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18 Interview with Principal

Over the years, Principal Au Yeung Wai College is renting the new school premises
Yin and the founders hoped that the school as a tenant, so we need to pay rent to the
has more space to provide students with a Government, and the planning and use of the
better learning environment to meet the school premises are regulated." After careful
everchanging learning needs. In July 2012, a deliberation, the founders of CCKLN and
plot of land to build a school in the Kai Tak the IMC of the school all agreed that giving
Development Area was available and schools students an ideal learning environment is the
that were interested had to submit a full most important! The principal is very grateful
proposal within a month. Ms. Au Yeung said, to all the founders for their selfless dedication
"This is our dream." She believed that the that gave rise to the new school premises.
opportunity came at the right time so we
bravely put in an application. It was exactly During the construction of the new school
the spirit of the "Big Dream" that led Cognitio campus, teachers, school administrators,
College (Kowloon) to the construction of the and alumni worked together closely. They
new school premises here in Kai Tak. had many meetings with the Architectural
Services Department, the Education Bureau,
When the application opened, it was in and architects to design a school building that
the beginning of the summer holidays and can match future educational development.
the supervisor Mr. Poon Shun Kwok was out School administrators and alumni supported
of town at the time. However, Ms. Au Yeung the school either with money or efforts to
decided to go for it. With the help of the then help. For example, during repossession, the
new Vice-principal Mr. Cheung Chan Piu, they alumni, architects, and surveyors came to
completed the 20-page proposal just in time. teach our teachers the skills of repossession.
Ms. Au Yeung wrote the proposal with a view On that day, the principal, teachers, and two
to pursue a better future for Cognitio College. alumni completed the entire repossession
The final proposal was approved and Cognitio process. Two days before the start of the
College (Kowloon) successfully secured the school year in 2019, the lecture hall and all
plot of land for the new school campus, but items on the ground floor were flooded by a
on one condition - gifting the old school heavy rainstorm. The office staff and janitors
premises to the Government. looked everywhere for cleaning supplies during
the rainstorm, to get the campus ready for
Principal Au Yeung pointed out, "if we the first day of school. Ms Au Yeung stresses
want a new school campus, we have to give that when we enjoy the facilities of the school,
the land on which the old school premises please cherish what we have now. These are
resided in San Po Kong to the Government. the achievements and the efforts of a lot of
That piece of land belongs to the founders of people. In the future, she hopes we would give
the College. However, this is not all. "After back to the school and the community.
surrendering the old school premises, the

Collective efforts of a Dream Come True