【Event Recap】micro:bit Model Rocket Car Competition 2020-2021
The micro:bit Model Rocket Car Competition, the renowned STEAM event has come to a fabulous close this year! Over 1,500 students and nearly 500 teams from 17 primary schools and 48 secondary schools have participated in this year's competition despite the pandemic. Indeed, no force was big enough to distract our students' aspirations to learn and innovate, and ours to push for an ever-exciting educational programme.
Special thanks to our co-organisers Ju Ching Chu Secondary School (Tuen Mun) and Aberdeen Technical School which hosted our qualifying stage and final respectively.
Qualifying Stage
With a tremendous number of teams this year, the qualifying stage took place on professional live streaming to ensure our participants’ health and safety were well taken care of. Six race tracks were set up and a total of 465 rocket cars, from the Hong Kong, Kowloon, New Territories East and New Territories West districts, were fired in the 9-hour course of intense capture! Although there weren’t any seats onsite, we were certain that the excitement of the gunpowder ignition surprised each and every teacher, student and parent sitting by the screen!
Final
Finalists had to come together and crafted their streamlined rocket car within the time constraint. It was the best time to demonstrate their STEM knowledge and teamwork! After the hands-on building and inspection session, all rocket cars were put to race on 4 tracks, and all participants witnessed the wonderful scene of launching the rocket cars on the spot! Finally, the champion team of the primary school group and the secondary school group won their title with a record of 24.4 milliseconds and 22.5 milliseconds respectively. What was unexpected was that the champion, the first runner-up and the second runner-up of the respective groups were both from the same school. We can imagine these two schools must have spent a lot of effort in the school curriculum to achieve this success!
Winner List
Primary School Group
🥇Champion：Sha Tau Kok Central Primary School ─ STKCPS-2
🥈The First Runner Up：Sha Tau Kok Central Primary School ─ STKCPS-10
🥉The Second Runner Up：Sha Tau Kok Central Primary School ─ STKCPS-3
Secondary School Group
🥇Champion：Ng Wah Catholic Secondary School ─ Speeder 2311
🥈The First Runner Up：Ng Wah Catholic Secondary School ─ 榴蓮一號
🥉The Second Runner Up：Ng Wah Catholic Secondary School ─ 伍華夢想號
Check out the results, rankings and award list of the qualifying round and final here!
Watch the qualifying round here if you have missed it before!
“My Favourite Rocket Car” Design Competition
To highlight the development of students' creativity and artistic potential, we also held the "My Favorite Rocket Car" design competition on Trumptech's official Facebook page, and the teams with the highest number of votes can obtain the "My Favorite Rocket Car" Design Award.The list of winners is as below:
Primary School Group
🏅TWGHs Hong Kong and Kowloon Electrical Appliances Merchants Association Limited School ─ 銀河系五號
🏅TWGHs Hong Kong and Kowloon Electrical Appliances Merchants Association Limited School ─ 子彈
🏅CCC Kei Wa Primary School (Kowloon Tong) ─ 閃電號
🏅CCC Kei Wa Primary School (Kowloon Tong) ─ AF-1
🏅Taoist Ching Chung Primary School ─ 彩虹箭車
Secondary School Group
🏅Hong Kong Chinese Women's Club College ─ Rocket of fantasy
🏅St. Stephen's Girls' College ─ Dreamer
🏅St. Stephen's Girls' College ─ FAITH
🏅Queen Elizabeth School Old Students' Association Secondary School ─ 湖中的毛鱗魚
🏅Queen Elizabeth School Old Students' Association Secondary School ─ 隼號
Events Highlights
Check out the event photos to feel the excitement of the competition! 【CLICK HERE】
