The Women’s Interschool Basketball Competition held its finals in Category A at 6:30 tonight.  Pui Ching outplayed the International School of Macao by 63:51, winning the championship.

The Men’s Category A and Women’s Category A finals for the Interschool Volleyball Competition were held at 4:00pm today.  Our Women’s Category A Volleyball Team outplayed Santa Rosa de Lima English Secondary School by 3:0, winning the twelfth consecutive championship in the Women’s Category A competition.  Our Men’s Category A Team was outplayed by Instituto Salesiano, coming in as the first runner-up.

For this academic year, Pui Ching won a total of four championships (in the Women’s Category A, Men’s Category B, Women’s Category B, and Men’s Category C Competition) and two second places (in the Men’s Category A and Women’s Category C Competition).

Due to the pandemic, Robocup@Home Education 2020 came in the form of an online challenge. After the first round of technical review, our school team won the qualification to participate in the challenge.  The online challenge was held from June 25 to 28, 2020.  Teams came from around the world, showcasing home service robot technologies and their applications, including image recognition, voice control, indoor navigation, automatic obstacle avoidance, etc.

Our school team’s invention employs humanoid identification and tracking functions to enable robots to follow the elderly in their daily walks; it also assists the elderly with heavy objects, reminds them to bring their personal belongings, and helps to monitor their health conditions and seek help when necessary.     

The team also wishes to take this opportunity to promote the development of home service robots.  It is hoped that image recognition can help to integrate robots into our daily lives and enable robots to better understand their surroundings. 

The student inventors won the Open Platform Junior Category Gold Award in the competition.  The award winners included Senior 1 students Mok Chi Kin, Lei In Hei and Sin Ka Chon and Junior 2 student Leong Chi Io.  Below is the link to the students’ demonstration film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZaf27DDgyM&feature=youtu.be

The awards ceremony for the 25^th Macau Secondary School Post-Reading Reflection Writing Competition was held this afternoon.  Junior 3A student Han Lang won the championship in the Junior High Category with his “My love for my homeland – thoughts after reading The Autobiography of Ba Jin”.  He gave a speech on behalf of the Junior High Category.  Junior 2A student Wong Hou Cheng won the Merit Award in the Junior High Category.  Senior 1C student Tou U Kit came in as the first runner-up in the Senior High Category with her “Thoughts after reading Sophie’s World”.  Senior 2A student Xiang Yifan came in as the second runner-up in the Senior High Category with her “Where time is, I am”.  Senior 1A student Mok Chi Kin, Senior 1B student Lam Teng Kit, Senior 1E student Or Chin Wai, Senior 2D student Chan Hou Chai and Senior 3B student Ho Iok Weng won the Merit Award in the Senior High Category.