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擐葛蝘?瘣餃?
WHAT? HAPPENING IN HONG KONG ?
Fun in Winter Science Activities ?砍迤??摮詨末蝭??
Any plans for this winter? Check out these science activities! 閮?憟賡憭拍?憟賢????銝成?隞乩?瘣餃?嚗?
The Shaw Prize 2018 Exhibition 2018?菟詨井??閬?
Established in 2002, the Shaw Prize recognizes scientists ??詨井?2002撟渲身蝡?閮剜?銝???
with recent significant breakthrough in scientific work. It ?詨飛蝘飛???賜?摮貉??怠飛??憭拇?摮貊?嚗?consists of 3 annual prizes: Mathematical Sciences,
Life Science and Medicine, and Astronomy. In the ??蝯血?賊?摮貉??????箄甜?餅?
exhibition, you can learn more about the 2018 ?刻???蝒?抒?蝛嗆???蝘飛摰嗚?Shaw Laureates and their scientific research. ??甈∪?閬踝?雿隞交瘛勗隤?隞僑?? 敺??誑????蝘?撌乩??? Venue: Main Lobby,
Hong Kong Science Museum ?圈?嚗?皜舐?摮賊尹憭批?
撅?嚗?018撟???1????11??1?? Date: 21 September 2018 ??21 November 2018
Hong Kong Butterfly Photo Competition 2018 蝚砍???擐葛?渲?蔣瘥魚2018
The topic of the Hong Kong Butterfly Photo Competition 隞僑?梁靽??脫??陶??嗡??脣??蜓颲衣?
2018, held by the Fung Yuen Butterfly Reserve, Environmental ?洵??撅?皜航?嗆?敶望?鞈?018?蜓憿????Association, is ?ppreciate our Ecosystems, Protect our ??靽?憓蜓颲行?瑽???瘞隞交迨?箏?璈?
Environment?? With this opportunity, local residents can learn ?湔楛?亙隤??渲?派鞈????嗥???敺? more about butterflies and appreciate the ecology of ???之摰嗅?靽???啣???霅? their natural habitats. The organizers also hoped to raise
the awareness on environmental protection through this ??鞈???? 閬???? 憭???撘???鞈???? ???? competition. fungyuenbutterfly@gmail.com嚗??撅
?渲隞颱??挾??潛?憓葉??嗥?????鞈? Contestants are required to send no more than 2 photos 閰單?嚗??儭退ttps://www.fungyuen.org/
by email at fungyuenbutterfly@gmail.com. The beauty of
butterfly (at any developmental stage) in its natural habitat ?芣迫?交?嚗?needs to be shown in the photos. For further details about the 2018撟?1??0??competition, please visit http://www.fungyuen.org/.
Submission deadline: 30 November 2018
Hong Kong Youth Science and Technology 擐葛??撟渡??
Innovation Competition 2018-19 ?菜憭扯魚 2018-19
The 21st competition will be held during the period of ?砍?鞈賭?撠 2018 撟?9 ? 2019 撟?4 ????September 2018 to April 2019. Among the different categories, ??嚗銝剝??銝剔??????桀??研?蝛??esearch and Invention??and ?utstanding STEM Activity?? ????蝘 STEM 瘣餃???are the two that are suitable for high school students.
??蝛嗅??潭????桀??箝??撌? The secondary division of ?esearch and Invention??is 蝔?摮詨??????拙??亙熒?皞?divided into 5 sub-categories, namely ?athematics,?Physics ?憓?摮詻???血?鞈?蝘??? ???伐??魚
and Engineering?? ?hemistr y and Materials?? ?iology ??芾??豢?隞亙犖??蝯?桐?嚗誑?弦隢??? ?潭???鞈賬蝘 STEM 瘣餃???敶W??臬??祈玨
and Health?? ?nergy and Environmental Science??and 憭暑??蝛嗆批飛蝧?蝷暹?撖西?瘣餃?嚗?摮詨隞亙飛?? ?omputer Science and Information Technology?? 撠??蝝?摮豢?蝯??箏雿鞈賬? Participants can submit either a research project or
an invention, and apply individually or in groups. 蝬脖??勗??芣迫?交???2019 撟?1 ??31 ?伐?雿?
The format of ?utstanding STEM Activity??can be ?甇a?鈭斗????2019 撟?2 ??16 ?乓? extracurricular activities, research studies or social
activities. Groups, classes or clubs/associations in ??鞈賭?閰單?嚗??儭? http://stic.newgen.org.hk/
secondary schools will be the basic unit of participation.
The deadline of online application is 31 January 2019.
The deadline of submission of Research and Invention
(Secondary Division) or projects by school societies is 16
February 2019.
For more details, please visit http://stic.newgen.org.hk/.
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