(19 January 2012 - Hong Kong) When Chinese New Year approaches, many youngsters are eager to have a real-life experience of "being a boss" in the Lunar New Year Fair. To provide students with hands-on experience in business entrepreneurship and teamwork, Tung Wah College (TWC) has bid a Lunar New Year fair stall at the Victoria Park for students to practise their business knowledge and demonstrate their creativity.Over 10 TWC students were selected as the stall operators after interviews in the "Lunar New Year Fair Business Model Project". As part of the support, TWC sponsored the full stall rental fee so that the students could have more funds to prepare their products for sale.
Since the purchase price of most CNY products such as flowers and confectionery is soaring due to the high inflation rate, TWC students have decided to unleash their creativity and make their own "ever-green" flowers made of plastic materials embellished with optical-fibers, candies and cloth dolls. The materials have made the flowers especially shimmering in the dark evening.Prof. Thomas Wong, President of TWC, joined the student team there yesterday. He participated in their stall promotion sales as a salesperson and attracted visitors to buy students' products.
Prof. Wong hoped that students could apply their knowledge into reality and gain valuable business experience and insights from this activity. "Students involved have to manage the whole business running, including raising fund, merchandizing, stall decoration and product promotion, etc. Although there may be different opinions along the process, we believe the real experience they came across, e.g. how to cope with each other, how to manage the time, how to persuade customers to buy products etc, will make them to be more mature," said Prof. Wong.The fair has started from January 17 until the early morning of January 23 at the Victoria Park, Causeway Bay.
For course enquiries:
Mr. Chris Ha
Manager
Community Relations and Partnership Development Office
Phone: 2926 5519
Email: [email protected]
Ms. Man Cheung
Executive Officer
Community Relations and Partnership Development Office
Phone: 2926 5516
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