Hong Kong and Macau Inter-secondary School Straw Airplane Competition
We would like to invite you to cover the following event:
Event: Hong Kong and
Date: 22 April 2007 (Sunday)
Time and venue: Competition and interview with award winners
3:30 pm at Chan Tai Ho Multi-purpose Hall, 5/F,
Closing Ceremony
Officiating Guests: Mrs Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee, Chairperson of Board of Governors, Savantas Policy Institute
Mr Sam Chow Kim-fung, Curator, Development Unit,
Over 1,000 secondary school students will participate in the Inter-school Straw Airplane Competition organized by City University of Hong Kong (CityU) this Sunday. They will use straws and other materials to design and construct airplanes which will be launched from a designated runway. The one that flies the furthest wins.
You are welcome to attend the testing session in the afternoon. Professor Henry Chung Shu-hung, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering, and Dr Shek Chan-hung, Associate Professor of the Department of Physics and Materials Science, and student representatives will talk about the highlights of the competition. Winners of the junior and senior groups will meet with the media to talk about their winning designs.
Note: All competing teams will build their straw airplanes in the morning of 22 April. For arrangements for covering this production session, please contact the Communications Office at CityU in advance.
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For media enquiries, please contact Zoey Tsang on 2788 9411 or 9550 1503, Communications Office, City University of Hong Kong.