacology and Pharmacy laboratories in the University of Hong Kong on 4 Nov, 2017. Our alumnus Dr. George P. H. Leung, Acting Head and Associate Professor of the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, HKU, introduced the curriculum and admission requirements of the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine. Moreover, he showed our students how animal cells and tissues were stored and analyzed, how different types of medicine were manufactured and what pharmacists did in their jobs. During the Pharmacology and Pharmacy laboratories tour, our students were allowed to see some common analytical instruments they learned in Chemistry and Biology. Our students were eager to ask questions and pack medicine tablets.
We were most grateful to Dr. George P. H. Leung for his help.
Hong Kong Chemistry Olympiad for Secondary Schools (2015-2016)
Five S5 students: Lam Nga Wai (5A), Lee Pui Yee (5A), Wong Ka Yu (5A), Ho Cheuk Nam Ryan (5E) and Mak Siu Hong (5E) participated in the Hong Kong Chemistry Olympiad for Secondary Schools (2015 - 2016) which was held by Hong Kong Association for Science and Mathematics Education. The theme of the project-based competition this year was green chemistry. Our students carried out a scientific investigation from mid-January to the beginning of March in 2016. The research was about the manufacture of a polymer which could be used to detect and remove mercury(II) ions in aqueous solutions. The polymer was made by adding molten sulphur to a hot limonene. The limonene was extracted from the orange and lemon zest by steam distillation.
HKU Open Day Chemistry Laboratories Tour
26 S5 Chemistry students visited the Chemistry Laboratories in the University of Hong Kong. Our alumnus Dr. H. Y. Au-Yeung, assistant professor of the Chemistry Department of HKU, introduced the curriculum and admission requirements of the Science Faculty. Moreover, he showed our students some common analytical instruments they learned in S5. During the Chemistry laboratories tour, our students were eager to do experiments such as making polyvinyl alcohol slime and ask questions.
We were most grateful to Dr. Au-Yeung for his help.
Science Tour Science Drama Show
In our school, a fast-paced and fact-packed science interactive show was conducted on 13th March by the Outreach team, London Science Museum. With a lot of demonstrations and exciting experiments, the show told us what the world around us is made of and the differences among elements, molecules and compounds.
"Science Alive 2015" Student Workshop
Our junior form students were invited to participate the "Science Alive 2015" Student Workshop in the Laboratory, Hong Kong Science Museum. By doing the iodine clock experiment, students investigated dilution and learn how to measure volume accurately to facilitate chemical reactions. Moreover, students mixed their own slime with different colours at the polymorph and slime experiment. They also explored how changing the proportions of chemicals in the slime can change the physical properties of slime. Students were introduced to thermoplastic polymorph. All the experiments were facilitated by the Bristol ChemLabS of School of Chemistry, University of Bristol.
Science Alive was jointly organised by the British Council, the Hong Kong Science Museum, the Education Bureau and the Hong Kong Education City Limited. Chemistry is the study of the basic characteristics of matter and the different ways in which they react or combine with other matter and energy. Therefore Chemistry was featured as the theme of Science Alive 2015. Through various activities, our students can discover that chemistry is all around us and learn more about the molecular structures of the things we can see and those we cannot.
A visit of HKBU's Science Open Day to explore science behind crystals and its applications
S5 chemistry students participated in the HKBU's Science Open Day which revolved around the theme "A Crystal Future" on 3 July, 2014.
First they learned about an innovative topic "The Control of Light by Photonic Crystal" in a seminar by a HKBU scholar. Then they had a first-hand experience on making reusable instant heat pad and learned the chemistry related to it.
Food dye and chemistry
Chocolate beans are colourful. They are red, orange, blue, purple and yellow, etc. Do you realize these colours are chemicals? Moreover, the brown coating is a mixture of orange, red, yellow and blue dyes.
S5 chemistry students can separate and identify the colour components of the dye in chocolate bean coating by paper chromatography. Doing experiments can stimulate their interest and motivation for learning chemistry. Daily-life application of chemistry makes the study of chemistry interesting.
The Hong Kong Student Science Competition 2013
A school team had participated in a science project competition, The Hong Kong Student Science Competition 2013, this year. The science competition was organized by Innovation and Technology Commission, The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups, Education Bureau and Hong Kong Science Museum. The school team member includes Chan Cheuk Hin Charlie (5E), Ho Cheuk Man (5E), Lam Man Wan (5E) and Ng Chi Ho (5E). The project titled as "The Enlightenment of Food". In the project, a biofuel cell using different fruit juices (orange juice, apple juice, grape juice and pear juice) as the energy sources to generate electricity was investigated. A yeast was employed to break down the saccharides in the juices and released electrons which passed through the external circuit from the anode to the cathode in the chemical cell. Electron mediators, methylene blue and potassium ferricyanide, were added to the anode half-cell and cathode half-cell respectively to facilitate the electron transfer from the solution to the electrodes. The project was aimed at finding a method to reuse fruit debris for generating electricity.
Reading Across the Curriculum Showcase 2012-2013
To try to view our world from the perspective of an aspiring teenage chemist, thirty three S4 science students have participated in the reading across the curriculum programme. After reading books about chemistry, the students produce their own chemistry mini-books, magazines and study guides. Four groups of students were chosen to present their products at the S4 RACP showcase. Other S4 and S5 students also visited the exhibition to share their discoverings.
Hong Kong Student Science Project Competition 2012
The Hong Kong Student Science Project Competition 2012 was jointly organized by the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups, the Education Bureau, the Hong Kong Science Museum, the Innovation and Technology Commission and the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks. Our school sent a team of form 5 students, including 5E Chan Lok Man Melody, 5E Chan Teenie, 5E Leung Ka Hung, 5E Shing Ming Tony and 5E Wu Hin Yan to participate in the competition. Dr. Chu Hon Yue was the teacher advisor of the representative team.
Inspired by the invention of the self-heating cup which made use of the exothermic chemical reaction between calcium oxide and water, the team did experiments and investigations using crystallization and dissolution of chemicals to make a desirable thermal cup which was able to cool down hot beverages to a suitable drinking temperature promptly and keep it warm for a long period of time.
Our team was selected out of 75 school teams to be one of the five finalists after presenting their project in the Hong Kong Science Park on 12 May 2012. They were then invited to the final round of the competition on 2 June 2012. Eventually, their project 'My cup of "T"' came third in the competition and gained glory for our school.
"How Aspirin, Morphine and Other Molecules Changed the World" by Professor D.L. Phillips,HKU
A science talk was delivered by Professor D.L. Phillips of the Faculty of Science, The University of Hong Kong to our S6 and S7 students. The topic "How Aspirin, Morphine and Other Molecules Changed the World" gave students a clear concept of the importance of chemistry. Moreover, practical information about the admission of the Faculty of Science, The University of Hong Kong was shared with S6 and S7 students.
Learning Chemistry Through Experiments
In order to consolidate the concepts related to chemistry and scientific investigative skills, and to foster the development of generic skills such as creativity, critical thinking, communication and problem-solving, there are a lot of experiments introduced in the course. Students always feel fun and have a sense of achievements when they can make some colourful chemicals in the end!
