CoolThink@JC Hong Kong Mainland China Sister School Initiative

Promoting Innovative Collaboration in Computational Thinking and AI Education Between the Two Regions

The CoolThink@JC Hong Kong Mainland China Sister School Initiative, supported by CoolThink@JC and organized by The Centre for Information Technology in Education (CITE) under The Faculty of Education of University of Hong Kong and National Engineering Laboratory for Cyberlearning and Intelligent Technology under Beijing Normal University, officially launched in 2025.

This initiative aims to foster exchange and collaboration between Hong Kong and Mainland China in the fields of computational thinking, artificial intelligence, and STEM education. By pairing sister schools, hosting online classroom sharing sessions, and organizing a summer collaborative training camp and teacher exchange in Beijing for teachers and students, the initiative seeks to cultivate students’ computational thinking skills, promote educational innovation and practice, and establish long-term partnerships between schools in both regions to facilitate the sharing of educational resources and experience.

In April 2025, the initiative accepted the applications from 25 Hong Kong schools to be paired with sister schools in the Mainland. Between May and December, 8 online sharing sessions will be held, covering the theory and practice of computational thinking and AI education, pedagogical innovations and tool applications in STEM education, and case studies shared by outstanding teachers from both the Mainland and Hong Kong.

Furthermore, a week-long collaborative training camp and teacher exchange for teachers and students will be held at Beijing Normal University from July 14th to 18th. The event features an array of insightful activities, including group projects for students to design and develop an AI-related project and field visits for all participants to leading schools and technology enterprises in the Beijing area to gain insights into the educational and technological developments in the Mainland. For teachers, the organizers will invite top-tier educators to share outstanding showcases in AI and computational thinking education and will conduct teaching tools experiential workshop.