Project Overview

1. Category：7. Environmental Awareness

2. Description of Our Community：

Our communcity is situated at Chiuchuang Village, a southeastern district of Taipei. Though it is near the most densely populated and prosperous city in Taiwan, this community once had been loathed and then gradually forgotten because it was overwhelmed by tons and tons of waste delivered from every corner of Taipei. In detail, the community used to have a big landfill in it where toxins emitted in the air, land, and water, from dawn to dusk. However, based on the concepts of environmental proection, the residents and authority used their wisdom and cooperation to transform this village to a green world ecological park, called Shanshuilu Eco-Park. The transformation of our community is like “the ugly duckling is no longer a clumsy, dark, and ungainly duck; it is a becaustiful swan.”

3. Summary of Our Project：

In recent years, global warming is getting worse and worse and people started paying great attention to environmental issues. Good management of natural resources and the environment has been regarded as fundamentally important. However, implementation of environmental legislation and other environmental measures seems not that strong in many developing and transitional countries like us. Even though we have the concept of environmental protection (EP), we do not really know the exact example around us. Therefore, our project aims to introduce an ecological park, Shanshuilu Eco-Park, built in a garbage-processing field and with power supply from farm biogas, to make people know “cooperation between residents and authorities can make a difference in the world.” With the aim in mind, we first surveyed and read a lot of literature about EP. Then, we did numerous times of field observation. Moreover, besides interviewing the related people and officials, we conducted a questionnaire survey. Apart from the introduction to the history and development of Shanshuilu Eco-Park in Chiuchuang, stated in our website, some findings are worth discussing. Many tourists who visited the community were attracted to the green, open environment. They enjoyed hanging aournd here with their children. The only thing they were not satisfied is transportation. Thus, we concluded that the implementation of EP is possible, but it needs to be more concerns. That is, the officials can do more marketing—making their effort familiar to the public such as improving the transportation to Shanshuilu Eco-Park, so that people will come here and appreciate EP.

4. Our Computer and Internet Access：

A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home:more than 50%

B. Number of workstations with Internet access in the classroom:more than 6

C. Connection speed used in the classroom:dedicated connection

D. Number of years our classroom has been connected to the Internet:more than 6

E. Additional comments concerning your computer and/or Internet access (Optional):

We feel satisfied living in the small but abundant island, Taiwan, because we have a wide array of digital, Internet-connected devices and applications, like computers, smallphones, tablets, and the likes at school (www.slhs.tp.edu.tw). We used synchronous and asynchronous communication with our team members and teachers. The Internet brings us closer together and its convenience is obviously awesome.

5. Problems We Had To Overcome：

We faced three problems while doing this probject. First, it was communication. Almost every time we encountered questions, we had different opinions. We needed to search more information and study more materials to convince our team members. Second, it was time. We are high school students in nigh school, so many of us had a part-time job to support our family or ourselves. It was not easy for us to find time to do discussion and field survey. Thanks to the Internet and weekends and holidays, we made it eventually. Third, it was the technical problem. We did not really have problems of the equipment, but we did in using it. We major in international trade, so we were inexperienced in website establishment and animation production. It took us plenty of time learning these skills from books and from teachers.

6. Our Project Sound Bite：

We appreciate for participating in doing the project because, besides gaining knowledge, we have more chances to know ourselves and our lands as well as knowing what we can do for the world.

7. How did your activities and research for this Cyberfair Project 　　support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?

We are students, majoring in international trade. In school, the computer knowledge that we have learned is limited; we learn basic concpets and operation of the computer. However, with the global awareness that we’ve established at school, we hope to advance ourselves not only in the computer techniques and knowledge but also explore the world via doing a project about the global issue. In addition, using the website we established, we aim to introduce the idea to the world, that is, a small, old community can really do something to the world. We believe this is what our education hopes us to learn. Therefore, in order to participate in this competition,we spent a lot of time learning more about computers, including setting up a website, using software and apps, and strengthening related knowledge. We found that the more computer literacy we acquire, the closer we get to the world.