Yongchun Promotes STEAM Education: A Technology Exploration Trip to Chiayi
On November 29, 2024, Taipei Municipal Yongchun Senior High School’s 3A Emerging Technology Center and Jing-Yeu International jointly organized a visit to the cultural technology experience hall at Chiayi’s cultural innovation hub. Teachers experienced how technology can support education and inspire new approaches to teaching. In a rapidly changing technological era, education does more than transmit knowledge: it encourages innovation and critical thinking. Guided by this belief, Yongchun’s Emerging Technology Development Center actively promotes STEAM education to strengthen teachers’ professional capabilities and teaching innovation.
Chiayi Wucang Cultural Technology Experience Hall: Where Culture Meets Technology
The first stop was the Chiayi Wucang Cultural Technology Experience Hall. Combining 3D projection and digital interactive installations, it integrates technology into cultural education and demonstrates applications across different fields. Immersive experiences helped teachers understand how technology can make heritage transmission and education more interactive, prompting ideas for using digital tools to make lessons more engaging and effective.
As Chiayi’s first entrepreneurship hub focused on cultural technology, the Wucang facility combines 5G, AI and cultural industries to nurture technological innovation. Its facilities include startup co-creation spaces, a studio, meeting rooms and exhibition areas, supporting entrepreneurial teams and the development of cultural technology.
How Can Technology Drive Cultural Innovation?
Chiayi County has rich geographical and cultural resources. During the visit, the guide explained that the Wucang cultural technology innovation hub helps people experience how modern technology can connect with traditional culture and reinterpret customs. For example, in November of the previous year, Xingang Fengtian Temple used 3D projection during a celebration of Mazu’s birthday to bring the Tiger Lord to life in the temple courtyard. Interactive experiences involving the Tiger Lord and lucky coins, along with digital blessing lamps, attracted many young participants.
A mobile interactive game with the 3D Tiger Lord lets teachers upload amusing selfies and photographs. Teachers upload selfies and photographs to the mobile game as the 3D Tiger Lord appears and interacts.
Other temples in Chiayi are also adopting technology. Puzi Peitian Temple uses AR to digitize its peony-based fertility blessing ritual, enabling online divination and interactive AR coloring that adds a playful dimension to traditional beliefs. During its cultural festival, Minxiong’s Dashiye Temple introduced mixed-reality games to deepen participants’ understanding of the rituals, along with 3D water-lantern blessings that make the transmission of faith more tangible and vivid. Wucang provides an important setting for this innovation. Its VR games draw on Tiger Lord culture and traditional ghost-fighting rituals, allowing visitors to participate and better understand the symbolism of Taiwanese folk beliefs.
A guide explains how the Eight Generals tradition is combined with VR. Teachers try the Eight Generals ghost-fighting VR experience. An Eight Generals VR video jointly presented by PAGUI and Chiayi’s cultural innovation hub.
Teachers also tried applications such as VR simulations of Chiayi’s astronomical culture and temple history, making learning more vivid. VR and AR offer new ways to experience culture and history, bringing heritage closer to contemporary life and encouraging younger people to participate in preservation, so technology and tradition can thrive together.
Teachers explore Chiayi County’s geographical and cultural resources through AR and VR. Teachers explore Chiayi County’s geographical and cultural resources through AR and VR. Teachers explore Chiayi County’s geographical and cultural resources through AR and VR.
Beihui Space Education Hall: Exploring the Possibilities of the Universe
One of the day’s most exciting stops was Beihui Space Education Hall. Centered on space exploration, it offers interactive displays such as rocket-launch simulations, astronaut-life experiences and interstellar navigation systems. For students already learning about low-Earth-orbit satellites, it is an inspiring learning environment.
Arriving at Beihui Space Education Hall! The 30th-anniversary special exhibition at Beihui Space Education Hall. The impressive launch rocket for FORMOSAT-5.
One particularly engaging exhibition area focused on satellite applications and Earth observation. Real-time data and image analysis show how satellites support weather forecasting, environmental monitoring and disaster warnings. The hall also offers a Future Astronaut Training Camp designed for young people. Teachers joined simulated space missions and explored recent space technology, experiencing astronaut-style challenges that sparked interest in aerospace and highlighted the importance of space exploration for society’s future.
Teachers listen carefully to the guide’s explanation of satellite imagery. Teachers listen carefully to the guide’s explanation of satellite imagery. Emerging Technology Director Tseng Ching-Liang tries a simulated space mission.
Yongchun Promotes STEAM Education: A Technology Exploration Trip to Chiayi
The visit connected closely with STEAM education: teachers experienced technology and education together while reflecting on innovative teaching. STEAM integrates Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics, and both destinations demonstrate that approach in practice.
Teachers explore Chiayi County’s geographical and cultural resources through AR and VR. Teachers and children explore Chiayi County’s geographical and cultural resources through AR and VR.
At Wucang, teachers experienced how digital technology connects culture with education. Its 3D projections, VR and AR inspired classroom applications and exploration of ways to increase students’ interest in science, art and the humanities. Such experiences help teachers create more interactive and engaging learning environments and improve learning outcomes.
The guide explains the launch rocket for FORMOSAT-5.
At Beihui Space Education Hall, teachers experienced applications of low-Earth-orbit satellites and space technology. They deepened their understanding of science and technology and considered how to integrate these advances with classroom learning. Satellite-data analysis and rocket-launch simulations, for example, can help students understand everyday applications of science and technology and inspire interest in future innovation.
From Classroom to Field Experience: Putting Technology Education into Practice
Through the Chiayi visit, Yongchun’s emerging technology teachers deepened their understanding of low-Earth-orbit satellite applications and how to make STEAM principles tangible in a learning environment that encourages innovation and practical skills. On the return journey, they exchanged reflections, perspectives and insights, discussing how to bring what they had seen into their lessons and strengthen the connection between technology and education.
From Wucang to Beihui Space Education Hall, each stop demonstrated technology’s role in local development and educational innovation. Yongchun’s Emerging Technology Development Center will continue promoting STEAM, exploring innovative teaching approaches and making technology an important contributor to educational development.
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