bE inspired! Shaping Our City Tomorrow Competition 2024/25
Co-organised by Junior Achievement (JA) Hong Kong and Arup, the bE inspired! Program has been enhanced with the launch of the Shaping Our City Tomorrow Competition. This integrated innovation program is designed for Form 2 to 5 students and includes comprehensive workshops and outings led by Arup engineer volunteers, Engineering Education & Career Day for Parents, Video Production Workshop, mentorship and public showcase.
Shaping Our City Tomorrow Competition aims to inspire secondary students to unleash their creativity for our sustainable future and nurture their interest in engineering studies and careers.
Students will work in teams of 2 to 4 to create their own innovative solutions in the areas of Green Buildings, Green Transport, or Green Energy, presenting their ideas through a prototype and a 1-minute video.
Aims
Through this Shaping Our City Tomorrow Competition, students will:
- Understand different carbon reduction strategies to strive for carbon neutrality
- Design an innovative green solution to benefit the community
- Unleash their creativity, teamwork, presentation, and digital skills essential for their future
About Arup
Dedicated to sustainable development, Arup is a collective of designers, consultants and experts working globally. Founded to be humane and excellent, we collaborate with our clients and partners using imagination, technology, and rigour to shape a better world.
Arup opened its Hong Kong office in 1976. Today our influence can be seen and felt everywhere in Hong Kong, from its tallest building to its longest bridge, at the airport gateway and through a large share of its sophisticated railway networks, to providing solutions for smart, sustainable buildings and planning the next-generation towns that will equip the city for the future.
For more information, please visit: www.arup.com.
About Junior Achievement Hong Kong
Junior Achievement (JA) is dedicated to inspiring and preparing young people to succeed in the global economy, through our applied learning programs in career readiness, entrepreneurship and financial health.
JA HK is one of the 100+ members of JA Worldwide, and a leading provider of Other Learning Experiences in Hong Kong. Our programs enable young people to learn the world of work from the first-hand experience of business volunteers. Since our establishment in 2001, we have engaged the support of over 32,000 business volunteers from some 700 companies to serve more than 480,000 students from over 600 schools.
For more information, please visit: www.jahk.org.
