Ronghao Yang杨 容 浩

From Familiar Water to a Fuller View of Place

The Spring City Eco-Memory Project

Every New Year's Eve, my father and I walk from Mingfucheng past Daming Lake and along the moat to Black Tiger Spring. For years, I mistook familiarity for understanding. Field ecology at Erhai Lake taught me that water carries evidence the eye cannot see, so I returned home to sample Black Tiger Spring, Daming Lake, and Xiaoxi Lake, then compared laboratory measurements with the memories of retired city builders and old-town residents.

From Erhai Fieldwork to the Laboratory Bench

At Erhai Lake in Yunnan, I learned to read water through aquatic insects, benthic samples, and measured parameters rather than appearance alone. I later contributed to a co-authored taxonomy paper, First Description of Adults of Cincticostella insolta, published in Open Journal of Ecology in December 2025. Back home, under the guidance of Prof. Xiaoqiang Cao and Dr. Chongbin Zhang at Shandong University of Science and Technology, I tested water from Black Tiger Spring, Daming Lake, and Xiaoxi Lake and prepared Ag/WO₃ photocatalytic materials, reaching 97.1% degradation of berberine at pH 11. The resulting first-author paper appeared in Shanxi Chemical Industry (2026, Issue 7).

Riverway Guardian — CTB National Conference

Small urban waterways accumulate trash that manual cleaning cannot reach. As team captain, I led the design of a riverway garbage-cleaning robot — a track-based transfer system with a scissors-type compression mechanism. Our research paper, poster, and interactive stand earned National Third Prize and the “Most Popular Project” award — one of only 10 among roughly 500 teams at the 2025–26 China Thinks Big National Conference.

This project translated concern about waste in small urban waterways into an engineering response, complementing my work on water quality and environmental communication.

Tambourine Charity Teaching at Zhujia Primary School

Through the “Tambourine” charity teaching project, I served as a lead instructor at Zhujia Primary School, designing lessons around Su Shi, Li Bai, Bai Juyi, and Jinan's spring culture. Across six sessions, the program reached more than 200 student attendances. I also helped train volunteer tutors, organize a Children's Day performance, and lead book donations for rural children.

The work taught me to turn research and cultural knowledge into questions, stories, and activities that younger students could make their own.

“Heart Growth” Charity Exchange at Wufengshan Junior High School

The “Heart Growth” (心成长) action links the real needs of rural students in Changqing District with people willing to help. Its eighth round took place at Wufengshan Junior High School on 13 March 2025, where ten students from three rural middle schools — Wufengshan, Shuangquan and Xiaoli — received meal-fee support of 1,000 yuan each, handed to their homeroom teachers so that the cost of lunch would stop being a household worry.

I attended as a student representative of the International Department of Shandong Experimental High School, together with the head of the department, Jingren Ji, and classmates. After the meal-fee handover the afternoon moved into the Wufengshan lecture hall for the study-experience exchange “Lighting the Study Beacon Together.” I was asked to speak on Chinese: how steady reading turns into writing, and which habits make classical Chinese easier to approach. My family and I also donated 150 books to the school’s students.

Charity of this kind is less a single donation than a form of continuity: books that stay on the shelves, and study habits that keep working after the visit ends.

Tambourine Public Programs at Shandong Book City

As an organizer and speaker in the Tambourine program, I led a “Roaming Through Poetry” session at the Shuxiang Tambourine Back-to-School Fun Station in August 2025. In early 2026, I also delivered two “Decoding the City of Springs” talks for more than 30 families, connecting classical poetry with Jinan's geology, spring formation, and photocatalytic water treatment.

These public programs gave me a city-based counterpart to rural teaching: the same commitment to make culture and environmental science accessible to families.

Science Docent — Shandong Science & Technology Museum

Since September 2024, I have contributed more than 200 volunteer hours as a science explainer at the Shandong Science & Technology Museum. I have supported 15+ thematic exhibitions and daily science-education activities, including “Qilu Scientific Spirit” and the interactive “Tree of Mathematics,” and received the 2025 Outstanding Science Volunteer Award.

Scaling the story: museum explaining turns one-to-one interviews into city-wide public science (Share).

Youth Cultural Ambassador — Yikang (est. 1862)

In 2026 I was named Youth Cultural Ambassador for the “Grape Soft Moon” pastry of Jinan Yikang — a bakery founded in 1862 whose craft is recognized as provincial intangible cultural heritage. I learned the craft hands-on, then promoted its history and cultural meaning through storytelling and media outreach, connecting a 160-year-old recipe with Jinan's living spring culture.

Heritage as a living classroom: the same spring-culture storytelling, carried by an older recipe (Share).

Mamma Mia! — Best Supporting Actor

The stage teaches what the lab cannot: presence. After two months of rehearsals, I performed a principal role in our school production of Mamma Mia! and received the Shandong Experimental High School Drama Festival's Best Supporting Actor award (2026).

The confidence behind every keynote, docent tour, and museum explanation elsewhere on this page.

A Painter's Eye, a Storyteller's Voice

Long before the laboratory, there was a paintbrush. I hold Gouache Grade 9 — the highest level of the China Academy of Art's graded examination (2022), a Gold Award at the “Hanmo Danqing Cup” Shandong Children's Painting & Calligraphy Competition (2016), and a Gold Award at the 3rd National Youth Art & Calligraphy Competition (2021). Weekends often meant Shandong Kuaishu storytelling classes — the same voice that now carries my charity classrooms and lectures.

The painter's eye shapes every exhibition panel I design; the storyteller's voice carries every talk on this page.

Selected Awards

Research & Published Writing