IVE students representing Hong Kong excel at APICTA Awards
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Mr Yang met the IVE teams today (10 December), following their outstanding achievement in coming through against 25 other entrants from Asia to win Merit prizes in the Tertiary Student Project Category.
Students WONG Ka-lok, Gloria LAU, CHAN Kong-sing and Roy LAU of the Higher Diploma in Cloud and Data Centre Administration programme of IVE (Lee Wai Lee) developed the winning work ‘Marking Accelerator’, while Catherine CHOW, FONG Ka-sin, LAM Wing-yi, and Rebekah LEE of the Higher Diploma in Software Engineering programme won the prize with their work ‘Smart Schoolbag’. Part of the winning team joined a gathering hosted by Mr Yang in the company of Government Chief Information Officer Allen YEUNG at Chief Government Office today to share their winning experience.
In April this year, the two teams received the Best Student Invention Award (Tertiary and Post-graduate) Gold and Bronze prizes respectively in the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2014 and hence were eligible to enter the APICTA Awards regional competition, representing Hong Kong. Again IVE teams won awards, testifying to their excellence.
The innovative work, Marking Accelerator, developed by IVE Higher Diploma in Cloud and Data Centre Administration students, is a management system that improves teachers’ handling of time-consuming and repetitive tasks such as proofreading and data entry. Making use of iCloud technology and Big Data Services research, the system can re-arrange the order of marking sequences and allow teachers to mark same-subject questions simultaneously. It can also summarise similar answers from students, enabling teachers to identify plagiarism. Scheduled for roll-out early next year, the trial version of the system will be promoted to secondary and primary school for teachers to use with a view to permanently introducing the concept and enhancing teaching efficiency.
Meanwhile “Smart Schoolbag” is the innovative work of a team of students from IVE Higher Diploma in Software Engineering programme. A tablet is installed in the schoolbag, which offers the function of automatic verification, reminder and location tracking. Smart Schoolbag can check if children have packed all textbooks in accordance with their timetables. Parents can locate their children by the real time global location system and the strap-mounted camera.
APICTA Awards
The Asia Pacific ICT Alliance Awards (APICTA Awards) is an international awards program organized by APICTA and initiated by Multimedia Development Corporation in Malaysia in 2001, which aims to increase ICT awareness in the community and assist in bridging the digital divide. By providing networking and product benchmarking opportunities to ICT innovators and entrepreneurs in the region, the program is designed to stimulate ICT innovation and creativity, promote economic and trade relations, facilitate technology transfer, and offer business matching opportunities via exposure to venture capitalists and investors.
Members of APICTA include 16 economies: Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, China, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Macau S.A.R, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Nepal. APICTA member-economies take turns in hosting the annual Awards Program. Hong Kong has taken part in APICTA since 2001 and teams have performed well over these years.
Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education
The Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (IVE) is a member of the VTC Group. The nine IVE campuses are located across the territory. Together they provide vocational education for secondary graduates as well as people in employment. IVE courses leading to the award of higher diploma and Diploma of Foundation Studies cover various academic disciplines including Applied Science; Business Administration; Childcare, Elderly and Community Services; Design; Information Technology; Engineering; as well as Hotel, Service and Tourism Studies. Website: www.ive.edu.hk
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