Hong Kong Student Science Project Competition 2014

The Hong Kong Student Science Project Competition (HKSSPC) was jointly organized by The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Group, the Education Bureau and the Hong Kong Science Museum, under the major sponsorship of the Innovation and Technology Commission. The event was held at the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks on 10 May 2014. The theme 2014 is "From Theory to Practice‧Develop Science Potential". It aims to encourage students to apply their science knowledge and creativity to build up teamwork skills through the research process for this exhibition.

The Competition consists of 4 Divisions. Age limit of each Division is as following:
1. Scientific Wallchart Division (NEW!): Students from F.1 to F.6 aged 19 or below (born on or after 30 April 1995)
2. Junior Division: Students from F.1 to F.3 aged 17 or below (born on or after 30 April 1997)
3. Senior Division: Students from F.4 to F.6 aged 19 or below (born on or after 30 April 1995)
4. Open Division: All students who completed secondary school and aged 18 to 25 (born on 30 April 1989 to 30 April 1996)

My niece (Left in photo) was one of participants (Leung Shek Chee College) and their project entitled “The Disappearance of Vitamin C”. The project aims to observe if the amount of Vitamin C in Orange Junice would decrease against time. They found that a significant drop (upto about 30%) of Vitamin C after 3 days exposure in Air.

Then we took a family photo for memory.

One of topics is about disinfection efficiency of different agents included alcohol, Bleach and Dettol.

Another topic is interested which named “Easy Check, Easy Go, Blood Glucose!” and it detects diabetic patients’ breathing which contained Diabetes Ketoacidosis (DKA).

Minda’s cousin school also joined the competition and one of teams project was to study the soil composition in Hong Kong.

Reference:
HKFYG – HKSSPC - http://hksspc.hkfyg.org.hk/page.aspx?corpname=hksspc&i=2951