Students swapped their casual wear to don suits and smart skirts in order to test their leadership skills by playing the role of new town executives. The exercise was one of the challenges Sha Tin students faced at a four-day training camp at the Chinese University of Hong Kong designed to develop leadership skills and promote community awareness. The Sha Tin Team Top Leadership Training Camp, organised by the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), featured students playing the role of housing officials, devising improvement projects for two public housing estates.
Participants adopted the perspectives of government officials and came up with proposals on how to improve two public housing estates in Sha Tin.
The students visited Hang On Estate and Wo Che Estate to get a better idea of how to improve the environment and facilities.
Their proposals described as creative and original, were presented in a professional manner with the students dressed in formal attire.
'For the younger participants, like the Form Three students, it was a completely new experience to dress in suits and ties and make a formal presentation,' said Francis Lai King-ngai, another camp organiser, who is also a seventh former at the Immaculate Heart of Mary College.
The 29 participants were recruited from the Chinese University and from Sha Tin schools including Immaculate Heart of Mary College, Pui Ying College, Buddhist Kok Kwong Secondary School, LST Young Ko Hsiao Lin Secondary School, Toi Shan Association College and Chiu Chow Association Secondary School.
