Students' Fun Learning of Chinese Medicinal Herbs — STEM Education
Organized by the Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong and funded by the Chinese Medicine Development Fund, the project "Students' Fun Learning of Chinese Medicinal Herbs — STEM Education" was successfully completed in 2025–2026. The one‑year project aimed to promote Chinese medicine culture among local secondary school students by integrating traditional Chinese medicine knowledge into school and community education, and to increase young people’s understanding of and interest in Chinese medicine.
The project covered three main areas:
Online lectures on Chinese medicinal herbs: Introduced thirty commonly used herbs and their clinical applications in Chinese medicine, and explained Hong Kong’s herbal materia standards;
Experimental workshops: Taught methods to distinguish easily confused herbal materials using physicochemical and microscopic identification techniques;
Inter‑school research projects and herbal identification competition: Student teams selected commonly encountered, easily confused herbal materials from the market as research topics and participated in an identification competition.
In the inter‑school research projects and herbal identification competition, students 梅嘉熒、吳恭茵及蘇欣希 from Shap Pat Heung Rural Committee Kung Yik She Secondary School stood out with their project on “Poria and Kudzu ” and won first place.
The successful implementation of this project was made possible by the generous support of the Chinese Medicine Development Fund and the active participation of the schools involved. The organizer expresses heartfelt thanks to all contributors.
List of participating secondary schools (in no particular order):
CUHKFAA Thomas Cheung Secondary School
Fung Kai No.1 Secondary School
HKSKH Bishop Hall Secondary School
Lok Sin Tong Ku Chiu Man Secondary School
Lok Sin Tong Leung Kau Kui College
Pui Ching Middle School
Shap Pat Heung Rural Committee Kung Yik She Secondary School
Sheng Kung Hui Tsoi Kung Po Secondary School
St. Francis' Canossian College
St. Joseph's Anglo-Chinese School
St. Stephen's Girls College
Yu Chun Keung Memorial College
March 30, 2026
