The development of science and technology innovation is a major trend in the future. Coding seems to be a compulsory course for the younger generation.
Some organizations have held the Hong Kong Secondary School Student Challenge for five consecutive years to promote the integration of STEAM education into the middle school classroom.
The theme of this competition is "Innovative Future@Kowloon East". The participating students will visit Kowloon East first, and then they will be guided and conducted workshops by institutional business mentors, university student volunteers and teachers.
After having a preliminary understanding of Kowloon East, we can design a plan to improve the community.
The results of the competition have been released recently. Some winning student teams have designed an elderly life app for caring for the elderly, and some student teams have designed flyover display screens and specially designed automatic cleaning for public housing estate corridors to increase the accessibility of people with special needs. Robots, reducing the workload of cleaners, can also reduce the chance of disputes between neighbors over hygiene issues.
The Hong Kong Student Challenge 2022 is co-organized by Youth Achievement Hong Kong and JP Morgan Chase, and is supported by the Development Bureau's Kowloon East Office and HKUST's School of Education.
The theme of this year's competition is "Innovative Future @ Kowloon East". A total of 230 Secondary 2 to Secondary 3 students participated in the competition, forming groups of five to form 44 teams.
(Photo by Chen Weici)
The Hong Kong Student Challenge 2022 is co-organized by Youth Achievement Hong Kong and JP Morgan Chase, and is supported by the Development Bureau's Kowloon East Office and HKUST's School of Education.
The theme of this year's competition is "Innovative Future @ Kowloon East". A total of 230 Secondary 2 to Secondary 3 students participated in the competition, forming groups of five to form 44 teams.
Participating students will have a 7-month innovation learning activity. During the process, they will have regular meetings with business mentors, university student volunteers and teachers in different workshops, and will also visit Kowloon East for inspection.
The competition aims to enable students to use innovative technology to design community improvement solutions for Kowloon East, including urban planning, air quality, waste treatment and community relations, etc. A total of 138 social innovation projects were awarded.
The junior high school team develops a simple program for the elderly to encourage the elderly to travel
The winner of the competition was the Secondary 2 team from Chi Chi Middle School of the Church of Christ in China. They are the designers of the elderly life app - Outbound.
The student team said that the idea of the programming came from the elders at home who often do not know how to find their way when they go out, so they need to call to ask for directions.
Since it is difficult to grasp the position of the elderly during the call, it is difficult to teach them to find their destination.
By analyzing the data of Kowloon East, they found that the population aging in this area is also serious, and the elderly living alone lack community connection. Some of them do not know how to find their way, and they choose not to go out and stay at home to watch TV for a whole day.
In order to encourage the elderly to go out more and reconnect with the community, the student team pointed out that the Outbound interface is simple, just one button can connect users to different applications. Functions such as electronic map and information of nearby interest classes are integrated into one.
A major selling point of Outbound is that there will be notifications popping up with different encouraging words every day to accompany and care for the elderly.
The student team hopes that Outbound can facilitate the elderly to go out, party and relieve boredom, so as to increase their desire to go out.
Pokemon GO has become an optimized map reference interface for flyover equipment
The runner-up team came from YWCA Yau Zuorong Secondary School, which consisted of six secondary three boys and developed a flyover display screen that optimized flyover equipment.
During the interview, they seemed to be familiar with the male student team, but in fact they met for the first time in this competition, so they said that it was a big challenge in the initial teamwork, because it took time to get to know the abilities of each member, in order to be able to properly division of labor.
When the team visited Kowloon East, they found that the scale of the flyover network in the area was large, but it also caused confusion in the route, making it difficult to identify the road.
They also recalled that their teacher shared that when pushing a stroller, it was difficult to find ramps and lifts to reach their destination, which inspired them to design and optimize flyover equipment for people with special needs, such as the elderly, wheelchairs, crutches, people who push strollers and tourists who are not familiar with the road. To display the barrier-free facilities near the user and provide the best route suggestions and obstacle tips, so that the user does not spend time detours.
The student team revealed that the related design of the flyover route map was drawn with reference to the map interface of Pokemon GO.
The student team mentioned that at first they planned to create an app or put a QR code on the website for users to get relevant route information. Later, after discussing with the instructor, it was changed to a flyover display screen, and it was expected to be installed at the bridge head and bridge end of each flyover. .
The student team explained that because they realized that not everyone has a mobile phone and space to download programs, it is more practical to use the flyover display screen. Users only need to touch the screen at a prominent place on the flyover to find the route smoothly.
Small self-cleaning robot helps clean public areas on floors
The second runner-up was won by the Secondary 2 team from the Christian Church in China Kei Chi Secondary School.
The student team includes students from public housing and tenement buildings. They observed that the environment and cleanliness of housing estates will affect the relationship between neighbors, and the situation will be exacerbated during the epidemic. Therefore, they designed a small automatic cleaning robot "Mopping First" , collect small garbage in the public area of the floor, release air freshener and record the air quality of the floor.
They hope to build a healthy and comfortable living environment for the residents. The student team also found that the workload of the cleaners is heavy, and they spend a lot of time every day to keep the public areas of the estate clean. Therefore, they hope that the relevant design can reduce their workload.
Choi Cheuk-wai, Chief Executive Officer of Youth Achievement Hong Kong, said that the competition hopes to inspire secondary school students to understand the current state of technological development and to consider how to prepare for their future career choices.
In the competition, students can find out some of the "pain points" of the Kowloon East community through field visits, and design related improvement plans through observation. It is also an opportunity for students to communicate with various parties and care about the society.
Zhang Zhizhuo, managing director of JPMorgan Chase and head of the Asian listed derivatives sales department, said that in addition to the benefits of participating students, more than 100 JPMorgan Chase business mentors are also inspiring.
He believes that the participating students are very enthusiastic to complete the project to improve the community, and some contestants not only provide hard information, but also add caring elements.
The first innovation and technology exhibition revealed that more than 100 students invent mechanical gloves for stroke rehabilitation and the cost is less than 1,000 yuan. The male resident of the single dormitory is unemployed and has a long-term epidemic. The supplies were sent to volunteer and the social enterprise received more than 200 old school uniform designers Hand-made small things to give a second life Mother and daughter file social enterprise design barrier-free functional clothing The founder hopes that the disabled can dress with dignity
01 Community
