HKETA STEM Competition: Innovate for Future 2019
2020-01-17
Innovate for Future 2019 (IFF2019)
***IMPORTANT NEWS***
Our Award Ceremony & Tech Showcase@Industry Connect of IFF2019 will be at Hong Kong Science Park on 17 JAN 2020 (17:30 - 21:30)
Our top3 winners will receive award presentation by our industry guest as well as show up their project cases at Industry Connect Tech Showcase at Hong Kong Science Park in our HKETA annual dinner.
Our Pitch Day (16 Nov 2019) of IFF2019 has been re-scheduled to 4 Jan 2020 (Sat Morning)
Our Final Pitch & Demonstation Day of IFF2019 has successfully been completed on 4 Jan 2020 at Hong Kong Science Park. All the information and details of the winners have been announced and posted in our IFF website. Thanks for all industry supporters and students of secondary school joined our competition event. See you all again in our next IFF2020.
HKETA Youth’s STEM Club is organizing an annual STEM competition: “Innovate for Future” (IFF2019) on 16th Nov, this year. Innovate for Future is an open competition to inspire young secondary school students in Hong Kong to build products to solve real life problems through idea to prototype development. Our theme of this competition is “Society” – Smarter Living, Smarter Schools, and Smarter City. In this competition, students will demonstrate an innovative idea and build a product prototype to solve problems in the society. Competition will provide mentorship coaching and support during hardware and software prototype development before final pitch.
This competition is supported by our international partner, San Jose State University (SJSU) Silicon Valley Center for Global Studies (SVCGS). The final champion will have the opportunity to submit the project for a SJSU global program, such as Summer in Silicon Valley.
(a) Global STEM submission: Winner and final champion (if selected) will showcase their projects through SJSU global program.
(b) SJSU is also the home of Silicon Valley Innovation Challenge and Paseo Public Prototyping Challenge.
(c) Summer 2020 : Final champion to participate at a Silicon Valley innovation showcase through SJSU global program.
IFF2019 Advisory Committee (AC)
Mr Victor Choi, Chairman, HKETA
Mr Derek Lee, Youth Chairman, HKETA
Dr Alan Wong, Director of Silicon Valley Center for Global Studies, San Jose State University
Ms Novam Ng, Marketing Director of IngDan Technology
IFF2019 Organizing Committee (OC)
Ms Monica Leung, IFF2019 OC Chair, Youth Member, STEM Club Chairman, HKETA
OC Team Members (our Youth Members)
Mr Calvin Kam, Computer Science PhD Candidates, CUHK, Webmaster
Mr Benny Cheung, Student from HKU/EEE, Program & Workshop
Ms Rachel Lam, Student from HKUST/Biotech, Event & Logistics
Ms Emma Yeung, Student from HKU/Finance, Event & Logistics
Ms Yoyo Wong, Student from PolyU/School of Design, Graphic Designer
Ms Jennifier Leung, MC
Mr Trevor Chiu, Video Production
IFF2019 Important Dates
Information Day : 29 JUN, 2019 (10:30am - 12:00pm) - Completed
At LT15, City University of Hong Kong
Idea Generation Workshop : 13 JUL, 2019 (10:30am - 12:00pm) - Completed
At LT15, City University of Hong Kong
Training Workshop 1 : 3 AUG, 2019 (10:30am - 13:00pm) - Completed
(Content : Micro:bit, Sphero BOLT, cybersecurity)
At LT15, City University of Hong Kong
Training Workshop 2 : 21 SEP, 2019 (10:30am - 13:00pm) - Completed
(Content : Arduino)
At VTC STEM Centre, Kowloon Bay
Final Proposal Submission : 28 SEP, 2019 - Completed
Proposal to be submitted by idea video. Mentor panel will select the top 10 of submitted proposals and the top 5 teams will join the mentorship programme.
The result will be announced in our IFF2019 website.
Mentorship Programme : 12 OCT, 2019 (9:00 am - 11:00 am) - Completed
The top 5 school teams will join the mentorship service programme and lead by our Mentor Panel. Mentorship program will be conducted at Arrow Facility Lab at Hong Kong Science Park
Agenda
Arrow Open Lab tour visit and facility introduction
Top 5 school teams with students and teachers attend
Mentors and mentees meet up and introduction
Mentor program introduction and project discussion
Mentor Panel :
Mr Wiko Leung, Senior Application Engineer, Arrow Electronics
Ms Maria Li, Program Manager, Educator & Biologist, Makerbay
Dr Charles Cheung, PhD, Deep Learning Solution Architect/Data Scientist, Nvidia AI Technology Centre, Nvidia
Mr Mike Li, Co- Founder, Hong Kong Maker Club
Dr Johnny Kwong, Senior Project Officer, Vocational Training Council (VTC) STEM Education Centre
Final Pitch & Demonstration Day : 04 JAN, 2020 (9:15 am - 12:15 pm) - Completed
Judge Panel :
Dr Roy Law, Associate Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Dr Martin Choy, Lecturer, Dept of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University
Mr Theodoric Chan, Chief Commercial Officer, NTT Communications Asia
Mr Nelson Woo, Regional Sales Engineer Manager, North Asia of AXIS Communications
Award Ceremony & Showcase : 17 JAN, 2020
At HKETA Annual Dinner at Hong Kong Science & Technology Park (HKSTP)
Tech Showcase at HKETA with IndustryConnect HKSTP
Global STEM Submission for Champion at Silicon Valley : Summer 2020
Winner and final champion (if selected) will participate at a Silicon Valley innovation showcase through our international partner, San Jose State University (SJSU) Silicon Valley Center for Global Studies (SVCGS).
Please click the following event website for the competition event details and registration:
