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The Hong Kong Science Museum, the Department of Physics of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Education Bureau will jointly hold the "SciPOP" Science Presentation Contest next year as a new platform for students to demonstrate their knowledge of science and talent in science communication. Enrolment for the contest started today (December 10) and will close on December 30.
The contest aims to foster the pursuit of science knowledge among local secondary school students and enhance students' presentation and communication skills. Contestants will be required to conduct a five-minute science presentation, with the use of props or hands-on experiments. They can determine their own presentation topics under the subject of physics.
Contestants must be full-time Hong Kong secondary school students aged 15 or above (as at December 31, 2015). Each team is to be composed of four student members and should be nominated by its school. Each school can nominate a maximum of two teams and the quota for the contest is 70 teams. Applications will be accepted for the first nominated team of each school on a first-come, first-served basis. After the close of applications, the remaining quota, if any, will be assigned to the second nominated teams based on the submission times of the application forms.
Completed application forms should be faxed to 2311 2248 at or before 6pm on December 30. Schools admitted to the contest will be notified in writing in early January.
The preliminary and final contests will be held on January 23 and April 23 respectively. Presentations can be conducted in English, Cantonese or Putonghua.
There will be a champion, a first runner-up, a second runner-up and three merit prizes. The top three winning teams and the teachers in charge will be entitled to join the Young Scientists Study Tour 2016 to Switzerland and France for free, and may visit the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility and the Institut Laue-Langevin. A further eight finalists will be selected individually to join the tour according to their interview performance.
For details of the contest, please refer to the contest's website at hk.science.museum/scipop2016. For enquiries, please call 2732 3220.
Ends/Thursday, December 10, 2015
Issued at HKT 15:01
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