Signature Programmes
Winter Academy on automation of shoreline clean-up
The six-day event will focus on creating a deeper understanding of the world's oceans, the challenges around different forms of plastic pollution, their dangers to marine life and habitat, and various ingenious solutions which have been developed around the world. Followed by inspiring them to contribute to this arsenal of clean-up tools by designing and building systems to aid in the clean-up effort. The students will be working diverse groups from across the campus to tackle this challenge. They will be aided by staff from Lingnan as well from various NGOs working on this specific challenge.
Final output will be the prototypes which have been refined, a process document and future plans for the prototype.
Objectives
- To enhance the understanding of HK and global ocean and shoreline pollution due to plastics
- To ignite the creativity among Lingnan students to design innovative tools for cleaning
- To build prototypes which can be deployment ready for small-scale pilot projects
Program Details
Venue: Lingnan Library Ground and Mezzanine floors.
Date and time: 3rd Jan – 8th Jan 2022 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM
Incentives: 6 ILP (Civic Education and Leadership Development) & 6 ILP (Intellectual and Entrepreneurship Development)
Deposit: 500 HKD to enrol in the programme and will be refunded upon 80% attendance. (Deadline to pay deposit 15th Dec 2021)
Program Facilitator
Mr. Brian KATONA (Senior Project Engineer)
Dr. Aloysius Wilfred Raj AROKIARAJ (Associate Programme Director)
Program Structure
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Schedule:
Day
AM
PM
3rd Jan 2022 (Mon)
Introduction about Marine Plastic pollution
Current solutions in the field and in development
4th Jan 2022 (Tue)
Designing potential prototypes through design thinking process
Guided early prototyping session
5th Jan 2022 (Wed)
Group prototyping session
Testing early prototypes
6th Jan 2022 (Thu)
Prototype fabrication and needs based tools training
Prototype fabrication and needs based tools training
7th Jan 2022 (Fri)
Prototype fabrication and needs based tools training
Prototype field testing
8th Jan 2022 (Sat)
Next steps
Documentation and storytelling
Application
Link to register: click HERE
Application Deadline: 1st December 2021 (Deadline extended)
Enquiries
Aloysius Wilfred Raj Arokiaraj
Email: aloy@ln.edu.hk | Phone: 2616 8078
Mr. Brian KATONA
Email: briankatona@ln.edu.hk | Phone: 2616 8066
Maggie Cheng
Email: maggiecheng@ln.edu.hk | Phone: 2616 8051