The Charity Carnival is a large-scale charity event that was organized by the Foreign Trade Association and the Little Sappling Association to inspire diversified education for rural children. This year, it was held at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Hall for two consecutive days starting from August 3rd (Saturday). Professor Hudson Hsu of the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (NPUST) Smart Mechatronics Bachelor Degree Program led a group of students up to Taipei to participate in the exhibition under a theme of “Ohm’s Light of Wisdom”. At the charity event, the team from NPUST set up a “circuit wiring” teaching aid to promote basic circuit knowledge. The teaching aid was co-created by three students from the university, including Sheng-yao Lin, Pei-ju Liu, and Yu-Hsin Yeh under the guidance Mechanical Engineering Department Director Wu Shangli, General Research Center Teacher Yi-ling Chen, and Professor Hudson Hsu. The teaching aid helped students understand the basic principles of circuits, single-cut switches, double-cut switches, A B contacts and more. The charity event also attracted foreign envoys from St. Christopher and Nevis, Hungary, Oman, Turkey and other countries, helping facilitate diplomatic interaction, while demonstrating the allure of science.
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.
