News & Stories

Miles from friends and family, exchange students often have a difficult time adjusting to local life. The “One More Pair of Chopsticks” program initiated by School of Science is changing all that with help from Hong Kong students. With markets, lanterns, gatherings, mooncakes and joy, Hong Kong people love the Mid-Autumn Festival. But often times exchange students can feel home sick and left out. To change all that, the One More Pair of Chopsticks program is pairing international scholars with local students to discover authentic local experiences. “I really had a great time with the international students and they both enjoyed the meal prepared by me and my family,” says Sara Man, a local undergraduate student who hosted Paula Grossman from Germany, and Angelica Intan from Indonesia.

Miss WONG Man Yi Rachel (Year 3, Division of Life Science) is an elite athlete in Acrobatic Gymnastics. She represented Hong Kong in?Level 6 Mixed Pair Category? at the Acrobatic Gymnastics National Championships 2017. The competition was taken place from 22 to26 Nov 2017 in Jiangsu which attracted all top acrobatic gymnasts from China to compete with each other.

Interview of Helene Schroeder & Joey Ho

Nearly 50 new students of T&M-DDP survived and felt accomplished in the survival camp held on 8-10 September 2017 at Sai Wan, Sai Kung, by completing various leadership training tasks in the wilderness.

Risk Management & Business Intelligence Program (RMBI) arranged a training workshop on Tableau, a business intelligence system, for RMBI students on 26 September 2017.

Around 60 mentors and students attended the Risk Management and Business Intelligence Program (RMBI) Mentoring Dinner to kick-start the Mentorship Program on 11 October 2017.

IPO Industrial Fellowship "Career Insider Series" is held regularly to provide insights and insider tips of different industries to IPO students. On 21 September 2017, our inspirational fellow, Mr Raymond NGAI, Head of IT Infrastructure and Operation Services of The Hong Kong Jockey Club presented his insider tips of Information Technology industry.

Running a start-up has never been an easy task. IPO Industrial Fellows, Mr Francis LO, Director, Talentum International Limited and Mr Rex MA, Co-founder & Managing Director, iGen6 shared their valuable experiences of establishing successful business with IPO students.