Smart City Consortium

(Organiser)

Smart City Consortium (SCC) is formed by a group of professionals from different corporations and organizations to provide opinions and suggestions to the Government for formulating related policies and standards in the development of Hong Kong as a world-class smart city.

STEM PLUS Limited

(Operator)

STEM PLUS Limited is an experienced event organizer and a supplier of STEM products and solutions.

BACKground

Why AI? 

To the general public, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is complicated and impossible to understand. However, it’s an approach to managing and processing data; it’s rooted in engineering; a way of problem-solving and designing solutions in an entirely new way

Why Formula-Edge?

Edge computing is computing that’s done at or near the source of the data, without the need of subscribing to a public cloud, reducing overall entry barrier to learn and apply the latest AI technology, making it more approachable to teachers and students.

Why self-driving cars?

Amid the idea of a self-driving car is actively studied and tested for use on the road, with many open-source software, powerful single boards computers (which are well known to school) and machine learning tools available on the market, it becomes easier for teachers and students to create a self-driving vehicle.

Objectives:

Motivate students to learn the latest AI technology without the need of expensive equipment via constructing such a car on a small scale using parts and software that are accessible to anyone on an affordable budget.

Expected outcome: 

• Build up participants’ skills in coding, robotics and AI model building

• Strengthen participants’ skills in team building and critical thinking

• Serve as a simple testbed for different ideas in self-driving vehicles

Target Participants: P6 students or above in Hong Kong

Targeted number of participating schools: 50 to 80

Participation fee: HK$950 per team. One School can register multiple teams.

Venue size of the competition:~1,000 to 1,500sqm. Total Venue size ~3900sqm

Competition hours: 10:00 to 17:00 on 10-12 December 2021

Expected number of visitors: ~6000

Admission fee: HK$20 for students | HK$80 for adults

ONE MORE THING!

Held in conjunction with the competition is a STEM Xmas Exhibition organised by STEM Plus Limited on an area of ~2400 to 2900 sqm. There will be STEM products suppliers and courses provider to showcase and introduce their latest STEM solutions to schools as well as general public.