The Hong Kong Prize is a merit-based award to reward outstanding young scientists in HK for their research that has the potential to significantly impact scientific, business, finance and engineering applications. Its assessment criteria focus on evaluating candidates’ independence, exploration, creativity, innovation and feasibility.
The 2023 Hang Lung Mathematics Awards saw a record participation of around 70 teams from schools across the city. The teams, under the guidance of their teachers, decided on a mathematics topic to conduct research and submit a written report for evaluation. The top 15 teams were invited to the Oral Defense stage where they presented their findings to a panel of experts. The final results were announced at an award ceremony held in December.
Each of the winning student artists will receive a medal, a certificate and an equal share of HK$5,000 of Merit prize among all group members. Their schools will also receive a trophy.
In the history of the Hong Kong prize, there have been many inspiring stories about young people who put their heart into their studies and research. We are honoured to celebrate the success of these inspiring scholars.
Five researchers at local universities have won the BOCHK Science and Technology Innovation Prize 2024, prestigious awards which are crucial to Hong Kong’s future tech-innovation and support the special administrative region’s economic transition.
Athletes who win team gold, silver and bronze medals for their country will get more money than athletes with individual golds or silvers. This is because team-event medals are worth double those of individual events, with gold medal winners getting a maximum of HK$12m, silver medalists HK$6m and bronze medalists HK$3m.
The Hong Kong prize aims to encourage students to study the relationship between historical developments in Hong Kong and its people, society, and culture. The Prize is awarded in memory of Professor Wang Gungwu, who kindly donated a sum to establish the History Prize at the University of Hong Kong in 1992.
Each year, the judging committee of the Hong Kong Prize will select up to 20 shortlisted projects from entries submitted by teachers from all secondary schools in Hong Kong. In addition to the Judges’ Prize, the Public Vote Prize of HK$4,000 will be awarded to the student artist whose project receives the most public votes, with a corresponding prize of HK$10,000 for the school of the winner.
The Xplorer Prize is an innovative grant scheme launched in 2018 by Pony MA, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Tencent and Founder of the Tencent Foundation, alongside renowned scientists. It is designed to fund young scientists who are pursuing their research with passion and ambition, but have been unable to secure funding from other sources. The Prize is a unique platform to help them pursue their dreams and transform our world by sharing their discoveries with the rest of the world. The Xplorer Prize is supported by the Hong Kong Science and Technology Development Council and sponsored by Sino Group.