School: Ren De Junior High School
    Tainan, Taiwan, Taiwan

5 students, ages 14 worked together to complete this CyberFair project on March 20, 2004. They have participated in CyberFair in the following year(s): 2003,2004

Classes and Teachers: Lin, LiFen ; Fei,CiYu

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Our School's Web Site: http://www.rdjh.tnc.edu.tw

1. Description of Our Community

Do you know there is a sculptor Jheng, Chun Syong in RenDe Country owing a lots of his works at schools in Tainan City and County, Kaohsiung, and Taichung？ In the gate, fence, and buildings, as the “Art Hall”, where we live everyday are his relieve sculptors, but we do not know who makes them? It is really “ridiculous”. According to on-line searching and telephone interviews, we are surprised that “Master Jheng” was born in YanDiZih of TaiZihCun, RenDe Country, Tainan County. In order to complete our innocent parts, we are willing to lead everyone to have art SPA in visual and mental banquet through series of activities in the Project.

2. Summary of Our Project

Life power and loves are shown by Jheng, ChunSyong’s works, especially intimate, grace of women, education emphasis on good virtues, intellectual attainment, good health, solidarity, and aesthetic taste, profiles of people, and image expression, to reflect his creation principle, “firmness in gentility, and gentility in firmness ”. He insists to make use of simplicity beauty of bronze to present inner part of life and explore to breaking through. All express power and aesthetics by ”SamTaiTsi” in prince temple, “So Toil of Mother” in Tainan Municipal Cultural Center, “Confucius” in City Hall, and “Pull net” in CiJin Coastal Park, Kaohsiung City. Here we like to pay our respects to Master with our website, and devote our sincere beautification to him.

3. Our Computer and Internet Access

A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home:21-50%

B. Number of workstations with Internet access in the classroom:more than 6

C. Connection speed used in the classroom:not sure

D. Number of years our classroom has been connected to the Internet:4-6

E. Additional comments concerning your computer and/or Internet access (Optional):

On campus ADSL system has been established for education and administration electronic application, as well as two NT Servers and one LINUX server used in WEB, DNS, MAIL, FTP services.

4. Problems We Had To Overcome

Mr. Jheng, ChunSyong created a lot of bronze sculpture works, and for those beginners like us, his ideology is uneasy to be understood. For a work, we used to see the superficial meaning, instead of deep essence, however, it is good that Mr. Jheng lead us to each one, and by his description all works become so lively and can show the beauty of bronze to us. Jheng, ChunSyong have an abundant number of works with strongly grass-rooted sense, as well as much unorganized data. For the Project, we spend more time and energies on data refilling and preparation, such a passionate and persistence challenge. After three months of restless lunch breaks and holidays, we can draw the outline for his art creation and establish frames and textures of website to present to the public. Also, through the Project we expect to share with Master’s contributions on arts in his first half life.

5. Our Project Sound Bite

From description of Mr. Jheng, only works of 'bronze' and other special materials can have the character of 'never eroded', even in outdoor space under destruction of rain and wind and time, still unchanged. It symbols our learning, profound basis to stand surrounding challenges.

6. How did your activities and research for this CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?

The 9-year curriculum alignment has its major axis of 'human and art' and affiliate focus on mental mines in 'natural subject', thus we introduce Mr. Jheng, ChunSyong’s bronze sculpture art into school education and invite him to school lecture about appreciation local sculptures.

1) What information tools & technologies did you used to complete your CyberFair project?

appliance contents ◎interview & phone Visit sculptors in person, and inquire on phone for several times ◎internet Collect information and communicate with web mates ◎book & report Search for professional and sculpture information, and concerns with relevant reports ◎tape recorder & digital recorder Record interview as files ◎digital camera and camera Produce CD photo database to facilitate image edition ◎scanner and printer Scan newspaper, photo, and interview reports of students ◎Notebook Photo and data editing during outdoor site survey ◎portable hard driver Save large amounts of data and figure files ◎computer software FrontPage2000、dreamweaver3.0、PhotoImpact7.0

2) In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your CyberFair project both on-line and in person.

First of all, we talk about our website Project with Mr. Wang, ChiuWan, student of Mr. Jheng, ChunSyong, on phone, and he promises to help the education program although not getting it. At 10 am on the same day, we are approved to outdoors survey by school, and Teacher Lin, LiFen and Teacher Fei,CiYu drive us to studio of Mr. Jheng, ChunSyong. Then, we have our dialogue about “beauty of sculpture” with Mr. Jheng, ChunSyong, and He, WunZe, our team leader, plays the role of speaker to contact with Mr. Jheng, decides our schedule and job contribution, including interviews, recording data preparation, outdoor survey, work diary, and website article writing, and calls for school administrative supports for the Project.

3) What has been the impact of your project on your community?

Mr. Jheng, ChunSyong who has his works all over campuses of southern Taiwan, is unfamiliar for faculties and students of RenDe Junior High School, as well as for those in National Tainan First Senior High School, and National Tainan Second Senior High School, and National HsinFeng Senior High School, and people in Tainan City and County and Kaohsiung City. However, by our website Project, art achievements of the “Son of RenDe” can be shared with school faculties and students and the general public of Southern Taiwan. Too surprised, the huge “spirit landmark” on the entrance of our school is made by his coarse, but powerful hands, and so are the relieve sculpture on our fences and art sculpture of 'Aesthetics' on the administration hall. Therefore, we make our minds to promote and introduce his devotion and provide some art fans at school with opportunity to explore magic things of bronze sculptures, as well as expectation multi-development of students instead of only studying, and inspiration of students’ aesthetic interests. Furthermore, the website promotion will facilitate sharing of 'Forever' works of the Master.

4) How did your project involve other members of your community as helpers and volunteers?

1.All data authorized by Mr. Jheng, Chun Syong. 2.Relief sculptures provided by Tainan Woman’s College of Art and Technology for our photo taking. 3.Relief sculptures provided by National Tainan First High School for our photo taking. 4.Relief sculptures provided by National Tainan Second High School for our photo taking. 5.Relief sculptures provided by HsinFeng Senior High School for our photo taking. 6.Relief sculptures provided by Hou Jia Junior High School for our photo taking. 7.Relief sculptures provided by JhangSing Elementary School for our photo taking. 8.Relief sculptures provided by DeNan Elementary School for our photo taking. 9.Large sculptures provided by Prince Temple of RenDe Country for our photo taking. 10.Sculptures provided by Tainan Municipal Cultural Center for our photo taking. 11.Sculptures provided by Tainan City Government for our photo taking. 12.Sculptures provided by Tainan Athletic Park for our photo taking. 13.Sculptures provided by CiJin Coastal Park, Kaohsiung City for our photo taking. 14.Teacher Chen, JhihPeng assist for photo taking. Works provided by teachers and students of our school. 15.Supports from our friends Liou, YanSi, Wu, YuTing, Wang, YiTing, Hong, SinWun, Gan, SiaoCi, and Hou, HueiJyun. 16.POWER Teacher Team: Teacher Lin, LiFen, Teacher Fei,CiYu, and Teacher Li, JhihFong, awarded by 17.Teaching Distinguish in First Year of our School, supported us with parts of award funds on expenses for website making and English translation. 18.Mr. Liang, JiaFong assists on fine art design and making for our website. 19.Teacher Yu, ChiaLing assists on the modification of English version of our website.

5) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional)

Real copper can stand fire refining. Bronze sculpture, is made as hollow, more efforts, thinner with more polished surface; as solid, inclining to make the cave and concave surface when boiling and unable for heat relieving during filling liquid bronze of 1400 degree high temperature. Therefore, it will need profound bases on sculpturing skills.

During interviews with Mr. Jheng, ChunSyong, we find his name card shows the bird of our County Treasure, Black-faced Spoonbill, composed by three streamline S, revealing the mind of a sculptor. The first S curve is his work 'Spring', the second one is sculpture, his favorite, and the third one is studio, his place. Three S combines to shape a “bird’ flying in the sky, free and unrestricted, representing creation of an artist.