The University of Macau (UM) organises\ninnovative programmes and activities on a regular basis to nurture technology\nprofessionals for Macao. Recently, UM\u2019s Centre for Science and Engineering\nPromotion hosted the 2019 Macao Youth Innovation Challenge to provide professional\nguidance and training opportunities for winning students as well as students with outstanding performance. The centre also hosted the 2019 Guangdong, Hong Kong\nand Macau Youth Innovation Challenge to promote collaboration and\nexchange in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) in science popularisation.<\/p>
The Macao Youth Innovation Challenge\nwas co-organised by the Macao Science and Technology\nDevelopment Fund (FDCT) and the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ), with\nassistance from UM, the Association for the Promotion of Science and Technology\nof Macau, Macau Institute of Engineers, and Macao Innovation and Invention\nAssociation. Winners of the competition and those who did not win any awards\nbut showed great potential at the competition will be invited to join a science\nand technology talent development programme organised by FDCT and DSEJ. The competition attracted more\nthan 100 students from 15 secondary schools in Macao. Chief judges of the competition were Shu Degan, member\nof the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Xu Ao\u2019ao, member of the International\nAcademy of Astronautics; and Prof Iu Vai Pan from the Department of Civil and\nEnvironmental Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, UM. Xue Quan,\ndean of the School of Electronic and Information Engineering at South China\nUniversity of Technology, served as the principal judge. Prof Tam Kam Weng,\ndirector of UM\u2019s Centre for Science and Engineering Promotion, served as the\ngeneral-secretary. In addition, 48 faculty members and experts from Macao, Hong\nKong and Shenzhen, were invited to serve as the reviewers.<\/p>
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In addition, the Centre for Science and\nEngineering Promotion hosted the 2019 Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau Youth Innovation\nChallenge. During the event, teams from six schools in the GBA competed and\nexchanged ideas with their counterparts from Macao. In the future, the centre\nwill continue to promote science popularisation and help develop Macao into a\nhub of STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) education in the\nGBA, in collaboration with FDCT.<\/p>
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Source: Faculty of Science and Technology<\/p>
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