15 - 28 Jul 2023
EPGL (Summer Program 2023)
The Enrichment Program for Gifted Learners aims to nurture high potential students by providing them with opportunities to explore different interdisciplinary areas of study, so as to broaden their knowledge and let them experience the teaching style and learning environment of a university under the guidance of HKUST’s faculty and professional instructors.
| Organised By | The Centre for the Development of the Gifted and Talented / The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Official Website | About Enrichment Program for Gifted Learners: https://cdgt.hkust.edu.hk/epgl-overview Programme Information: https://cdgt.hkust.edu.hk/epgl-courselist |
| Online Application Form | https://ust.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eXSUvDIES5iccPc |
| Enrolment Schedule | 27 March - 20 April 2023 |
| Mode | Face-to-face mode (Note: Online mode may be adopted subject to the latest pandemic situation. Course instructors may modify course contents to facilitate the change of delivery mode if necessary.) |
| Venue | HKUST Campus |
| Enquiry | Email: cdgt@ust.hk Tel: 3469 2006 / 3469 2643 |
| Attachment(s) | Poster |
(1) Little Programmer: Introduction to Scratch
| Target Participant | Primary students (P5 – P6) |
| Pre-requisite | Students with basic computer skills. |
| Description |
With the new advances in the artificial intelligence (AI) technology, digital computers are providing an extremely promising future to the humanity in changing the world forever. Those who are youngsters today will be the one living with this revolutionary change.
Scratch is a programming language developed by MIT Media Lab. With drag-n-drop, you can easily create projects with audio and video effects, and share your creations with others. This course will focus on sharpening the basic logical skills required for driving a dumb digital computer into an intelligent “electronic brain”. In a relaxed and fun way, instructor will be showing students how constructing logics can drive the general purpose computers. Students will have a glimpse into the logical abilities required for understanding the world of digital intelligence. Through discussions, demonstrations, class exercises and competition, students will solve programming problems and maze challenges. |
| Programme Schedule |
Lectures Date: 15, 17, 19, 22 & 24 July 2023 Time: 2:30pm - 5:30pm Practice Date: 26 July 2023 Time: 2:30pm - 6:00pm |
| Language |
Cantonese supplemented with simple English
(Note: Lecture notes in Chinese) |
(2) Python for Everyone
| Target Participant | Secondary students |
| Pre-requisite | Students with basic computer skills and interested in computer science and programming. |
| Description |
The ability to code computer programs is an important part of literacy in today’s society. Coding allows you to use computer as a tool to express yourself and realize your creative ideas. This course is a programming course for everyone, teaching the popular Python programming language. No pre-requisite knowledge in programming is needed. The course introduces programming fundamentals, such as variables and expressions, program control flow with branches and loops, functions, strings, and lists. Via lectures and programming exercises, you will be able to write simple Python programs to solve practical problems. Learning to program is ultimately about learning to think logically and to approach problems methodically. Such abilities can be carried ahead and prepare you for any advanced programming courses in the future. |
| Programme Schedule |
Date: 17, 19, 21, 24, 26 & 28 July 2023 Time: 10:00am - 12:30pm |
| Language | English |
(3) Python: Beyond the Basics
| Target Participant | Secondary students |
| Pre-requisite | Students who have completed “Python for Everyone” or with basic programming knowledge, such as variables, control flow and functions. |
| Description |
This course is a continuation of the introductory course “Python for Everyone”. After learning some programming fundamentals of Python, are you ready to proceed to more advanced features and level up your programming skills to solve complex problems? In this course, you will learn how to utilize functions in different ways to make the code more manageable and flexible. Advanced topics include basic file I/O, creating Graphical User Interface (GUI) using the turtle module, recursive functions (recursion) and introduction to object-oriented programming. Via lectures and programming exercises, you will be able to create an interactive program and visualize your creative ideas with file processing and GUI programming. |
| Programme Schedule |
Date: 17, 19, 21, 24, 26 & 28 July 2023 Time: 2:30pm - 5:00pm |
| Language | English |