The Environmental Protection Department of the Executive Yuan held the "Let's Get Close to and Stay with the Green Mountains" Competition. A few days ago, workshops and awards were held. The creative teams of the Department of Information and Communication and the Department of Business Administration, STUST, won the Special Gold Award and Silver Medal. "Let's Get Close to and Stay with the Green Mountains" Competition promotes the concept of clean mountains, green mountains, and unmarked forests, allowing people to walk into the embrace of nature, understand the environmental conditions of Taiwan's mountains and forests as well as the problems of garbage pollution, and realize the importance of environmental protection and love the earth. The competition further promotes independent, sustainable clean-up operation, declaring that everyone in Taiwan needs to work together to protect the beautiful mountains and forests.

[The team from the Department of Information and Communication, STUST, won the Special Gold and Silver Medal in the "Let's Get Close to and Stay with the Green Mountains" Competition, held by the Environmental Protection Agency of the Executive Yuan: Jia-Rong Zheng, Special Commissioner of the Environmental Supervision Team of Environmental Protection Agency, the Executive Yuan (left 2nd); Team Advisor Dan-Ching Liang (left 1st); and the students of the creative team— Pin-Chi Chen, Yu-Chi Gu, Tsai-Pei Pan, Pei-Rong Yang, and Yu-Kun Hu.]

The micro-film work of the Department of Information and Communication, STUST, stood out among many other works. Dan-Ching Liang, the team advisor of the Department of Information and Communication, STUST, and the student creative team –Pin-Chi Chen, Yu-Chi Gu, Tsai-Pei Pan, Pei-Rong Yang, and Yu-Kun Hu—won the Special Gold Award (first prize). The work "Happy Forest Life, No Trace Left by You and I" focuses on the promotion of the “Traceless Mountain Forest Movement.” By interviewing advocates of environmental protection, their work points out the current problems caused by tourists in the mountains and forests. The advocates also share their mountain-friendly activities and experiences over the past years. At the same time their work comes with the hope to transform the awareness of maintaining the mountains and forests into practical actions, making people jointly maintain the environment between nature and human beings.

[Tsai-Pei Pan from the Department of Information and Communication, STUST, used a practical example of the "Seven Steps to Traceless Mountain and Forest Movement" to impress the audience. (The photo is taken from the award-winning work).]

Another student creative team of STUST won the silver medal, which was formed by Jia-Yu Tang, Ren-Yun Chang, Ching-Wen Yang, You-Fen Chen, Mei-Shuan Chen, and Yu-Shan Huang, under the guidance of Prof. Zi-Li Wang of the Department of Business Management. The entry "Do You Dare to Be with Me?" is a great response to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The best way for people to relieve their stress is to walk outdoors, approaching nature in the mountains and feeling the breath of the mountains. The purpose of this work is to let more people see the appearance of the mountain and appreciate its beauty, and then take a step further to fulfill their duty of protecting what they see and feel. When people walk into the forest, they can feel the breath of the mountain, experience the green world, and enjoy the touch of life.

[Students from the Department of Information and Communication, STUST, who won the Special Gold Award with their work "Let's Get Close to and Stay with the Green Mountains," were interviewing Ching-Yuan Huang, a mountain environmentalist.]

STUST Special Gold Award team leader Pin-Chi Chen expressed her gratitude to Mr. Ching-yuan Huang for accepting the interview patiently, sharing his experience of many years in the mountains, leading the team to a better understand of the mountains and forests, and thus making the team’s work much affirmed. This award not only lays a good foundation for their graduation production, but is also the key to the team's confidence. She was also very grateful to their advisor—Prof. Dan-Ching Liang of STUST for her guidance, under which their work could be better presented. The team members also displayed a great sense of solidarity in completing such a great work.

[In the Award Ceremony that Environmental Protection Department of the Executive Yuan held for its "Let's Get Close to and Stay with the Green Mountains" Competition. Jia-Rong Zheng, Special Commissioner of the Environmental Supervision Team of Environmental Protection Agency, the Executive Yuan, (1st from the right), presented the silver medal to Mei-Shuan Chen (1st from the left) and You-Fen Chen (left 2nd).]

Prof. Dan-Ching Liang, Advisor of the team that won the "Special Gold Award," said that under the digital convergence, students need to cultivate the practical ability and invincible resilience of diversified creation. Students not only can use the lively way of digital storytelling from the media to hone their planning and interview skills, train their writing skills and develop their media communication design and production skills, they but also can cultivate their integrated thinking. The competition was fierce, and most of the competition came from teams of departments related to recreation business. Students from the department of communication must have interdisciplinary learning ability, become half an expert in a short period of time, and manage the communication content. Through the screen, the concept of maintaining environmental resources and pursuing environmental sustainable development is successfully presented, and the micro-film work has also successfully attracted the audience, helping them get close to the mountains and forests and pay tribute to the mountains.

[The team from the Department of Information and Communication, STUST, won the Special Gold and Silver Medal in the "Let's Get Close to and Stay with the Green Mountains" Competition, held by the Environmental Protection Agency of the Executive Yuan(from left to right): Mei-Shuan Chen, Yu-Shan Huang, Ren-Yun Zhang, Jia-Yu Tang, Ching-Wen Yang, and You-Fen Chen]

Deng-Maw Lu, President of STUST, said that STUST allows students to learn to cultivate their interdisciplinary thinking and problem-solving skills through competitions, and to implement practical technical education and the application of what they have learned. This time, through the competition, the organizer made the concept of sustainable environmental management deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and also allowed the students to make great progress in technology, planning and expression. It is hoped that the student team will have more wonderful works in the future.

[A list of the winners of the “Let's Get Close to and Stay with the Green Mountains" Competition, held by the Environmental Protection Agency of the Executive Yuan.]