In the 17th Yushiu Cup Creative Awards—"Playing Crossover"—in 2020, more than 1,000 teachers and students from more than 100 colleges and universities participated in the competition. The competition was divided into three categories: Software Application, Industrial Design, and Microfilm Production. After an eight-month fierce competition in the preliminary round and the semi-finals, the competition announced the final results a few days ago. The Department of Information and Communication of Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology stood out among the 195 video creations in the Microfilm Production category, winning the Silver Award, the Best Selection Award, and four Excellence Awards in the Food Education Creative Microfilm Category.

【[The work “The Time of Searching as We Grew” by the team of the Department of Information and Communication, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, won the Silver Award of the Food Education Creative Microfilm Category in the 17th Yushiu Cup Creative Awards: team advisor Prof. Dan-Ching Liang (middle) and her students (from left to right) Jun-Da Zhu, Di-Peng Ouyang, Jia-Jun Wang, Wei-Hao Lan, Pin-Heng Liao and Rou-Fen Wang.]

The student team used their creativity across generations as they entered the "Zanliang Academy" for elementary and middle school for their film production. Based on the theme "We have grown up," they produced a film that complied with the theme "Food Farming Education." The teachers and students of the Department of Information and Communication took the “Zanliang Academy” campus in the south-central area as the shooting site. After the teachers and students conducted field investigations, they planned out documentaries and wrote drama scripts. As a result, the team stood out among 196 outstanding microfilm works, including the Silver Award, the Best Selection Award, and four Excellence Awards—a total of six awards. The university became the best winner of all the participating colleges and universities.

[The work “Growth of Our Dreamland” by the team of the Department of Information and Communication, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, won the Best Selection Award of the Food Education Creative Microfilm Category in the 17th Yushiu Cup Creative Awards: team advisor Prof. Dan-Ching Liang (middle) and her students (from left to right) Jun-Da Zhu, Di-Peng Ouyang, Jia-Jun Wang, Wei-Hao Lan, Pin-Heng Liao, and Rou-Fen Wang.]

The winning works of the Silver Award and the Best Selection Award of the Microfilm-Food Farmer Education category were produced and produced by the student team of the Department of Information and Communication (Jun-Da Zhu, Di-Peng Ouyang, Jia-Jun Wang, Wei-Hao Lan, Pin-Heng Liao, and Rou-Fen Wang); Jia-Jun Wang was the director of the three winning works; he wrote plans and scripts, shooting two feature films and a documentary microfilm. The work “The Time of Searching as We Grew” won a silver award, and the microfilm was produced in the field of the Kangoka Elementary School in Taichung City. The teacher and students of the school participated in the performance; the story describes a boy who has a shy personality and dares not interact with his classmates. Later, he gradually planted crops with his classmates and learned to cherish food. During the learning process, he also learned how to work as a team so that they can all achieve success in cooperation. Food farming education has become a nutrient for children to grow up.

[The work “Zanliang Academy in Our Dreamland” by the team of the Department of Information and Communication, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, won the Excellence Award of the Food Education Creative Microfilm Category in the 17th Yushiu Cup Creative Awards: team students Jia-Jun Wang (left) and Rou-Fen Wang (right).]

In this competition, Jia-Jun Wang also won a selection award and an excellence award; the microfilms were all produced on the spot at the Sangshi Elementary School in Taichung City. The microfilm “Growth of Our Dreamland” was performed by the teachers and students of the school, while the documentary microfilm “Zanliang Academy in Our Dreamland” recorded the achievements of the teachers and students at Shiguo primary school in the food farming course and working in the field.

[The work “A Wheat Road toward Growth” by the team of the Department of Information and Communication, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, won the Excellence Award of the Food Education Creative Microfilm Category in the 17th Yushiu Cup Creative Awards: team advisor Prof. Dan-Ching Liang (middle) and her students (from left to right) Jian-Yu Lin, Guan-Ming Huang, Yu-Sheng Liao, Jia-Rong Tsai, Hao-Wei Zhang, and Chen-Feng Ruan.]

The other three award-winning works were filmed on-site in Madou Elementary School in Tainan City and Fukuo Kindergarten in Chiayi City; the documentary microfilm of "Wheat Seedling" was interviewed by Jun-Da Zhu and Jia-Jun Wang to record the story of the teachers and students of Madou Elementary School in Tainan City about their wheat planting. Two other feature microfilms also won the Excellence Awards. The theme of the story of "A Wheat Road to Growth" is based on the students and teachers of Madou Elementary School, produced by Jian-Yu Lin, Guan-Ming Huang, Yu-Sheng Liao, Jia-Rong Tsai, Hao-Wei Zhang, and Chen-Feng Ruan. Another winner of Excellence Award was "Grow Up Together," which was shot by Jia-Shuan You, Pin-Chi Chen, and Shin-Yu Ho.

[The work “Wheat Seedling” by the team of the Department of Information and Communication, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, won the Excellence Award of the Food Education Creative Microfilm Category in the 17th Yushiu Cup Creative Awards: team students to Jun-Da Zhu (right) and Jia-Jun Wang (left).]

The advisor, Prof. Dan-Ching Liang said that the students of the winning team had worked on their shooting job for more than three months, and they must record how teachers implemented and promoted "food farming education." Shooting is a long "step by step" process; the team could only devote itself to the process. Only when a gardener devotes his heart can he have the heart to discover something. The most moving part of the shooting process is nothing more than the process of the small gardeners’ learning how to observe, sow, fertilize, pull weeds, water, and bear fruit for the small garden he is responsible for. Chairman Bing-Zhang Chen said that the student team also implemented the spirit of "learning from doing." Through the competitions, they have learned "how to tell moving stories with images." During the filming, the student teams captured a lot of teacher-student interactions, precious pictures of small gardeners and land, and through the stories of teachers and students of each school, the interactive picture of people and land was added to the boring planting process, which eventually moved all the judges.

[The work “Growing Up Together” by the team of the Department of Information and Communication, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, won the Silver Award of the Food Education Creative Microfilm Category in the 17th Yushiu Cup Creative Awards: team advisor Prof. Dan-Ching Liang (middle) and her students Jia-Shuan You (1st left), Pin-Chi Chen (2nd right), and Shin-Yu Hong (1st right).]

As President Deng-maw Lu said, food and agriculture are essentially two sides of one body, and people have always been inseparable from the land. He has always encouraged people to be close to the land, and he likes to cultivate in the fields. It was great that the student teams worked on recording and won their awards with microfilm works based on the theme of "food farming education." They fully implemented the spirit of "learning from doing," which has been encouraged by the school, cultivating professional practical skills through competitions and winning glory for the school.

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