Outreach

The NASA international SpaceApps challenge is an annual 48 hours hackathon organized by NASA and local hosts around the globe. The challenge addresses the great challenges we are facing on Earth and in space by connecting NASA's data with coders, makers, designers and dreamers around the world. This year the hackathon will be held in Hong Kong for the first time at City University of Hong Kong on 18-20 October 2019. For details, please visit https://spaceapps.algebragame.app/#home.

Following the success of previous years' Challenges, the Department organized the 4th Computer Science Challenge 2019, which was a fun eSport-like game tournament for secondary school students to learn computer programming and also play to learn computer science and mathematics. The Challenge came to a successful conclusion on 27 April 2019 with the winning students attending the Award Presentation Ceremony and the lecture on Artificial Intelligence and computer science innovation at CityU.

The results, photos and videos of the Challenge are available on the Facebook Page and the event website. Happy viewing!

Computer Science Challenge (CSC) 2018 was a fun eSport-like game tournament for secondary school students to test their ability and knowledge in different areas of computer science and won attractive prizes. Students learnt computer programming and also played to learn computer science and mathematics. The Challenge was successfully held on Saturday, 26 May 2018 with participation of 212 students from 75 secondary schools.

The event was also warmly received by external major organizations and our industry partners with sponsorship from ASTRI, Everbest Technology Limited, Google (China & Hong Kong), Makeblock, UR Photos, Koding Kingdom and Hon. Charles Mok JP.

The results, photos and videos of the Challenge are available on the Facebook Page and the event website. Happy viewing!