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2019-06-18
Congratulations to Our Youth’s STEM Club Chair, Monica Leung Featured in HKET and Skypost
Our HKETA Youth Member and STEM Club Chair, Ms Monica Leung and her technology startup, Blueinno Technology, launched STEAM education program for 3 years into the market. Her kids education program is well recognized by the market and is featured in HKET and Skypost on 17th June, 2019.
STEAM (Science, Technology, Electronics, Art, and Mathematic) is a new trend for technology education in the world nowadays, STEAM education inspires our next generation on the spirit of invention and innovation. It helps kids to enhance the logical thinking and critical analysis to catch up with the future technology world.
Blueinno Technology, a STEM Education Service Provider specialize in design, develop and deliver professional STEM learning programs by proven curriculum and technology. Monica founded Blueinno in 2016 to inspire students to learn STEM to develop problem solving skills through creative design thinking methodology. Her startup has taught over 3000 students from local primary schools, to international schools, to tertiary school.
Please CLICK HERE for the interview details.
2019-05-22
HKETA Youth's STEM Club Plan a STEM Competition in Hong Kong
HKETA Youth Subcommittee is proud to announce that our STEM Club has been well established in Jan this year in which the platform is developed and operated by a group of young members and professionals. We target to develop and deliver STEM activity, and workshop programs that could promote interest in STEM technology among young students and talents into the local community in Hong Kong. We also fully support a lot of STEM events and activities including technical workshops and STEM sharing programs in industry sectors, academic institutes and local universities in Hong Kong.
Our STEM Club will plan to organize an annual STEM competition: “Innovate for Future” 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) and her Silicon Valley Centre for Global Studies (SVCG). The final champion will have opportunity to connect to an international STEM submit and showcase the project under SJSU. With the partnership and support by SJSU, we encourage to explore join programs and collaboration in the areas of STEM training program, cyber-security and smart city applications.
“We are very exciting to organize this event in Hong Kong by our HKETA Youth team. This STEM competition may have good opportunity for our young students to understand better about our real life by using technology. Students can participate how to create new application or improve real life problem based on their innovative ideas.” Said Ms Monica Leung, our HKETA Youth Member, STEM Club Chair and Organizing Committee Chair of this STEM Competition. “Our STEM Club will continue to support STEM activity to local schools in Hong Kong and foster STEM technology in the local community.”
2019-04-18
STEM Workshop on Hour of Code at CityU Apps Lab
Our HKETA Executive Committee Member and STEM Club Chairman of Youth Sub-committee, Ms. Monica Leung was invited by CityU Apps Lab (CAL) to provide a STEM Workshop – “Introduction to Arduino” at Hour Of Code at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) on 7th April, 2019. ‘Hour of Code’ was first started by Code.org in US since 2013. CityU Apps Lab (CAL) is one of the leading organizations in Hong Kong to hold free workshops for young students and adults to learn to code.
This Arduino workshop aims to provide training for students and school teachers about engineering and coding with the Arduino hardware platform. In the long term, students will develop computational and problem-solving skills, and able to turn their ideas into real industry prototypes to solve real-life problems.
Our Youth’s STEM Club consist of a group of passionate and young professionals on STEM development and educational activity for local community. Our mission is to develop, organize and support STEM events and activities to industry, educational institutes, and universities to promote STEM in the market. Our Youth team will continue to support CityU Apps Lab (CAL) ‘s STEM activities in the coming future.
2019-03-28
STEM Course for Lingnan University
Our HKETA Executive Committee Member and also Youth Member, Monica Leung was invited to develop STEM Curriculum and Courses at Office of Service-Learning, Lingnan University for their program - "Soc-Tech Development Scheme: Arduino Workshops". Students from Faculty of Social Sciences and Faculty of Business learned advanced robotics and will apply the knowledge for making social innovation projects during the coming summer in Nepal, Cambodia, and Uganda.
2019-02-26
HKETA Established MoU with San Jose State University on International Collaboration in Education, Industry and Research
HKETA established a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with San José State University (SJSU) on 13th Feb, 2019 to foster international collaboration in education, industry, and research. This MOU is primary to establish the collaboration and support the career and professional development effort of our Youth and Startup subcommittee of HKETA through sharing SJSU’s academic programming and expertise in workforce development.
We will encourage to explore joint programs in research and development, technology workshops and seminars, and other educational activities. Such programs could promote interest in technology among young people in Hong Kong and provide continuing education on latest technology advances to working professionals. Program topics may include STEM training and span across a range of technologies, including but not limited to, VR/AR technology, IoT, cybersecurity and smart city applications.
We will organize educational and technology visits to expose young students and early career engineers with latest technology developments and to enhance their competitiveness in the technology field including visitation programs in Hong Kong and in Silicon Valley.
Our Youth team will continue to foster career development and professional mentoring of young talents and early career engineers and cultivate their potential as future entrepreneurs. We will explore potential train-the-trainer arrangement between the entrepreneurial communities in Hong Kong and in Silicon Valley.
2019-02-08
STEM Interview at RTHK
Our HKETA Youth Member, Monica Leung was invited to have an interview by RTHK for STEM focus and the podcast has been released on 8th Feb, 2019. Monica addressed her vision and experience with her startup, Blueinno Technology, a STEM Education Provider and shared with audiences her insight how to bring her STEM education and kids development in Hong Kong.
Monica is also our STEM Club Chair (which is established in Jan, 2019) under Youth & Startup sub-committee to develop and deliver STEM activites and workshps with industry partners such as VTC STEM education centres, local/overseas universities and other educational service providers for local students and teachers in Hong Kong.
Please CLICK HERE for this interview.
2019-01-28
Networking Practicum for School of Science Students at HKUST
HKETA Youth was invited by Career Centre of The Hong Kong of University of Science and Technology (HKUST) to make networking sharing with the School of Science students on 28th Jan, 2019 at HKUST. Around 50 undergraduate students from Life Science major joined this activity. Our Youth Chairman, Derek Lee shared his insight and make a lot of exploration on career opportunity and how was the influence and impact of the next generation for career development from life perspective.
2018-11-23
Seminar on Shatin IVE (沙田) 深度行暨伙伴傑青聚會
HKETA Youth was invited by Shatin IVE's engineering for joining a 深度行暨伙伴傑青聚會 seminar on 23rd Nov, 2018 and sharing career development and the importance of study engineering to the students.
The Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Shatin IVE) has launched a scheme called「IVE (沙田)深度行」with a series of events to be offered to industrial partners and schools for cross-disciplinary exchange and collaboration while learning about the latest industrial trend and manpower development of various industries. HKETA is invited to support this event and provide a industry sharing with our engineering/industry experience and career development for the students and how the importance of study engineering.
Our Youth Chairman, Derek Lee, was invited to this event, the kick-off of the Scheme「IVE (沙田)深度行 暨 伙伴傑青聚會」at Shatin IVE and make a sharing for his career and industry experience to the students as well as the principals/career masters of secondary schools.
Please CLICK HERE for the event details.
2018-07-25
Industrial Sharing for VTC STEM Summer Camp Students at Tsing Yi IVE
HKETA Youth was invited to support an industrial sharing for VTC STEM Summer Camp Students at Tsing Yi IVE on 25th July 2018. Over 40 secondary school students from F.1 to F.3 joined this sharing and open discussion. Our Youth Chairman, Derek Lee and a Youth member, Monica Leung who is specializing STEM education made a sharing to explore STEM concept, its engineering and technology related to education sector to the students. We also participated their drone practice and workshop at the end of event.
Please CLICK HERE for the event details.
2018-07-20
Industrial Visit to M800 for VTC STEM Summer Camp Students
HKETA Youth organized an industrial visit on 20th July 2018 to a VTC STEM summer camp team to M800, a telecom service provider in Hong Kong. Over 40 students/kids from different secondary schools to join and visit M800's data center, IT network platform and NOC (Network Operation Center). The students got well understanding how to make a call/SMS to worldwide, Internet network design, service application design and etc.
The main target of this visit for our secondary school students by introducing the technology and communication industry in Hong Kong, as well as sharing personal experience – life as an engineer to truly inspiring our kids.
Please CLICK HERE for the event details.
2018-04-18
MoU Signing Ceremony on Industry Partner Collaboration Scheme for VTC STEM Education Center
HKETA was invited by the Vocational Training Council (VTC) as one of industry partners on Industry Partner Collaboration Scheme for the VTC STEM Education Centre. We joined a MoU signing ceremony on STEM Education Day 2018 at Chai Wan IVE on 18th Apr, 2018.
Our HKETA Youth was actively to participate this event and setup a STEM project team to support this collaboration scheme to enhance students interests and overall understanding in the latest and innovative technology in Hong Kong. We also plan to deliver STEM for STEM seminars, AR/VR/AI workshops and etc for students/teachers in secondary schools with VTC STEM Education Centres.
Please CLICK HERE for the event details.
2018-02-21
Industry Sharing of Network Forum for Computer Engineering Undergraduate at HKUST
HKETA Youth was invited by Career Centre of The Hong Kong of University of Science and Technology (HKUST) to make an industry sharing and panel discussion for 200+ of year 2 Computer Engineering undergraduate students 21st Feb, 2018 at HKUST. The following major topics are discussed and shared by the industry guests.
1. Career interviewing skill
2. The latest industry trend and development
3. How our students of engineering do to tap into the job market
Our Youth Chairman, Derek Lee shared his industry experience on Hong Kong and Regional Asia job markets to students. He also shared how to prepare for engineering jobs and future career development.
2017-12-05
Career Mock-Interview Sessions for Under-Graduates Engineering Students for Tech Companies in Silicon Valley at HKUST
HKETA Youth was invited by Career Centre of The Hong Kong of University of Science and Technology (HKUST) to make few sessions of career mock-interview practicum with engineering under-graduates on 5th Dec, 2017 at HKUST.
Our Youth Chairman, Derek Lee made a few of mock-interview practicum sessions with event facilitator to share the insight and skill-set on the recruitment interview and internship program to tech companies in silicon valley.
2017-11-10
HKETA Youth Organized Youth Forum (Intellectual Property (IP) Patent in Commercialization Process)
HKETA Youth organized the Youth Forum (Networking Practicum in Small Talks Circles) on 10th Nov 2017, 6:30-9:00 pm in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The theme of this forum was “Prospective & Career Opportunity for Engineering in Hong Kong and Asia Pacific”. This Youth Forum was one of our Youth Sub-committee’s major activities this year. It was designed for UG/PG students and young alumni in local Universities for gathering and networking fellowship in our Youth platform.
In this forum, Dr. Teresa Law, Founder and Director, Akos Advanced Technology and also, our IP advisor of our Youth, as a speaker to a talk : "Intellectual Property (IP) Patent in Commercialization Process" to our students and shared with them to understand the importance of Intellectual Property (IP) rights and patents how to fit into the business model during the commercialization of the product or service to be invented.
Participants were primarily from UG/PG, young alumni and startups from PolyU. In the final sharing session, our industry guests, Alvin Lee, CEO, Armitage Technologies and Wilson Chan, Senior Manager, Strategy and Business Development, CISCO Systems, Asia Pacific and Japan Regions shared the challenges, opportunities, and prospects of career/startup development in Hong Kong and regional countries.
Please CLICK HERE for program rundown and event photo
2017-10-27
HKETA Youth Organized a Networking Dinner with the Theme of STEM Business, Technology and Service
HKETA Youth organized a Networking Dinner with the theme of “STEM Business, Technology and Service”. It was successfully held on 27th Oct, 2017 at Happiness Cuisine at Science Park.
Over 50 participants including guests, industry fellows and young students from local universities joined our dinner event. Our guests made a great talk nd discussion to explore the current STEM situation in Hong Kong and how STEM can be developed and integrated as a service oriented to education sector. Technology STEM company also presented our participants current STEM product trend and how is the future education model by STEM focus.
Three talks were presented by the following professionals from industry :
1. To Share on the business development/ marketing side, how STEM can be developed/ integrated as a service oriented to education sector, by Mr Terry Ng, Assistant Vice President, Marketing, Consumer Group, HKT
2. To Share STEM Product Trend, by Ms Monica Leung, Founder, Blueinno Technology Limited
3. To Share STEM & Robotics competition: The future education, by Mr. Roy Pang, General Manager, BDS Technology (HK) Limited
Please CLICK HERE for program rundown and event photo
2017-10-24
Industry Sharing of Network Practicum for Msc Engineering Research at HKUST
HKETA Youth was invited by Career Centre of The Hong Kong of University of Science and Technology (HKUST) to make an industry sharing for a group of 40 engineering research of MSc post-graduates in form of panel discussion and small talk circles on 24th Oct 2017 at HKUST. The following major topics are discussed and shared by the industry guests.
1. Sharing of graduate employment survery by facilitator
2. The hiring trend of next year
3. How our Msc students of engineering do to tap into the job market
4. Any industry trends worth sharing
Our Youth Chairman, Derek Lee shared his industry experience on Hong Kong and Regional Asia job markets to the postgraduate students. He also shared how to prepare for engineering jobs and future career development.
2017-04-20
HKIE Electronics Symposium 2017 at HKSTP
The Electronics Symposium 2017 was organized by The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE), Electronics Division (END) and supported by HKETA on 20th April 2017 at the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park (HKSTP). The theme of this symposium this year was “Future Cities = Smart Cities ?” and with 1 keynote, 7 talks, & 2 panel discussions were provided with the topics of interest including smart energy & transportation, IoT network, Connected Vehicles and etc.
Our HKETA Youth was actively participated in the Organizing Committee (OC) team of this event in the past years. Our Youth Chairman, Derek Lee was invited to be Vice Chairman of the OC team this year to support and organize the industry talks and programs for the symposium.
Please CLICK HERE for the event details
2017-02-10
Industry Sharing of Network Practicum for Engineering Research of Post-Graduates at HKUST
HKETA Youth was invited by Career Centre of The Hong Kong of University of Science and Technology (HKUST) to make an industry sharing for a group of 50 engineering research post-graduates (MSC from Engineering) in form of small talk circles on 10th Feb 2017 at HKUST.
Our Youth Chairman, Derek Lee shared his industry and startup experience on the entrepreneur process to the postgraduate students. He also shared with the students the opportunities and challenges in Hong Kong and other countries for the product commercialization process.
2016-12-20
HKETA Youth Organized Youth Forum (Entrepreneurial Learning for Tech Business)
HKETA Youth organized the Youth Forum (Networking Practicum in Small Talks Circles) on 20th Dec 2016, 6:30-9:00 pm in the Hong Kong Productive Council. The theme of this forum was “Entrepreneurial Learning for Tech Business”. This Youth Forum was one of our Youth Sub-committee’s major activities in a quarterly basis. It was designed for UG/PG students and young alumni in local Universities for gathering and networking fellowship in our Youth platform.
In this forum, Francis Wong, Executive Director of Sumitomo Corporation Equity Asia was invited as our guest speaker to present a talk "How Venture Capitalists Screen Deals" to our students and young professional how venture capitals invest the early stage of startup and key areas to pay attention. Participants could interacted with our speaker and sharing on current technology investment situation in the market, new global investment trends, the challenge and opportuntiy of technology start-ups in the global market and advice on business models and development for the young start-ups.
In summary, our talk covered :
1. The First Screening by Venture Capital
2. Typical Hurdles for Early Stage Deals
3. Common Mistakes by Some New Tech Entrepreneurs
4. Key Areas to Pay Attention : Management Team, Value Proposition, Market Potential
5. The Business Plan
Participants including our HKETA youth members, industry specialists and UG/PG from HKU, HKUST, CUHK and PolyU with different faculties of computer engineering, science, electronics engineering, and business) joined our forum. We had a lot of open and insight discussions under two round of small talks in our sharing sessions.
During the forum, our two industry partners of HKETA Youth : Arrow Asia Pac and Ingdan were invited to share their company, services and facilities to our students how they make the start-ups facility successful in the market from professional engineering service to marketing platform standpoints. They also shared a lot of case studies from engineering services platform , product design and service management to marketing promotion for the start-up growth.
Please CLICK HERE for event rundown
Please CLICK HERE for event photo
2016-11-01
Industry Sharing of Network Practicum for Engineering Reserach of Post-Graduates at HKUST
HKETA Youth was invited by Career Centre of The Hong Kong of University of Science and Technology (HKUST) to make a industry sharing for a group of 60 engineering reserach post-graduates with other 5 industry professionals in form of small talk circles on 1st November, 2016.
Our Youth Chairman, Derek Lee shared his industry and startup experience on the entrepreneur process to the postgraduate students. There were a lot of open discussion rasied out by students for how to make the SME startup successful in Hong Kong and the global opportunities and challenges during the commercialization process.
2016-10-13
HKETA Youth Joined APAC Innovation Summit 2016 Series - The Elevator World Tour Hong Kong by HKSTP
HKETA Youth was invited by Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks (HKSTP) to join the event of APAC Innovation Summit 2016 at Sky100, International Commerce Centre of Hong Kong on 13th October 2016.
Our Youth Chairman, Derek Lee and Youth member, Monica Leung participated this tour and met a lot of potential startups. There were 100 startups into final stages with some showcases for their solution and products.
For the event and photo : https://www.apacinnosummit.net/EWT/
2016-09-30
HKETA Youth Jointly Organized Networking Dinner with HKSTP
Theme : Electronic Sensors/ ICs Business and Application – Successful Cases Sharing
HKETA Youth jointly organized with HKSTP (Electronic Clusters) for September Networking Dinner with the theme of “Electronic Sensors/ ICs Business and Application – Successful Cases Sharing”. It was successfully held on 30th Sept, 2016 at Happiness Cuisine at Science Park.
Over 70 participants including guests, industry fellows and young students of UG/PG from local universities of HKU, HKUST and PolyU joined our dinner event. Our guests made a great presentation and discussion to explore electronic sensors innovation, technology and ecosystem in Hong Kong by HKSTP (Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks) who supported the development of innovative technologies in the areas of Smart City, Healthy Ageing and Robotics in Hong Kong. Also, two recognized technology enterprises from local industry focusing on developing and marketing their sensors/ semi-conductor/microelectronic product solutions in Hong Kong were invited to share their successful cases. They explored their business models, sales and marketing how to penetrate their product solutions successfully into the market globally based on their sensors/ICs technology and application.
Three talks were presented by the following professionals from industry :
(1) Sensor Innovation & Ecosystem in Hong Kong : To explore sensors innovation, technology and ecosystem in Hong Kong, by Dr Carmen Fung, Ph.D., Manager (Electronics Cluster), HKSTP
(2) My Personal Experience in Starting an IC Design Company in Hong Kong, by Mr Chuck Cheng, Founder and CEO, Appotech
(3) Long Lasting Blue Ocean Strategy by Advanced Packaging Technologies: An Overview of Today’s And the Future's Camera Module Assembly, by Mr. Poh Tson Cheong, Joe, Senior VP, Market, ASM Pacific Technology
For more information, http://www.hketa.org.hk/events/categoryDetail.shtml?category_id=125&type=0
2016-09-14
Industry Sharing for Post-Graduates of MSc Engineering at HKUST
HKETA Youth was invited by Career Centre of The Hong Kong of University of Science and Technology (HKUST) for an industry sharing session to a class of MSc of Engineering post-graduates on 14th Sept, 2016. The theme of this forum discussion was "Job Search Strategies for Engineering Jobs in Hong Kong". Mr. Derek Lee, our Youth Chairman shared his industry experience and advice on the employment landscape of engineering field in Hong Kong to the post-gruaduate students. We had a lot of open discussion on traditional hiring channels and how students using new ways in the job market. Also we explored a lot of global opportunities and challenges in the current tech market in the small talk circles session.
In the event, other industry seniors from Corporate Human Resources and Training Development also participated in the forum discussion and small talk circles to provide valuable advices to students from different business and corporate aspects.
For photo, please CLICK HERE.
2016-09-10
Congratulations to Our Youth Member, Blueinno Technology Featured in Singtao's Smart Parents Magazine (Vol. 333)
Our Youth Member, Ms Monica Leung and her technology startup, Blueinno Technology, launched her STEAM education program recently into the market. Her kids education program was well recognized by the market and was featured in Singtao’s Smart Parents (親子王) on 8th Sept 2016.
STEAM (Science, Technology, Electronics, Art, and Mathematic) is a new trend for technology education in the world nowadays, STEAM education inspires our next generation on the spirit of invention and innovation. It helps kids to enhance the logical thinking and critical analysis to catch up with the future technology world.
Blueinno Technology is specializing to design and develop special STEAM education curriculum and product solutions to teach kids Science and Mathematics with programming, electronics, and robotics. Blueinno is one of few startups focusing on STEAM education development in Hong Kong and target the market in Asia Pacific.
About Blueinno, http://www.blueinnotechnology.com/
For the press, http://www.blueinnotechnology.com/press20160910
2016-08-19
HKETA Youth Lanuched the First Youth Forum (Career Opportunity for Tech Market in Hong Kong)
HKETA Youth organized the first Youth Forum (Networking Practicum in Small Talks Circles) on 19th August 2016, 6:30-9:00 pm in the Hong Kong Productive Council. The theme of this forum was “Career Opportunity for Tech Marketing in Hong Kong”. This Youth Forum was one of our Youth Sub-committee’s major activities in a quarterly basis. It was designed for UG/PG students and young alumni in local Universities for gathering and networking fellowship in our Youth platform.
In this forum, Peter Lam, Managing Director of Engineering of HKT was invited as our guest speaker to present the ICT/IOT market in Hong Kong and address the market opportunity for young professional. Participants could face to face, interacted with our speaker sharing on current the rapid change on network and information technology perspective, the challenge & opportunity of engineering & management field in the market, and advice on future career development for the young people.
Around 50 participants including guests and young students of UG/PG from HKUST and PolyU with different faculties (such as engineering, business, IT and social science) joined our forum. We had a lot of open and insight discussions under several round of small talks in our sharing sessions. Students are also participated very active and with proactive attitude to voice out their concerns, expectation and expect to make contribution to the society in their future.
At the end of the forum, there was a panel discussion with a group of professionals from Universities, Youth members of HKETA, and other guests from industry to share with young students (from engineering and business perspectives) in the right way, how to keep abreast of latest technologies applying into the business world, and extend to personal & business assessments, how to develop the core competency in the market and, more important is how to equip yourselves to be professional, make sustainable growth, and achievement on your personal fulfillment in the lifelong learning process.
For more information on this forum, http://www.hketa.org.hk/events/categoryDetail.shtml?category_id=123&type=0
For more photo, please CLICK HERE
For program rundown, please CLICK HERE
2016-08-01
Industry Sharing for a Class of School of Business at HKU
HKETA Youth was invited by The University of Hong Kong (HKU) for conducting two sessions of an industry sharing to the undergraduates of a School of Business from a China’s University on 20th July and 1st August 2016. The main themes of the two corporate sharing workshops were:
Over 40 undergraduates were joined each session with a lot of open discussion, global technology opportunities and challenges in the end of the events.
For more information, http://www.blueinnotechnology.com/dochkuhketa
For more photo and program, http://www.blueinnotechnology.com/#!20160801hku/w1ta4
2016-06-29
Congratulations to Our Youth Member with her Startup, Blueinno Technology Featured in HKET
Ms Monica Leung, our Youth Member and her technology education startup, Blueinno Technology, who is also our corporate member in HKETA, launched her kid technology program recently into the market. Her program is well recognized by the market and also was featured in Hong Kong Economics Times (HKET) on 29th June 2016.
The mission of her startup is to promote invention and innovation in Hong Kong as well as to Asia Pacific, inspire kids on the spirit of invention, and be positive towards tomorrow’s innovation economy.
Her kid technology development program, with the art of state in the coding curriculum, is specially designed for inventing and inspiring kids to explore today’s technology and science through the skill-sets of Electronics, Coding, Robotics and Design thinking methodology. It is more important for the kids to visualize the technology concept easily and empower their mind for imagination and creation. They may naturally come out of something with “strong and positive” in their mind through the class.
About Blueinno, http://www.blueinnotechnology.com/
For the press, http://www.blueinnotechnology.com/press20160629
2016-06-24
HKETA Youth Organized a Technical Visit to ASTRI Security Laboratory
2016-04-01
Final Judging for Computing Solved It (CSI) Inception Competition at PolyU
Computing Solved It (CSI) Inception was founded and organized by the Department of Computing at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a team-based problem-solving competition. The objective of this competition was to challenge the Engineering freshmen to innovate technologies and their applications. This year's grand challenge is “The iBalance for Life and Work” and the final judging was held on 1st April, 2016 at PolyU.
Mr. Derek Lee, our Youth Chairman of HKETA was invited as one of final judges in the panel. There were 10 groups into final stages with showcases for their solutions and products in the forms of demonstrations in booth sessions and presentation.
For details, http://www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~csi_inception/
For photo, https://www.facebook.com/CSI2016Inception/?hc_location=ufi
2016-01-29
Industry Visit for Undergraduates of Xidian University of China to HKSTP
HKETA Youth co-organized with The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Research Institute of Tsinghua Univserity in Shenzhen (深圳清華大學研究院) to organize half-day of industry visit to Hong Kong Science and Technology Park (HKSTP) for a class of undergraduates from Xidian University (西安电子科技大学) on 29 Jan 2016. In this event, the students are participated to understand the operation and entrepreneur program of HKSTP. We also arranged to visit an IC-design based technology company : Minilogic Device Corporation in HKSTP that they shared with our students how to run a tech startup and consequently to make it IPO in Hong Kong.
Through the visit and industry sharing, the attendants realized how HKSTP to provide an innovation and technology ecosystem to the tech companies, incubation programme for startups, and nurture technology talents in Hong Kong. The tech company also shared their entrepreneur process and experience with the students. It could strengthen the corporation and technology sharing between Mainland China and Hong Kong.
At the end of the event, Derek Lee, our Youth Chairman and WK Lee of HKU/EEE make the conclusion for the young people specially for the current global business situation, challenge and opportunity both in Mainland China and Hong Kong. Students are required to well prepare for the next wave of economic growth with industrial v4.0 come.
