The final competition of the 2019 Yushiu Cup Creative Awards—"iGen Your Times"— was held at the headquarters of the Nanhua Lianhua Shentong Group in Taipei. The Department of Information and Communication, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, stood out among the hundreds of works in the Microfilm Category and won first prize and four excellent awards

【The work "Helping the Seedlings Grow Without Pulling Them Up" by the Department of Information and Communication, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology won first prize of micro-film category in the 16th Yushiu Cup Creative Awards--"iGen Your Times": the award-winning students Lin Su (first from left), Wei-Lun Tseng (first from right), Zao-Rui Liao (second from right) and his students in the special education class of Anching Elementary School】

More than 1,000 teachers and students from more than 100 colleges and universities joined the competition, which was divided into three categories: software application category, industrial design category, and microfilm category. After eight months of preliminary contests, the final one came. In addition to the topics given by the Lianhua Group to the micro-film competition, the participants had to work together with the National Federation of Teachers' Unions, shooting for the subject “food and agriculture education” in small and medium-sized kindergartens island wide, by which the competition was extended to photography, drawing, and writing. , greatly increasing the participation of the society. The student team of the Department of Information and Communication was also actively involved in filming and interviewing teachers and students participating in the “Food and Agriculture Education” in the South to record their efforts and achievements.

【Prof. Dan-Ching Liang (fifth from right), the instructor of the teams from the Department of Information and Communication, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, and the award-winning teams—"Helping the Seedlings Grow without Pulling Them Up" and "The Rising Sun— Little Gardener in Food Education】

The first prize of "Microfilm for Food and Agriculture Education" was given to "Helping the Seedlings Grow without Pulling Them Up." The team of students from the Department of Information and Communication, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, took the daily life of Mr. Zao-Rui Liao and the children of the special education class in Anching Elementary School, Tainan, featuring the patience and persistence of Mr. Liao's life. The spirit of the children’s slow but serious study touched everyone. The team leader of the award-winning team, Lin Su, said that during the filming process, they learned to know the learning situation of the students in the special education class. They found that the special education teacher was in a very tough situation and needed to pay more love and patience than average teachers. He hoped that everyone could treat the special education right and fair, as the children in the class really need great support from the public.

【The teams from the Department of Information and Communication, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology: and the award-winning teams—"Helping the Seedlings Grow without Pulling Them Up," "The Rising Sun— Little Gardener in Food Education," “Treasure under the Earth,” and “Little Seedlings.” In addition, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology also won four excellent awards, and the winning teams are "The Rising Sun— Little Gardener in Food Education," “Treasure under the Earth,” and “Little Seedlings.” Together they won great appreciation from the judges with their brilliant performance, bringing back fruitful results. [A scene from the first-prize winning work "Helping the Seedlings Group without Pulling Them Up 】

Prof. Dan-Ching Liang said that the award-winning team students had been shooting for more than three months, documenting how teachers implemented and promoted "food education." The most touching part of the filming process was how the little gardeners learned to observe the small fields they are responsible for, through the process of sowing, fertilizing, weeding, watering, and fruiting. Through the "competition learning, the student team also implemented the concept of "doing middle school and learning by doing," learning "how to use a video to tell a touching story." During the filming, the student team captured the interaction among many teachers and students in the precious landscape of the little gardeners and the land. Through the stories of the teachers and students at the school, the interactive picture of people and land was added to the boring planting process. This was what moved all the judges in their review.

【List of winners】

President Deng-Maw Lu of Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology said that "food and agriculture" are essentially two sides of one single coin; people can't live without them. He always encourages people to be close to the land, and they also like to farm in the fields. The fact that the student team could win the award of the microfilm with the theme of "Food and Agriculture Education" showed that they had fully implement the "learning by doing" spirit encouraged by the school to ask students to develop professional practice skills through competition learning and glory for the school.

【Awards List of works by Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology】