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Eight talented secondary school students from Hong Kong achieved excellent results at the 24th Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO 2024) held in Malaysia from 3-10 June 2024. The Hong Kong APhO team members were Chan Hoi-chi (Hong Kong Chinese Women's Club College), Edison Fu (Queen's College), Leung Chi-fung (Evangel College), Liu Lincoln (Sha Tin College) Matthew Mui (The Hong Kong Sze Yap Commercial and Industrial Association Wong Tai Shan Memorial College), Marcus Poon (Po Leung Kuk Choi Kai Yau School), Michael Tang (St. Joseph's College), and Yan King-yiu (Queen Elizabeth School). Competing among over 200 students from 27 countries or cities, the team won one gold medal (Liu), three silver medals (Leung, Fu, Yan), two bronze medals (Mui, Tang), and two honourable mentions (Chan, Poon), and was ranked 8th among all teams at the competition. The team was trained and mentored this year by Dr.

The 2023 Hang Lung Mathematics Awards (“HLMA”), co-organized by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (“HKUST”) and Hang Lung Properties Limited (“Hang Lung Properties”), announced this year’s winners recently. Kyan CHEUNG Ka-Hin and Ethan SOH Jon-Yi from Harrow International School Hong Kong received the Gold Award for their research report titled “On the Properties of the Semigroup Generated by the RL Fractional Integral”. MOK Chun-Hei and WONG Hei from S.K.H. Tsang Shiu Tim Secondary School and TAM Hei-Tung from HKUGA College won the Silver Award and the Bronze Award, respectively. They demonstrated exceptional problem-solving abilities and creativity in tackling complex mathematical problems.

HKUST and Tramplus  have signed a cooperation agreement for the launch of a special STEM education program for local primary and secondary school students.  

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Tsz Hin CHAN from Pui Ching Middle School received the Gold Award for his research report titled “On Non-Torsion Solutions of Homogeneous Linear Systems over Rings” at the 2021 Hang Lung Mathematics Awards. The Scientific Committee noted that Tsz Hin’s research report was at postgraduate level and demonstrated outstanding logical thinking and analytical ability. On Ki LUO from Pui Ching Middle School and Wai Lok LAI from St. Paul’s Co-educational College won the Silver Award and the Bronze Award, respectively. Together with the five Honorable Mentions of equal ranking, HK$1 million in prize money will be shared among winning students, and their teachers and schools, in recognition of their mathematics research projects that meet the highest academic standards in terms of methodology, research, and scholarship. 

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