26 Research and Summer Programs in Hong Kong

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Polygence is an online research program designed to offer high school students accessible research opportunities, making them more inclusive. The program was created by researchers from Harvard, MIT, and Stanford and provides tailored research projects, allowing students to explore their interests, acquire professional skills, and increase their competitiveness for college admissions.

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The MIT Innovation Academy: Student Bootcamp is an intense one-week innovation capacity building program for high school students. The bootcamp uses a project-based learning approach to enable students to begin their entrepreneurial journey and acquire a better understanding of the method for starting a successful venture.

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Funded by the Gifted Education Fund, and co-organised by CUHK Faculty of Education and MIT Innovation Node, the off-school advanced learning program is designed to train students’ socio-emotional skills, STEAM entrepreneurship skills, and positive attitudes and values toward STEAM entrepreneurship.

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A workshop on how to start a research project will be held for Secondary 1 to Secondary 5 students to sharpen their skills in carrying out scientific research. Outstanding young scientists from the YASHK will lead the workshops to teach the high school students effective ways to start a research project and to improve their analytical, planning, organising and presentation capabilities.

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The HKFYG Leadership Institute provides diverse training and exchange programmes to broaden the horizons of young people, while also offering opportunities and platforms for them to meet established, renowned and distinguished leaders who speak and share their stories from different perspectives and industries. The Institute's leadership provision credentials are further strengthened by the numerous tailor-made external programmes the Institute sets up for various government bureaux, tertiary institutions and private corporations.

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CCDC’s modern dance workshop for secondary students is the largest-scale programme of the CCDC Dance Centre. The scheme now has been served 6 primary and secondary schools in different districts. Our professional instructors go into campus to provide a 10-month training for students, which includes in-school introductory dance performance, costume & props workshop, teachers dance workshop. They also choreograph works for students to perform in the annual finale performance.

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Hong Kong UNESCO Global Geopark is a single entity where sites and landscapes of international significance are managed under the holistic concept of protection, education and sustainable development, with the support of local communities and other stakeholders. The Geopark offers education programs such as Rock Classroom which comprises a workshop and a guided tour that aims to enrich knowledge about Hong Kong’s geology and promote geoconservation awareness, the School Seminar which introduce the geopark concept, and the geological, ecological and cultural aspects of Hong Kong UNESCO Global Geopark thus aims to deepen the knowledge of teachers and students about Hong Kong nature, and the Geopark Schools Programme that has a wide range of science popularisation activities to inspire student's long-term interest in earth sciences, integrated with ecology and culture, and to promote the concept of sustainable development.

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This summer programme aims to enable secondary school students from Hong Kong and abroad to understand first-hand the joys and challenges of studying architecture. It provides an opportunity for enrolled students to unleash their creative potential through art, design and architecture. During the programme, students will learn to see the significance of architecture through lectures offered by professors from the School of Architecture, and explore the fun of design making by transforming a concept into three-dimensional spaces, using both hand tools and computing software.

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The CUHK Summer Institute (SI) is a 2-week summer programme that brings together secondary school students to explore various academic fields and gain insights into future studies at CUHK. The SI challenges students’ inquisitive minds and immerses them into the fascinating university teachings.

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In this 3-day hands-on workshop, we will go through the basics of information engineering and security. Specifically, participants will be introduced to the representation, encoding, and encryption of information. We will also go through some security problems related to input validation. This workshop mainly targets senior secondary school students (F4 to F6), but also welcomes junior secondary school students.

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Gifted and talented students often have special learning needs and styles. Summer Program for the Gifted and Talented is designed to provide diverse stimulating and highly challenging off-school learning opportunities for gifted students, and aims to help them explore and develop their talents and potential in an enriched learning environment. A wide variety of courses and workshops are open to application for Primary 3 through Secondary 6 students. Instructors are professors and lecturers of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, experienced teachers in gifted education, and experts in different professions.

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Science Academy for Young Talent is established by the Faculty of Science, CUHK in 2010. It aims at nurturing secondary school students who are talented in science by providing them with different enrichment courses. Courses offered in the Academy are organised by different departments or units in the Faculty. Students’ efforts are recognised in terms of university credit exemptions or award of certificates, depending on the category that the course belongs to.

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The Summer Research Internship provides opportunities for secondary school students to undertake engineering-related research attachments for approximately one month at CityU during the summer 2024. Students will be actively engaged in CityU laboratories under the supervision of CityU PhD students and a faculty member as an advisor.

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HKUST Summer Institute aims at providing an opportunity for high school students to experience learning and teaching at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and prepare them for future study.A wide range of credit-bearing courses are offered and delivered by our faculty members from the Schools of Science, Engineering, Business and Management, as well as Humanities and Social Science. In addition to learning new scopes of knowledge, students can broaden their perspectives, and develop their social and professional networks through our courses. The course credit earned can be counted towards students' undergraduate studies at HKUST in the future.

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Junior Researcher Mentoring Programme provides secondary school students with the chance to participate in various research projects under the guidance of PolyU academics, thereby opening the door for their future research endeavors.

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The PolyU Summer Institute 2024 is designed for Secondary 4 and Secondary 5 students, or equivalent, to have an immersive university experience at our campus and in Hong Kong. Interested students may choose to enrol in either (i) a residential camp (5 days, 4 nights); or (ii) a credit-bearing course (1 week) and a residential camp (5 days, 4 nights).

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The Generative AI and AIoT (GenAIoT) Coding Skills Education for Gifted Students programme aims to equip gifted students with essential knowledge related to artificial intelligence (AI), generative AI (GenAI) and AI internet of things (AIoT) technologies, engineering and mathematics, problem solving abilities, as well as other hands-on skills including software and hardware programming.

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The Social Entrepreneurship Boot Camp is an interactive summer program designed for 8-16 years old students. During this camp, students will undergo leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship training while learning how to develop their own solutions to unique social and environmental challenges.

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The Hong Kong Physics Olympiad (HKPhO) has been organised since 2003 to promote physics education in Hong Kong and provide an enhancement platform for students with high potential in physics. It also serves to identify outstanding students with good potential in physics and prepare them to participate in the IPhO.

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The Hong Kong Blockchain Olympiad (HKBCOL) serves to identify outstanding students and prepare them to participate in the IBCOL. A maximum of three secondary-level students form a team to compete in four rounds. Finalists are required to present their ideas at the Final Presentation and outstanding teams will be invited for further training to compete at IBCOL.

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The aim and objective of the student conference is to present secondary school student’s project work. The conference is open to students in any part of the world. The conference offers the chance for students to showcase selected work via a presentation, a poster and a student scientific paper. This will allow students to present and network with academia and industry professionals.

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Junior Science Institute (JSI) was introduced by the Faculty in 2009. It offers fun-filled science workshops and science-rich experiences to scientifically inclined senior secondary school students. We have designed a series of workshops and hands-on learning programmes for students to expose to different science disciplines. Through a variety of inspiring workshops, laboratory exercises, lectures and other interactive activities, participants are able to embark on a journey of science exploration.

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HKU TouchStart Science Summer Programme is a 3-day interactive summer workshops led by the enthusiastic researchers of HKU Science. Through talks, lab visits, demonstration, group projects and more, you will get the chance to delve deeper into more advanced topics in the scientific limelight. Embark on your journey into the exciting world of science and ignite your scientific inspiration!

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The Hong Kong Budding Poets (English) Award is a territory-wide writing competition for all primary and secondary school students in Hong Kong. It serves as a platform for students to express creatively through writing poetry in English. It aims to provide schools with a channel to identify gifted learners in English for extended training in creative writing.

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The aim of this Award, jointly organised by "G3 Alliance" comprising of Centum Charitas Foundation, The Hong Kong Academy for Gifted Education, and the Council of the Hong Kong Laureate Forum, is to create a dynamic platform that enables young individuals to unleash their imaginative ideas, cultivate critical thinking abilities, and make a constructive difference in their communities. By addressing the demand for talent development, we aspire to empower gifted youth to utilize their skills for the betterment of society and emerge as leaders in the realms of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices.

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The purpose of the Programme is to ​enhance Hong Kong students’ exposure to current scientific and technological development and to nurture future talents through experience sharing and interaction with experienced professionals. Through the one-year mentorship, mentors will inspire students with real world experience and industrial knowledge at a personal level, providing advice to help students unleash and realize their potential.