NEWS
It's a wrap for ENGG4930E!
Our project course, ENGG4930E - Design for Global Health has finally come to a close!
This year, we have 3 main topics, namely:
This year, we have 3 main topics, namely:
- Health and STEM Education in Tea Plantation Communities in Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
- Food & feeding technologies, Gerontechnology in Hong Kong 🇭🇰
- Malaria prevention in refugee settlement in Sadon, Myanmar 🇲🇲
Health and STEM Education in Tea Plantation Communities in Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
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We are grateful to be able to work with the TEA Project, a children rights INGO. The dynamic duo of Denise and Hilda zeroed into the problem of poor recycling knowledge and poverty in the Hanthana area. In the end, a series of recycling workshops were held with the kids at the TEA Project center to empower them with recycling knowledge, so that they can identify, reduce and reuse plastic waste in their own neighbourhood.
This project is guided by Prof. Rhea Liem as the advisor. 
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Food & feeding technologies, Gerontechnology in Hong Kong 🇭🇰
Our student teams split into 2 sub teams! One team worked on texture modified foods (TMF) for elderly with dysphasia, and another on healthy pre-cooked meal packs for the young elderly. We are especially thankful for the Elderly Resource Center (ERC) and Speech Therapist Ms. Jenny Lai from the SAGE Bradbury Home for the Elderly for hosting our student teams and providing crucial feedback throughout the projects. A special hat tip for the ERC for organising their elderly volunteers for a workshop and taste-testing.!
The projects are guided by Prof. Marshal Liu as the advisor.
The projects are guided by Prof. Marshal Liu as the advisor.
Malaria prevention in refugee settlement in Sadon, Myanmar 🇲🇲
Our student team had the pleasure of working with the CEDAR Fund in Hong Kong and the Myanmar partner Fullmoon Family Foundation to make this project happen. To aid the refugee settlement in Sadon with their malaria problem, the team developed insect repellents and mosquito traps that could be easily made with materials locally sourced in Sadon, and then conducted workshops with the refugees in Sadon.
The project is guided by Dr. Vincent Li as the advisor.
The project is guided by Dr. Vincent Li as the advisor.
Trial & Better Class
In the midst of the 5th wave, we at SIGHT were thankful to have to opportunity to step beyond our usual stomping ground and work with Kowloon Sam Yuk Secondary School. Instead of applying Design Thinking to global heath issues, this time it was learning in general, helping students their to prototype learning experience. A special guest of 100 most fame appeared in the form of the whacky and amazing Wong Kar Wai, better known by his stage name 東方昇.
SIGHT Teams snatch Accolades at Competitions
The Softkeyboard project also went through the trials at the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Competition and took home the Merit Award. The project, which aims to assist students with myopathy to input mathematic symbols and equations quicker, is led by Gian del Mundo, Mashiat Lamisa and Gillian del Mundo.
The SIGHT MedEasy team has ventured into the Chun Wo Innovation Student Awards 2018 and took home the Silver Award as well as the Best Social Impact Award, credits go to team members Fernando García Albero, Mashiat Lamisa, Lee Ka Yan Christine, Chim Ho Yeung, Chan Wing Yu, Mao Yun-Wen and Leung Ziuwin.
The SIGHT MedEasy team has ventured into the Chun Wo Innovation Student Awards 2018 and took home the Silver Award as well as the Best Social Impact Award, credits go to team members Fernando García Albero, Mashiat Lamisa, Lee Ka Yan Christine, Chim Ho Yeung, Chan Wing Yu, Mao Yun-Wen and Leung Ziuwin.
SIGHT FYP Team Wins President's Cup Gold Award
Congratulations to the CSE-SIGHT FYP Team that took home the Gold Award at the 2017 HKUST President's Cup, with their project "Early Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) by Smartphone App". The team members are Laiman Evan Roberto, Stanza Tan Erez Pablo and Wijaya Reynaldi Octavianus, and the project is co-supervised by Prof. Pedro Sander (CSE) and Prof. Ying Chau. As with most SIGHT projects, this one has a long history and a long list of people to whom we owe our gratitude. First, our thanks to Helen Keller International (HKI) Indonesia, especially Dr. Satya, who really just started this project with us, and referred us to our current partner Gadjah Mada University. Our thanks also go to the student team that started this project, Felicia Agatha, Charlotte Chung, Wan Jia, Benjamin Lai; who were coached ably by our TA Sen Zhang.
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PRESS CONFERENCE FOR SIGHT SCHOLAR SCHEME
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SIGHT is in the news again! We presented our first SIGHT Scholar to 6 students to to let them work on their self-proposed healthcare projects in full time internship in Indonesia and Cambodia.
(The report is in Chinese.) For more information: http://www.ust.hk/…/hkust-students-receives-donation-solve…/ 
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EMRS TEAM WINS RICE 360 COMPETITION
Our eMRS Team won FIRST PRIZE in the 2016 Rice Undergraduate Global Health Technologies Design Competition in Houston, TX! Great work by our SIGHT Student Leaders, Kevin, Michelle Lee, Sandra Sobańska, Melody Chung and Nadiya Yudiana. We would be remiss to not mention that the whole eMRS (Electronic Health Record System) project is a long and continuous endeavor with different teams involved. The first team to identify and start this project consists of Stephen Ng, Sathish Raghuraman, Kale Tsang and Mandy, which was picked up by the capable hands of Lance Cheung, Alton Lee, Jenny Kang and Samson Chan, as well as the current SIGHT Student Leaders Kevin, Michelle Lee and Sandra Sobańska. This year the eMRS project is continued with the EasyMed (Electronic Health Record/EHR) team, with the CSE FYP coding team led by Louis Tsai, John Choi, Ricky Lo and Ron Ip, and the implementation team of Anastasia Chrysilla, Gracia Monica, Bonnie Park and Jonathan Yang. Along the way many faculty and staff advisers guided our teams along the way whom we are very grateful for, including Prof. Shanghai Song (ECE) and Prof. Frederick H. Lochovsky (ECE) when it all first started; Teaching Associate Peter Chung (CSE) that brought the eMRS to Cambodia; and Prof. Shing Chi Cheung heading the current coders for the EasyMed team! With SIGHT there is always the teaching team, under the helm of Prof. Ying Chau are Teaching Associate Malinda Abeynayake and Project Assistant Joel Yu, as well as past Teaching Associates Dr. Thilina Weerasinghe and Dr. Yuki Zhong. Last but not least, our gratitude to the One-2-One Charitable Trust, for making this project possible, successful and meaningful.
SIGHT in the papers
報章就視野無界的報導
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SIGHT is in the news again! After a successful press conference on Aug 31, 2015, we graced the pages of 3 newspapers the next day (Sept 1, 2015). We showcased SIGHT and how our 2 proud projects, the DDX and EMRS developed and were implemented in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
視野無界的記者會於八月三十一號成功舉行！有關報道翌日於三份報章見報。我們介紹了視野無界計畫以及我們暑假在柬埔寨金邊所交付的兩個項目。 Links to the reports／報導連結: http://paper.wenweipo.com/2015/09/01/ED1509010022.htm http://news.takungpao.com.hk/paper/q/2015/0901/3149650.html (中文報導。The report is in Chinese.) 
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