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The final awardees of the pioneering Innovation and Technology Scholarship Award Scheme have well been selected. These Twenty-Five outstanding undergraduates from local universities will each be awarded a scholarship of HKD100,000 to participate in a comprehensive series of programmes. Through these programmes, awardees will be able to widen their international exposure and gain industry experience.  The awardees have been invited to attend the Award Presentation Ceremony on 28 April 2011 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, and received the glory from all supporting personalities of the Scheme including the members of Awardee Selection Committee, Award Scheme Administration Committee, the mentors, […]

25 distinguished undergraduates from local universities have been selected as awardees of the Innovation and Technology Scholarship Award Scheme2012 during the Award Presentation Ceremony held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on 19 April 2012. A 50% increasedscholarship of $150,000 will be presented to each of theawardees, enablingthem to participate in a series of programmes, including Overseas Attachment, Local Internship, Mentorship and Service Projects. Dr Rosanna Wong, Executive Director, The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups, Miss Anita Fung, Chief Executive Officer Hong Kong, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited,Ms Elizabeth Tse Man-yee, Permanent Secretary for Commerce […]

A one-day Pre-Trip Training Programme has been held last Saturday (26 May 2012) for the new awardees while they are currently preparing themselves to go overseas for their attachment programme. The Scheme Secretariat has invited several experts in different fields to give seminars to the youths, in order to encourage them to be ambassadors of Hong Kong to promote our city when they are in overseas as well as to do cultural and academic knowledge exchange. In the day, Mr Cao Guo-ying, Deputy Director – General of Education, Science and Technology Department, Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in […]

Innovation and Technology Scholarship Award Scheme does not only provide opportunities to the awardees to develop, but it also encourages youths to contribute to the community with their knowledge.  Ten awardees of the Scheme 2012 have participated in the “InnoCarnival 2012” held at the Hong Kong Science Park in early November to promote InnoTech among the younger generations. They designed and organised 15 sessions of workshop in different topics about science for primary and secondary school students. All the participants enjoyed the workshop very much.      

Coming to its third year, 25 distinguished undergraduates from local universities have been awarded at the Award Presentation Ceremony of Innovation and Technology Scholarship Award Scheme 2013 held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on 17 April 2013. They will each receive a scholarship of up to HK$150,000 to participate in a series of initiatives including Overseas Attachment, Local Internship, Mentorship and Service Projects. With the unfailing support by renowned personalities and various organizations, awardees are given a top class opportunity to equip themselves to take the challenges in the field of innovation and technology.  It is hoped […]

To achieve success in innovation and technology industry, students do not only need to work hard in their own profession, but they also need to gain their knowledge in other fields, and learn from other successful people. The Scheme Secretariat organised a gathering for the awardees and alumni on 4 May 2013. In the gathering, three special guests from different professions were invited to give the students seminars. Moreover, mentors and committee members of the Scheme have also attended and mingled with the youths. Seminars by Special Guests Mr Denis Tse (Head of Private Investments – Asia & Venture Capital, […]

Thanks for the support to our youth from all over the society, the group of medicine awardees of the scholarship had an opportunity again to learn from experts on 28 September 2013. In the afternoon, Dr Bill Chan, Chief of Service, Department of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Hospital Service Director (IT&T), and Miss Janet Wong, JP, Commissioner for Innovation and Technology, have joined a special gathering with 10 young doctors or medicine undergraduates to share their experience and insight about the field. The gathering nurtured these new forces in medicine industry a lot.  

5 awardees had organised 6 science workshops on 19 October at CityPlaza for the InnoTech Month 2013 Raodshow to promote InnoTech among the public. They had integrated science into daily lives, designed interactive games and little experiments so as to arouse interest among the children. They had also successfully passed on the knowledge from one generation to another. 14 more awardees will organise 20 science workshops in the InnoCarnival 2013 held in Hong Kong Science Park on 2-3 & 9-10 November. Come and support us!

9 days InnoCarnival had been successfully launched in Science Park. Some of our awardees had offered 20 workshops in 4 days among the InnoCarnival. Their specially designed science workshops had attracted over 350 primary and secondary students, parents and children to join. The workshops allowed them to enjoy the fun of science through participating interesting science experiments.