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New facilities to nurture
tomorrow’s leaders

On top of these major capital projects, Training facilities will also be enhanced
several new facilities and infrastructural to nurture creative talent and facilitate
developments are in the pipeline. industry collaboration. The Centre of
Innovative Material and Technology, a
The establishment of STEM Education comprehensive material archive and
Centres continued to move ahead during interactive learning platform, has been
the year, with Centres now located on the built at Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI),
campuses of IVE (Tsing Yi and Chai Wan) along with the HKDI Fashion Archive
and Youth College (Kowloon Bay). All are housing around 1,500 fashion items
equipped with advanced facilities making sourced from around the world.
use of VR and AR technologies, providing
VTC students with simulated workplace
training and facilitating the exchange
of knowledge and expertise between
academics and industry practitioners. The
Centres will also play host to workshops
and competitions to strengthen motivation
among the younger generation to learn
STEM-related subjects.

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