Beyond Your Campus Competition 2021-2022

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About the Competition

Background

Organised by the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (HKIS), “Beyond Your Campus” Competition 2021-2022 aims at encouraging students to explore their campus and the surrounding community and allow them to express their creativity by designing an ideal environment for their campus and its surrounding community.

The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (HKIS) is composed of more than 10,000 members, including over 7,000 corporate members. HKIS work includes setting professional services and performance standards, establishing codes of ethics, determining requirements for admission as professional surveyors, and encouraging members to upgrade skills through continuing professional development. HKIS also performs a consultative role in government policy making and on issues affecting the profession.

Competition Objective

Encourage students to explore the characteristics of their own campus and its surrounding community

Enhance the younger generation’s understanding of the role of surveyors in city development

Encourage students to demonstrate their creativity by designing an ideal school campus and its surrounding community from surveyors’ perspective

Educate the younger generation about the importance of sustainable development in Hong Kong

Competition Requirements


To better prepare students for the competition, all contestants are required to attend the workshops to familiarize themselves with the work scope of surveyors from different disciplines. After the workshop, contestants are required to create and demonstrate their ideal campus and the surrounding community, and to project the area from surveyors’ point of view.

* More details of the competition will be announced in the briefing session of “Beyond Your Campus” Competition 2021-2022 (to be held on 8 January 2022).

Eligibility

● All students from secondary schools (F.4 – F.6) in the academic year 2021/22.
● Entries are welcomed on either an individual basis or via school application. If the contestants apply via school, both contestants and the school will be granted a certificate of participation.
● Numbers of entries from participating schools are not restricted.
● Entries can be submitted by individual or a group of a maximum of 4 students.
● No fee shall be charged for entering the competition.

Entry Format

Contestants are required to submit the following materials by 18:00, 30 June 2022 (Friday) to the online submission form.

(1) To encourage creativity and innovative thinking, the formats of the competition entry could be very diverse. Contestants are required to submit their entries for the 8 minutes presentation at the Finalist Presentation via online submission form. Entry formats including, but not limited to:

  • I. Presentation slide and word entries
    Electronic format in .pdf formats
  • II. Physical Display (2D/ 3D)
    Electronic format in .pdf, .jpg, .mp4 formats
  • III. Performance
    Electronic format in .mp4, .mp3 formats
  • IV. Multimedia
    Electronic format in .mp4, .mp3 formats

(2) Project Report (in Chinese or English) to illustrate how the design concept demonstrates your ideal campus and its surrounding community, and how the design shows the works of a surveyor.

Judging Criteria

● To understand different aspects in developing a campus and the surrounding community
● Ability to demonstrate the elements of surveyors’ scope of work*
● Effectiveness of Presentation
● Creativity and Innovation
● Ability to demonstrate the idea of sustainability

* Details to be introduced in the Competition Briefing

Awards
All winning individuals and teams will be awarded with prizes in the Award Ceremony.
Champion

Trophy + Certificate + HK$6,000 Cash Coupon

1st Runner Up

Trophy + Certificate + HK$4,000 Cash Coupon

2nd Runner Up

Trophy + Certificate + HK$2,000 Cash Coupon

Creativity Award

Trophy + Certificate + HK$1,000 Cash Coupon

Merit Award

Certificate + HK$500 Cash Coupon

* A Certificate of Participation will be granted to all candidates who completed the competition in recognition of their participation.
* Value of prizes will be the same irrespective of whether the winning entry is a group of work or submitted by individual entrant.

Event Schedule

Online Application Form Submission

Before 18:00, 10 December 2021

Competition Briefing

8 January 2022

# Competition Workshops

March to May 2022

Online Entry Submission

18:00, 30 June 2022

* Jury Assessment Presentations

28 August 2022

Award Presentation Ceremony

24 September 2022

# Successful applicants will receive an invitation to attend the briefing session and workshops. For terms and conditions, please refer to online application form for details.
* Contestants failing to join the jury assessment presentations will be disqualified.

Organiser

Silver Sponsors

Bronze Sponsors

Special Acknowledgement

Supporting Organisations