Boosting student’s motivation and community understanding through students-designed board games

This project is conducted with eleven Form Five students from S.K.H St. Mary's Church Mok Hing Yiu College. It is a secondary school located in Sham Shui Po. The purpose of this project is to enhance the students’ understanding by establishing community-based learning. From September 2023 to January 2024, we started planning the project design. In February 2024, we began implementing this project, where we actively visited the secondary school students. We designed 10 lessons to create a boardgame about Sham Shui Po with secondary school students by referring to the mechanism of the game “Machi Koro”. We designed diversified activities in order to attract them to participate, including a Canva workshop to teach students how to use the application to design the cards. We held a photo shooting workshop to teach the students how to capture a photo they will use in the boardgame. And we also had a video editing workshop to teach the students editing skills and help them finish the promotion and tutorial videos. After the production of the boardgame, on 3rd July 2024, we brought the secondary school students to Q.E.S. Old Students' Association Branch Primary School to introduce the boardgame to the primary school students. It is a primary school located in Tin Shui Wai. The secondary school students held a session introducing the board game and leading the primary school students to play. This project has successfully increased the secondary school students' understanding of Sham Shui Po. And help them gain practical skills, such as video editing, photo shooting, and boardgame designing. Moreover, co-creating this board game also allows people from other communities to understand Sham Shui Po. This project contributes to the community by allowing secondary school students to understand the community they are living in through different activities