National Hsinchu Senior High School
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| Motto：Honesty, Wisdom, the Glorious Health and Perseverance | |
| School Type | national high school |
| Establishment | 1922 |
| Location | Hsinchu City, Taiwan, Republic of China |
| Address | No.36, Xue-Fu Rd., Hsinchu City, Taiwan |
| Enrollment | Male：2100/Female：120 |
| Principal | Zhang Zua-chin |
| School Area | 9.47 Hector |
National Hsinchu Senior High School (國立新竹高級中學) is a high school in Hsinchu City, Taiwan. Student enrollment averages around 2200. Along with the National Hsinchu First Girls' High School, the school is considered the top-ranked secondary school in the Hsinchu-Miaoli region. The school is best known for its enduring music and athletic tradition. Internationally, the school is known as the alma mater of the Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Yuan T. Lee.
Led by the prominent educator Xin Zhi-ping (辛志平), the school serves as a model for well-rounded education in Taiwan.
Although traditionally an all-boy institution, the school started admitting females into the music and language program since 1998. The school's main academic rival is National Experimental High School and National Hsinchu First Girls' High School.
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[edit] History
HCHS, orginallyCalled HsinChu County Hsinchu High School, was founded on April 1, 1922. After World War II in 1945, the school was renamed Taiwan Provincial Hsinchu High School. In July, 1968, after compulsory education was extended to nine years, the school was renamed Taiwan Provincial Hsinchu Senior High School, and on February 1, 2000, renamed National Hsinchu Senior High School.
After the restoration in 1945, HCHS was a six-year high school, with a 3year Junior and a 3 year Senior High division. However, the junior high division was suspended in 1957. In 1987, HCHS was directed to set up a math/science-gifted class, later in 1998 a music-gifted class and in 2004 a language-gifted class
[edit] Student activities
HCHS has been known as a school with a variety of clubs. More than 100 students' clubs offer students a wide range of extracurricular activities. Other activities such as school fair, winter and summer camps, concerts of all types and field both for trips are also held annually in HCHS the purpose of making teaching / learning more diversified and for helping students various interests and living skills. In addition, HCHS has been cooperating with other schools to host some inter-school activities.
Beyond that, HCHS holds a sports meet, a swimming contest, a marathon race of 5,600 meters and an interclass choir contest, in all of which every student is required to participate. Numerous brilliant graduates have been educated into well-rounded persons in this way.
The current student leader is Chieh B. Chien
[edit] Facilities
HCHS covers an area of 10 hectares, well eqripped with a students' activity center, gym, swimming pool, athletic field and several kinds of sport courts. Besides, in buildings for teaching, such as Science Building, Building of Arts and Crafts, and Resource Building, there are Science Laboratory, Home Economics Classroom, Life and Technology Laboratory, Art Classroom and Music Classroom, Computer Lab and Multi-Media Language Classroom. On the campus are also a male and a female dormitory to house those students living far away.
The Concery Hall in our Music Building is the best of all at the senior high schools in Taiwan. It is over th the public to rent as well. Our library, specially equipped with a shelf of local information, is also open to the public. The bookstore on campus in the basement of the library provides inexpensive books of high quality.
[edit] Achievement
Every year, our students participate in international science exhibitions and are constant winners in international Olympic Games for science.
The musical clubs such as the choir, the brass band, the harmonica club and the Chinese music club in our school have a long history. They attend national musical contests and win many prizes every year.
Our school is aimed to cultivate students into well-rounded youth. We encourage students to take part in arts, language, athletic activities and we are proud that our students always stand out in the contests and bring back a lot of trophies.
[edit] Faculty
- Xin Zhi-ping - Taiwanese educator and the school's principal (1945-1975); scholar in Three Principles of the People
- Su Sen-yong - Prominent Taiwanese music educator
[edit] Alumni
- Yuan T. Lee - The 1986 Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry. Lee has also been the President of the Academia Sinica of the Republic of China since 1994
- Hsu Hsin-liang - The former Chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party.
- Zheng Chou-yu - Taiwanese poet; Professor in East Asian Language & Culture at the Yale University
[edit] Trivia
Upon the award of Nobel Prize in 1986, Yuan T. Lee replicated the Nobel Prize medal and donated it to the school, due to his appreciation of influence the school had on him.
