Pui Ching students participated in the Macao regional competition of the Artificial Intelligence Programming Contest hosted by HKITEC.  This contest aims to increase student understanding of artificial intelligence and improve students’ creative and innovative abilities.  After almost two months’ hard work, our contestants achieved outstanding results.  Junior 1 students Lei Si In (S1A), Kuok Chi Ioi (S1A), and Lao Kin Nam (S1B) developed an app for the smart phone for seniors and won the Macao regional championship in the secondary school category.  In the primary school category, Chan Seong Lai (P5B), Cheong Sio Fong (P5B), and Ng Iek Hin (P6A) developed an app for the smart phone for students, parents and schools and won the Macao regional championship in the primary school category.  Two other teams won the gold award:

Gold award in secondary school category:

Students: Wong Ip Fong (S5A), Chu Ka Chon (S5A), Tam Iong Ngai (S5A)

Entry: AI Smart Idioms Cartoon Club

Gold award in primary school category:

Students: Lam Chi U (P6A), Chan Chi Cheng (P6A), Lai Cheng Nam (P6A)

Entry: VIP Detection Device

Pui Ching teachers Ms. Lam Sao Lan and Mr. Lei Chan Pong respectively won the championship and gold award for instructors.  Congratulations to our students and teachers!

The rematch for the Macao Youth (Interschool) Innovations Challenge was held in the Macao Science Center from March 27 to 28.  68 entries were entered into the rematch this year.  19 of them were from Pui Ching.  36 Pui Ching students participated in the rematch. 

This year’s competition was simultaneously open to the public for viewing.  After students answered questions from the judges behind closed doors for three hours, 9 of our entries won the distinction award, 8 won the merit award, and 2 won the first prize, making Pui Ching the school with the greatest number of distinction awards and the greatest total number of awards in Macao.

Secondary school students from dozens of countries and regions around the world entered for the 2021 Model G20 Virtual Summit.  From among thousands of candidates, a total of 8 students from Pui Ching Middle School successfully became the final 400 senior high delegates.  The theme of this year’s summit is Climate Change.  Delegates were assigned to different teams at random, attended lectures given by Harvard and Yale professors, participated in three weeks of group discussions, literature review, document preparation and public lectures.  In the process, our 8 contestants successfully overcame the time, language and cultural differences and finally, Ms. Lo Ka Ieng won the highest award as one of the Most Outstanding Delegates. 

Pui Ching students who participated in the event included Lo Ka Ieng (S6D), Lao Chin Ut (S2E), Wu Chou I (S2E), Mak Chi Son (S3A), Chan Kuan Wai (S4D), Chan Cheng Tong (S4D), Lo Weng Ka (S5B), and Chong Pui Hei (S5B).

The China regional finals of the 2021 National Economics Challenge were held in Nanjing from March 26 to 28.  Senior 2C students Lei Ian In, Lou Chu Un, Wong Io Hang, and Nga Leong Keng entered for the competition in the junior category and won the merit award for problem solving and gold award in the team written exam.  The National Economics Challenge is an economics competition for high school students from around the world.  Over 2800 contestants from international schools in China participated in the China regional finals.