STEM Competitions
Get your students fired up about STEM by participating in local, regional, and global competitions. They also offer great opportunities to develop teamwork and problem-solving skills.
An annual creativity-to-reality platform, brings together like-minded youths from different academic backgrounds to develop product prototypes, build friendships, and exchange ideas with industry experts.
2. Hong Kong ICT Awards : Student Innovation Award
This award aims to enhance students’ creativity and innovation, and recognize young ICT talents for their efforts in invention. Students at all grade levels are eligible to take part.
3. International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO)
IChO is an annual competition for talented chemistry students at the secondary school level. Student teams are tested on their chemistry knowledge and skills in a five-hour laboratory practical and five-hour written theoretical examination held on separate days.
4. International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO)
IMO is an annual six-problem mathematical Olympiad for secondary students and is held annually in a different country.
5. The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition
Students who take part in iGEM will use given and designed biological parts to build biological systems and operate them in living cells to learn about the applications that contribute to improvement of clean environment, bioenergy, medical health and foundational understanding of life science.
6. Underwater Robot Competition＠HKUST
The competition invites students from mainstream schools, students with special educational needs (SEN), physical disability, as well as ethnic minorities to take part and build their own underwater robot from scratch.
Clean Air Challenge, dedicated for secondary schools in Hong Kong, aims to raise environmental health literacy on air quality, as well as to nurture our young talents to anticipate innovative solution ideas that accommodate the multi-dimensionalities of air pollution problems around us.
This Challenge encompasses all the elements in S-T-E-A-M (i.e., Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) education model. Participation schools could opt for knowledge/skillset-transfer events/workshops complementing a project-mentorship scheme, alongside cross-disciplinary project ideas and final entries development. For sign up, visit https://cleanairchallenge.hkust.edu.hk/