Setting STEM Knowledge to Work in Soccer Robot Workshops

Participants go into action at a pilot workshop. [Download Photo]

The Academy for Bright Future Young Engineers, under the School of Engineering (SENG), held two well-received soccer robot workshops for secondary school students in January 2022 as part of its new Bright Future Cup – Soccer Robot Competition.

At the workshops, students from Tseung Kwan O Government Secondary School set science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) knowledge and skills to work to devise game-playing robots in HKUST’s Undergraduate Student-initiated Experiential Learning Lab (USEL Lab). Last summer, pilot workshops involving junior and senior secondary school students from a total of seven schools were successfully held. A grand final bringing together teams from various schools is targeted to take place in July 2022.

In 2021, Prof. Roy CHUNG, Founder of the Bright Future Charitable Foundation, donated a further HK$5 million for the Academy’s daily operations and soccer robot contest. Among its goals, the Academy seeks to inspire young people’s interest in engineering and build connections with SENG students.

This story was originally published in the SENG In Focus magazine (Spring 2022 edition, issue 34, P.8).