Professor Hsu said, “the team used an activity where they go upstairs to turn on the lights and downstairs to turn off the lights to help the visitors understand the switch configuration used in circuits. By allowing students to design teaching aids for switching devices and explain the basic concepts of power distribution, the public can learn about safe and correct electricity use.”

The NPUST exhibit attracted a large number of parents and children looking to participate in the experience. It also received enthusiastic responses from the foreign envoys who participated in the event.

The Charity Carnival brought together more than 60 domestic enterprises from finance, technology, food, baking and other industries for cross-domain cooperation and sponsorship. This year, for the first time, the National Palace Museum and eight foreign envoys stationed in Taiwan participated in the exhibition. In the past two years, a total of 800 rural school children and 4,000 new residents and disadvantaged families visited the exhibition. As an active practitioner University Social Responsibility (USR), NPSUT regularly participates in activities designed to enhance community development, and continuously works to promote social well-being and create better conditions for mutual prosperity in Taiwan’s multi-ethnic integrated culture.

Hopes are that by conducting government, industry and academia cooperation, they will be able to cultivate local aerospace technology industry in Pingtung and bring science-based popular science education to more school campuses.

During the summer break, Professor Hudson Hsu of the NPUST Smart Mechatronics Bachelor Degree Program and Associate Professor Chia-Wei Hsu from the Air Force Aviation Academy worked together to carry out science popularization activity for the first time at a remote campus in Linbian, Pingtung. Students learned about the history of the Air Force, the mysteries of flight, and rocket propulsion. With 360-degree paper airplanes making and water rocket, the students build up their understandings of life science. The activities were designed to inspire aerospace ambitions among the children during their summer vacation while also emphasizing the importance of University Social Responsibility (USR).

With the cooperation of the Pingtung County Government, the 2024 Taiwan Science Popularization Train will be used to promote science-based education courses at local elementary, junior high, and high schools and activities will also be held at three railway stations in Pingtung County, including Pingtung City, Linbian and Fangliao. In the activities, focus is being given to the space technology and green materials being developed at the Pingtung Science Park.

With added support from the corporate elites affiliated with local Rotary Clubs, they will also promote talent cultivation in such fields as smart agriculture, drone applications, and robotics industries. Additionally, in order cultivation talent in Pingtung’s aerospace industry, Professor Hudson Hsu is cooperating with Director General Shu-Chen Chang of the Pingtung County Industrial Policy Council to organize a series of industry forums on aerospace and green materials technology. Through talent cultivation, trade exhibitions and other activities, hopes are to help industry in Pingtung County’s to advance to new levels and experience global integration.