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  1. Link to our CyberFair 99 Entry
  2. Link to our Project Entry
  3. Link to our School Home Page
  4. Date of Project: March 31, 1999
  5. School: Chung Hsin Vocational Senior High School

    6. District: Hsin Feng
    City: Hsinchu, Taiwan

  6. Teachers or Classes: Project Manager: Heather Su
  7. How many students worked on this project? 25 students
  8. Their ages were: 16-18 years of age
  9. Project Contact Email: Heather@chvs.hcc.edu.tw

  1. We entered our Web site in CyberFair Category:
    Category 5: Local Attractions (Natural and Man-Made)

  2. Description of "Our Community"

    3. In the past Hsinchu was known as Chu-chien. ‘Chien’ is pronounced in the same way as another character that means ‘seashore’; this word was chosen because the native inhabitants of Hsinchu, the Dokas Clan, a branch of the aboriginal Pingpu Tribe, conducted their activities in an area by the seashore.

    In 1956, National Tsing Hua University was relocated in Hsinchu. In 1958, National Chiao Tung University established the Institute of Electronics in Taipei, with its main campus in Hsinchu; it was created for the purpose of fostering talented leaders in the field of electronics, in order to assist the government in its endeavors. Hsinchu Science Park was established in 1980. In 1986, Lee Yuan-Tseh, a native of Hsinchu, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

    Due to the creation of its science park and the prominence of its Nobel Laureate, Hsinchu has become more well-known in recent years. As we survey its past and think of its future, we see that Hsinchu is rich in human resources and scientific capabilities; surely Hsinchu will become a beautiful city, steeped in history, and at the same time in full step with the modern world. However, this community is abundant with lots of cultural heritage. We will have a further exploration on that. Join us for the cultural tour!

  3. Summary of Our Project

    4. Our main focus was on the cultural heritage of Hsinchu. Such was our main goal to achieve and we collected the data accordingly. In our homepage we included The Chin Shih’s Residence, Chinkuangfu (Chin’ means government; ‘Kuang’ Kuangtung Province; and ‘Fu’ Fukien Province), The Hsinchu Confucian Temple, Pengfeng Tea (Oriental Beauty Tea), The Great Civic Theater, Huko Old Street, Heavenly Mercy Temple, to name only a few. We tried to put them on the homepage without losing the authenticity. We want to impress our net visitors with a virtual experience.

  4. Our Internet Access
    We Mainly log on to the internet through the Taiwan Academic Network(TAnet),which is the Internet Service Providers(ISP) founded by Ministry of Education. Our school provides T1(1.54M) connection to TAnet.
  1. Problems We Had To Overcome

    2. The successful communication between our fellow classmates was what we found the most important problem for us to overcome. To build consensus and thus came out with the result, we would have to keep on exchanging each other's opinion. Data collection was also the key point. We had to filtered out every possible clues which took us lots of time. Also, the weather was an unpredictable factor for our outdoor interview. Meanwhile, the paper work needed to apply for the visit to certain organization hindered us from getting more insight. Generally speaking, the "human" factor played an important role in our project and we finally made it.

  2. Our Project Sound Bite
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  1. How did your activities and research for this International School CyberFair project support your required coursework and curriculum requirements?

    2. The ability to collect data available and thus transform them into information for our reference is always the prerequisite for being a "college-student-to-be", which is a must pursued by Taiwan's youngsters. The history-oriented topic helps us make further research on the tradition and culture of our community with the practice of our history background. Moreover, the homepage designing, the high quality photographing and the hardware operating(scanner, digital camera and tape-recorder) keep us on the main track of advertising design which is our major in senior high.

  2. What information tools and technologies did you use to complete your CyberFair project?

    3. Three main categories of information tool are involved to facilitate our project: computational hardwares, softwares, and reference books.

Firstly, we take advantage of the technological hardwares such as telephones, tape recorder, digital cameras, and scanners. We make oral interviews with the help of telephone when the physical distance is beyond our reach. When the interviewee is available in person, we tape-record the dialogue. Also, the digital cameras help us maintain first-hand photo quality when the digital pictures are pasted on the homepage. Sometimes, the scanner is used to photocopy the already printed data so that we can transfer the paper pictures into digital ones for further use.

Secondly, the softwares we adopt include: Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Outlook 98, Front Page 98, Internet Explorer Version 4, Netscape Navigator 4, and Outlook Express 98. The digital pictures need re-processing when we want to make some adjustment for better visual effect with the use of Photoshop. The Microsoft Outlook98 is our school's main e-mail system and we sometimes use Outlook Express to exchange our information after class. Furthermore, the internet browser Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator are among the most frequent uses during our project. Front Page 98 is the top priority for our homepage editing, with which we spend lots of time maintaining out project outcome.

The reference books we use are mainly borrowed from Hsinchu Cultural Center. We have study groups to collect any possible data we might use through the research because sometimes the cross-reference is needed to double-check the result we found.

  1. In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your CyberFair project both on-line and in person.

It is our great belief that practice makes perfect. At first we were not very sure about what to do when facing strangers that we might encounter when collecting our data. But as our belief goes, we would have to practice, practice, and practice. Our project manager equipped us with confidence before we went out for the interview and we tried to managed it.

Fortunately, we didn't encountered much difficulty, especially when interviewing people. A enthusiastic grandma who we met on the Huko old street clearly described and story-told the once hustle-bustle traffic and crowd on the street with detail. And another old grandpa of nearly one hundred years of age spoke with us on the transformation of the old buildings there.

Then, on the campus fair of National Tsin Hwa University we were lucky to meet and interview the principal of the university Prof. Liu Chung Laung who gave us warm welcome and kindly accepted our interview, which is very much impressive to us.

  1. What has been the impact of your project on your community?

    2. Most of us were not familiar with what we had in this community before the project and we think the same condition applies to the community residents as well. Gradually, with the ongoing exploration toward the cultural heritage, we had for the first time a clear view and retrospection to our society. It was such an inspiration and we even deeply touched by what we had found. With the set-up of homepage on the internet, we make known to the world what we have and what we have done. As for us, the project functions as the exhibition of our efforts, as the bulletin board to our community and to the world and, most importantly, it serves as an educating tool to make us cherish what we have around us and learn to respect them.

  1. How did your project involve other members of your community as helpers and volunteers?

    2. The Environmental Protection Division (EPD) of Ministry of Education gave us a lot of information on focusing our topic, helped translate many documents we found on the net, provided rich experience in teamwork and facilitated our further contacts with other organizations like American Resource Center (ARC) and columnist Miss Hsing.

  1. Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises

    2. Because of this project, we experienced lots amazing and interesting events (including accidents).

First, when we visited the Great Civic Theater, an antique building, it was then being re-furnished for maintenance and it was all blocked by high wall. We could not but choose to climb over the wall for a better view to find that a wild and fierce-looking dog was waiting there… You know the result, don't you.

Secondly, the rainy days just hung on and hung on and we found no sunlight to take better pictures. One day, it turned sunny suddenly and we rushed to every possible scenery spots to take the photos. Then, to our surprise, we, at last, found that the film wasn't in. We took "empty" photos for the whole day!

Thirdly, the communication between our fellow classmates and the teamwork to achieve our goal took us a lot of time to have consensus. We knew that we would have to struggle through them and we made it.

Through what we had experienced during the project, we truly learned to tolerate for different opinions, to argue for the truth, to communicate with each other, and, most important of all, to build friendships.