Put on your thinking cap for competition
The ThinkQuest International Competition 2011, sponsored by the Oracle Education Foundation, is now open to teams of students.
The competition challenges students to solve a real-world problem by applying their critical thinking, communication, and technology skills.
This year, the foundation has introduced two new events. Participants can enrol for ThinkQuest Projects, Digital Media or Application Development.
In the ThinkQuest Projects event, teams will produce Web-based learning projects.
For the Digital Media category, participants will use digital media to produce a blog/journal, website, animation, public service announcement, photo essay, video, or some combination of these items.
In the Application Development section, students will create a Web-based application or game using their choice of programming language from a selected list.
Oracle has appointed two Hong Kong institutions as partners for this year's ThinkQuest. They are the Pui Ching Academy and the Hong Kong Association for Computer Education.
Teams have until April 27 next year to submit their entries.
Professional educators from around the world will judge all entries.
Qualifying entries will be published in the ThinkQuest Library, the world's largest online archive of student-developed learning projects that is visited by millions of learners each month.
Prizes include laptop computers, a trip to ThinkQuest Live in San Francisco, and grants.
More than 4,700 teams from 83 countries took part in the last competition.
The competition aims to 'inspire students to think, connect, create and share', according to Wilson Ho, managing director of Oracle Hong Kong.
The organisers hope the participants will use technology to help create a better society.
