Seven Chinese-Speaking K12 Innovations Selected For The HundrED Spotlight on Employability

BEEP Lab - Design mentoring to spark creativity & Innovation for kids 快樂追築 from Singapore:

BEEP Lab is an education & training consultancy founded in Taiwan since 2015 and is now based in Singapore as a registered social enterprise. We aim to enrich and engage the minds of children, teenagers and educators through lens of architecture. Using design thinking to nurture one’s mastery in creativity, confidence, and collaboration so as to prepare them to be responsible users and designers.

City Wanderer- Wandering Challenge from Taiwan:

City Wanderer strives to inspire youth to discover, pursue their purpose through innovative education program, to find their passion and self-worth through persistent actions. Youth sign up in a team of 3, and over 3 weeks complete 30 missions to begin a journey of self-exploration and creating change. So far we have inspired 10,000 youth in 17 cities to complete over 35,000 missions!

Co-Publishing Project : Inspire Taiwan children from remote schools learning motivation from Taiwan:

Visual is a worldwide language. This project has already published two kinds of Visual composition books which total amount is 6,000 copies. We combined smartphones, the internet and social media. Children could take pictures by“Photography formula”and discussed with teachers by “Facebook” or“ Line” group without distance. These two books transferred different cultures of families to the Chinese World.

Drone-based Interdisciplinary Learning & Entrepreneurship Education from Hong Kong:

A Finnish curriculum framework was adopted to cultivate students’ transversal competences under the theme of drone technology in Hong Kong. Students applied what they learnt to design a drone-assisted water sampling system which would offer an effective means of water quality and pollution sources monitoring at a low cost.

FunMeiker-ArKIDecture Education to empower children to nurture the sense of aesthetics from Taiwan:

FunMeiker's educational approach is inspired by Architecture education for children. We aim to develop learning methodologies and approaches that is contextualised for Taiwan and the asia region, so as to promote interdisciplinary learning and nurture the sense of aesthetics. Our programs aims to facilitate children to develop the mindset of problem solving, life-long learning and adaptability.

MTA WORLD (Mondragon Team Academy) from Shanghai:

MTA is an international community of changemaker entrepreneurs by implementing an educational model adapted to the new way society is organized that encourages teampreneurship through experimentation. The learning model focuses on a Learning by Creating methodology, in which the students are not taught about entrepreneurship, but are given the tools and opportunities to set up their own ventures.

Teach For Taiwan from Taiwan:

TFT goes beyond conventional measures and offers a sustainable, systemic solution to educational inequity. We recruit high-potential, mission-driven individuals to commit to a full-time teaching fellowship in educationally disadvantaged primary schools for two years. After the 2-year fellowship, TFT supports alumni to continue to drive collective long-term change for educational equity.