Reporter Huang Lu has a new creative "look" in the Greater Bay Area and is full of vitality. As one of the series of brand activities of Shenzhen Design Week, the 2nd Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macao Youth Creative Design Competition (hereinafter referred to as the "Youth Innovation Competition") has also officially come to an end. On April 21, the award ceremony of the 2nd Youth Innovation Competition was held in the South Campus of Shenzhen Senior High School (Group). On the same day, more than 500 guests and relevant persons in charge from Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao, as well as young students and teacher representatives from Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao attended the award ceremony.
Since its launch on October 14, 2023, the 2nd Youth Entrepreneurship Competition has used design as a medium to link young people in Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao, strengthen exchanges and in-depth understanding, and serve the national strategy of "one country, two systems", which has aroused enthusiastic responses in Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao, attracting hundreds of thousands of students and teachers from hundreds of schools in Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao to participate. According to statistics, 647 schools in the three places directly participated in the competition, including 421 in Shenzhen, 198 in Hong Kong and 28 in Macao, and a total of 6,078 entries were submitted in the three places, including 4,541 entries from primary and secondary schools in Shenzhen, 1,269 works from primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong, and 268 works from primary and secondary schools in Macao.
After fierce competition, a total of 128 winning individuals or teams in the Rising Star Group and Emerging Group were finally selected, including 8 Best Instructors/Mentoring Teams and 4 Best Organization Awards.
Exchanges and blends to stimulate the creative enthusiasm of young people in the three places
At the award ceremony of the 2nd Youth Innovation Competition, an award performance with the theme of "Run, Bay Area Youth" pushed the whole award ceremony to a climax. The award ceremony is divided into 5 chapters, including the opening program "I Want to Sing Me to You", the first chapter "Running to the Sun", the second chapter "Running and Chasing the Light", the third chapter "Running, Chasing Dreams", and the epilogue "Run, Bay Area Youth". The whole program embodies the profound meaning of Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao to create and integrate, exchange and blend, create the future, and write a new chapter.
Compared with the first competition, the second Youth Entrepreneurship Competition has the characteristics of wide participation, strong professionalism and great influence, showing that the platform of the Youth Entrepreneurship Competition has a far-reaching impact on stimulating the enthusiasm of young people in Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao for innovation and creativity, and promoting the exchange and integration of young people in Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao.
With the theme of "Exchange and Integration, Imagine the Future", the 2nd Youth Entrepreneurship Competition aims to promote extensive exchanges, comprehensive exchanges and in-depth integration among young people in Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao, enhance the centripetal force and sense of identity of Hong Kong and Macao young people towards the motherland, and support Hong Kong and Macao young people to integrate into the overall development of the country. Participate in national construction, stimulate the passion for innovation and creativity of young people in Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao, promote the development of creative design industries in the three places, encourage young people in the three places to combine local culture and customs, jointly paint the grand picture of the future of the Greater Bay Area, and jointly shape and enrich the humanistic spirit of the Greater Bay Area.
The competition collects works in four categories, including new scientific and technological inventions, creative new media, new perspectives of design, and new world of science fiction, and sets up two groups: the rising star group (grades 4 to 6 of primary school) and the emerging group (junior high school, high school, technical secondary school, vocational high school, vocational high school), and each group has 4 gold awards, 8 silver awards, 12 bronze awards, 20 excellence awards, and 20 nomination awards, for Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao teenagers under the age of 19. The judging panel of the competition is jointly formed by 12 experts invited from Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao, and the evaluation criteria are mainly divided into four dimensions: practicality, innovation, logic and forward-looking. After two days of intense judging in Shenzhen on March 23 and 24, the jury finally selected all the winning works.
The creative force is fully opened, and the new creative and high-quality productivity in the Bay Area has broken the momentum
After nearly five months of publicity, mobilization and participation, the competition received a total of 6,078 entries from primary and secondary school students in Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao. After fierce competition, Qiu Xunxi from Shenzhen Longhua School Education Group affiliated to East China Normal University won the gold medal in the rising star group (i.e. primary school group) with his work "I am a photon", Liu Yiyang from Shenzhen Liannan Primary School with his work "tumbler" to prevent spillage trays, Situ Ziyang from Hong Kong Po Leung Kuk Jintai Primary School and other 3 students with his work "I want to stretch my chest", and Ruan Yulan and other 4 students from the Third Foreign Chinese School in Longhua District, Shenzhen won the gold medal in the rising star group (i.e. primary school group) with their work "Shenzhen Window Handbook".
Eleven students including Ye Jianwei from Longlan School in Longhua District, Shenzhen won the Silver Award in the Rising Star Group; 20 students including Lam Ka Ho, Sin Man Ho and Tam Tsz Hin from Ap Lei Chau Kaifang School in Hong Kong, and Peng Yanqi from Meili Primary School in Futian District, Shenzhen won the Bronze Award in the Rising Star Group; 30 students including Li Tianyun and Shum Pak Yin from the Affiliated Primary School of Macau Laoxiao Middle School, and Liao Zhengyu from Shenzhen Guangming District Foreign Chinese School won the Excellence Award in the Rising Star Group; and 31 students including Li Qiqi from Shenzhen US-China School won the Nomination Award in the Rising Star Group.
In terms of the emerging group (middle school group), Jin Yichen, a student from Tongxin Foreign Chinese School in Pingshan District, Shenzhen, won the gold medal in the new perspective design category, Han Huixin and Han Huilin from Shenzhen Longhua District Foreign Chinese School Education Group (High-tech Campus) won the gold medal in the science fiction new world category, and Luo Jinhao, Zhao Chenye, Fang Yixuan and Li Peiye from Vanke Meisha Academy, Shenzhen International Exchange Academy and Huitong School brought the work "Water Garbage Collection Robot" It won the Gold Award in the New Technology Invention Category of the Emerging Talent Group, and the work "Anywhere, Anytime - Virtual St. Paul's" by Wang Zhixing and Zhao Chonghe from Pui Ching Secondary School in Macau won the Gold Award in the Creative New Media Category. Fifteen students from Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao, including Su Chenxi from Weiming School in Nanshan, Shenzhen, and Nie Zicheng from Guanhu Campus of Foreign Chinese School Education Group in Longhua District, Shenzhen, won the silver medal in the emerging group. A total of 23 students, including Xiang Yaru from Baihua Experimental School in Guangming District, Shenzhen, and Lin Weicheng from Fangzhong School in Macau, won the Bronze Award in the Emerging Group. A total of 39 students, including Liu Nuoqian from Macau Jiaoye Middle School and He Zixuan from Guanlan Experimental School in Longhua District, Shenzhen, won the Excellence Award in the Emerging Talent Group. A total of 23 students, including Li Wanshi from Qilin No. 2 Middle School of Shenzhen Nanshan Experimental Education Group, and Liu Haijie from Macau Vegetable Farmer's Children's School, won the nomination award in the new talent group.
The quality was upgraded, and the experts and celebrities called in unison and praised it
On October 14, 2023, the second Youth Entrepreneurship Competition was officially launched, and compared with the first Youth Entrepreneurship Competition, the second Youth Entrepreneurship Competition has significantly improved both the number and quality of entries. In this competition, the works submitted by students not only have the characteristics of the Bay Area, but also have strong practicality, which is both creative and touching. The whole competition showed the characteristics of stronger professionalism, wider participation and greater influence, and the energy, popularity and influence of the event were further enhanced, winning high recognition from leaders at all levels in Hong Kong and Macao, as well as professionals in the education and creative design fields.
Liu Wenbin, Deputy Director of the Propaganda Department of the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee, said that with a view to building the core brand and incubation platform of the "City of Design", the 2024 Shenzhen Design Week will reshape, reconstruct and reconstruct the positioning and operation mode, integrate the city's year-round design activities and resources, realize the participation of the whole city and the whole people, and build a "never-ending Shenzhen Design Week" from all angles. As one of the series of brand activities of Shenzhen Design Week, the 2nd Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macao Youth Creative Design Competition continues to stimulate the passion and inspiration of innovation and creativity among young people in Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao, cultivate young cultural talents from the three places, and cultivate new forces for the development of cultural and creative industries in the Greater Bay Area.
Zheng Xiuyu, director of the Shenzhen Municipal Education Bureau, said that innovation is the root and soul of Shenzhen. In the new era of rapid change, young people should understand the importance of creativity and innovation, and strive to improve their creative ability. The Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macao Youth Creative Design Competition not only enhanced the creative innovation ability of the participants, but also enhanced the exchanges and heart-to-heart integration of young people in the three places, which is very worthy of participation.
The Secretary for Education of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Ms Choi Yuk-lin, said that the theme of the Youth Entrepreneurship Competition is "Communication, Integration, and Imagination for the Future", encouraging young people from Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao to combine creativity and local culture and customs to depict the grand future of the Greater Bay Area.
The Director of the Education and Youth Development Bureau of the Macao Special Administrative Region, Gong Chi Meng, expressed the hope that the 2nd Youth Innovation Competition will continue to serve as a platform for young people from the three places to unleash their creativity and show their talents, promote exchanges between young people in the three places, unite the power of youth, enrich the humanistic connotation of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and promote the coordinated development of creative industries in the three places.
Macao Legislative Council member Lo Choi Yin said that in addition to enhancing the centripetal force and sense of identity of Hong Kong and Macao youths towards the motherland, and supporting Hong Kong and Macao youths to integrate into the overall development of the country and participate in national construction, the event also stimulated the innovation and creativity of young people in Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao, and promoted the coordinated development of the creative design industry in the three places.
Tong Haiyun, a judge of the Youth Entrepreneurship Competition and a scientific researcher at the Shenzhen Institute of Educational Sciences, highly praised the Youth Entrepreneurship Competition for providing a stage for young people in Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao to display their talents. As a judge of the two Youth Entrepreneurship Competitions, he believes that this competition has changed a lot compared with the previous one: first, the youth groups in the three places have a deep understanding of scientific and technological innovation, care about others, pay attention to the society, and imagine the future, and the children have many gratifying changes in scientific and technological innovation; Sharing platform, the participating students pay attention to life in this process, focus on solving problems in life, to a certain extent, cultivate the ability of teenagers to solve problems; third, in the context of the whole society advocating innovation, young people continue to exert creativity, which is very important to everyone, good ideas come from whether the contestants have insight into life, lack of insight, innovation and creativity can not be talked about, which requires the contestants to themselves, to life, to the country, have more attention and care.
Ou Junxuan, judge of the 2nd Youth Entrepreneurship Competition and Chairman of the Macau Designers Association, said: "The works submitted by the contestants are diverse in categories and forms, which fully demonstrates the innovative vitality and creativity of young people in the three places, and is conducive to promoting more frequent exchanges and exchanges between Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao. ”
Two judges from Hong Kong, teachers from the City University of Hong Kong, Yip Choi-fung and Lam Kin Ying, said: "The Youth Entrepreneurship Competition has increased the understanding of local culture among teachers and students in the three places, which is conducive to broadening the horizons, increasing knowledge and stimulating creative potential of young people in the three places. ”
It is reported that during the Shenzhen Design Week, the Organizing Committee of the Youth Innovation Competition will hold an exhibition of outstanding works. From May to August, a series of activities will be held, such as roving exhibitions in Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao, as well as youth exchange tours. At that time, teachers, students and parents of primary and secondary schools in Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao will have the opportunity to observe the works of the award-winning students offline, and communicate and share them with other parents and students.
Photo courtesy of Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macao Youth Creative Design Competition.