Press Release 15 March 2018 - Octopus Hong Kong

“Octopus Kids' Nurturing Programme – Curating our Smart City” Drawing and Mobile Application Design Contest Opens for Application

(Hong Kong, 15 March 2018) Octopus Cards Limited (OCL) and St. James' Settlement (SJS), once again launches the territory-wide "Octopus Kids' Nurturing Programme – Curating our Smart City" Drawing and Mobile Application Design Contest (the Contest), for all primary and secondary school students. Themed "Curating our Smart City" this year, the Contest is now open for application until 29 March 2018. Interested parties can visit OCL's website for more details or sign up directly: www.octopus.com.hk/okncontest/en.

The Contest is held for the second time under the theme of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) with an aim to promote innovation, allowing students to unleash their boundless creativities through this platform. Riding on the inaugural success from last year, the Contest offers a unique opportunity for primary and secondary school students to demonstrate their creativity, knowledge in STEM and understanding of smart city development.

This year, students can bring their talents into full play by drawing or designing the Smart Living or Smart Mobility scenarios they would like to portrait to Hong Kong as a smart city. Winners from each category of the Contest will receive fabulous prizes as follows:

Primary Categories:	Champion, 1^st and 2^nd Runners-up: Personalised Octopus; STEM Class; Book Coupons Merits: Book Coupons and Certificate
Secondary Categories:	Champion, 1^st and 2^nd Runners-up: Personalised Octopus; South Korea Study Tour; Book Coupons Merits: Book Coupons and Certificate
Most Active Participation Award:	One winning school per category. Winning schools will be gifted a STEM class.
Most Popular Creation Award:	One winner per category. Winner in the Primary category will receive a free STEM class; that in the secondary category will be invited to the South Korea study tour.

All participating schools will receive a certificate of appreciation.

Judges found the finalists last year amazing. The winners were able to not only demonstrate their skills to realise their knowledge in STEM via coding different models, but to also show their out-of-the-box concepts.

This year, a Panel of Judges consisting of professionals from the government, FinTech, academic, social welfare and parenting sectors is formed to select the winners from each category. The list of the judging panel is as follows:

Dr Chi-hing Kee, Co-opted Members of The Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Fund Task Force, Commission on Poverty
Hon Charles Mok, Legislative Councillor (IT)
Dr Ray Cheung, Associate Professor of Department of Electronic Engineering, College of Science & Engineering at City University of Hong Kong
Ms Smile Cheung, Founder of Smile Training & Development, Veteran Journalist
Mr Francis Fong, Honorary President of the Hong Kong Information Technology Federation
Dr Kam-tim Woo, Associate Professor of Engineering Education, Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Dr William Yu, CEO of World Green Organisation
Representatives from OCL and SJS

Lee Hok-yin, Secondary Four student from Christian Alliance SW Chan Memorial College was the champion in the Secondary Junior category last year. His winning masterpiece was named Smart Aluminium Cans Recycling Box. He shared that "To solve the waste management issue in Hong Kong, plus to promote waste separation and recycling, citizens can download the App, link it with the ‘Smart Can Recycling Box', separating the plastic bottles and aluminium cans. The idea allows users to gain bonus points with the use of Octopus cards, and helps collect big data for further analytics by the government in refining the relevant environment policies."

Lee joined the STEM-study-tour with the champion in the Secondary Senior category and other fellow runners-up to visit Japan last July.

This year, winners and runners-up in the Secondary School category will be once again given the chance to have an eye-opening tour to South Korea. Winners and runners-up in the Primary School category will be awarded free STEM classes, allowing them to further develop their interests in the topic.

What's more, an additional "Most Popular Creation Award" is added, with the works from the shortlisted contestants uploaded to Facebook for public voting. The works gaining most public votes will be the winner.

Key Dates

Application Deadline: 29 March 2018
Proposal Deadline: 20 April 2018 (for Secondary category only)
Submission Deadline: 18 May 2018

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1. Mr Sammy Kam, Technical Director of OCL was one of the judges for last year. He shared that the finalists last year were amazing. The winners were able to not only demonstrate their skills to realise their knowledge in STEM, but to also showcase their creativities. He encouraged contestants this year to think out of the box.

2. Lee Hok-yin, Secondary Four student from Christian Alliance SW Chan Memorial College was the champion in the Secondary Junior category last year. His winning masterpiece named Smart Aluminium Cans Recycling Box, aims to solve the waste management issue in Hong Kong. He shared that the trip to Japan was eye-opening and inspiring.

Lee Hok-yin, Secondary Four student from Christian Alliance SW Chan Memorial College and his winning masterpiece named Smart Aluminium Cans Recycling Box

3. Ms Vivienne Chiu, Head of Corporate Communications of OCL (first left), Mr Sammy Kam, Technical Director of OCL (first right), Wong Chung Yin Jerry, champion in the Secondary Senior category last year (second left) and Lee Hok-yin, champion in the Secondary Junior category last year (second right).

Ms Vivienne Chiu, Head of Corporate Communications of OCL (first left), Mr Sammy Kam, Technical Director of OCL (first right), Wong Chung Yin Jerry, champion in the Secondary Senior category last year (second left) and Lee Hok-yin, champion in the Secondary Junior category last year (second right).

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