• The theme of the Competition is “5G x AI – Smart Living and Learning Anytime Anywhere”.
• The seamless integration of 5G and AI realises personalised and immersive smart living experiences. For example, with 5G connectivity, AI-powered sensors and cameras can comprehensively monitor various aspects of the communities, such as air quality, traffic conditions, and waste management. Through this advanced monitoring, communities are transformed into smart, sustainable ecosystems fostering a more environmental friendly and efficient living environment. Also, the intelligent tutoring systems supported by AI and 5G can realise personalised feedback and adaptive learning paths, offering innovative learning and teaching opportunities.
• Participating teams are required to design a project, which includes the development of a mobile application that integrates AI technologies with 5G services, to enhance the smartness of the campus, the community in the neighbourhood and/or daily living environments to achieve smart learning and living, anytime and anywhere.
• Each team’s final submission should include a mobile application and/or relevant prototype incorporating AI technologies with 5G services.
• The competition consists of two rounds. In the first round, participating teams are required to submit a project proposal outlining their ideas for review by the judging panel. In the final round, the shortlisted teams are required to complete their work according to the project proposal, and give an oral presentation of their submitted work before the judging panel.

• Schools should participate on a team basis. Each participating school can nominate a maximum of two teams to join the Competition.
• Each team should consist of three to five students and one teacher as the leader.
• Participating students must be full-time secondary school students in the 2024/25 academic year.
• The entries should illustrate how the project integrates AI technologies with 5G services, to achieve one or more of the following key objectives:
  • Enriching campus life and improving learning experience
  • Enhancing teaching resources
  • Improving nearby community environment or facilities
  • Realising smart living
• The idea and content of the entries must conform to the theme of the Competition. Participants must ensure that their entries are original and have not been submitted previously for participation in any other types of similar activities or competitions.
• Each participating team can only submit one entry.
• Immediate family members of the employees of OFCA or HKPC are not allowed to participate in the Competition.
• Schools and participants must ensure that their entries do not contain any materials that are obscene, violent, pornographic, defamatory, indecent, disparaging, discriminatory or contents that are controversial and inappropriate, and do not violate the laws of the HKSAR and constitute or cause danger to national security, otherwise the participating team will be disqualified.
• The Organiser reserves the right to amend the rules, terms and conditions, contents, and arrangement of the Competition at any time without prior notice to the participants.
• The Organiser reserves the right to disqualify any participating team at any time. Should there be any dispute, the Organiser shall reserve the right of final decision.
• Decision made by the judging panel for the finalists shall be final. Any objection to the results and awards of the Competition will not be accepted.

• All participating teams are required to submit their project proposals by 26 July 2024 (Friday) 23:59 (HKT) via email to 5g.competition@hkpc.org. The submissions should cover:
  • Design concept
  • Problem statement
  • How the design can achieve smart learning and/or smart living
  • Applications of 5G and AI technologies
  • Implementation Plan
• All submissions should be in PowerPoint or PDF format of no more than 20 slides, written either in English or Chinese.
• If necessary, teams can submit a short video of no more than 3 minutes in MP4 format to demonstrate its ideas according to the project proposal.
• The judging panel will shortlist 10 entries based on the following selection criteria:

The following 10 school teams have been shortlisted by the first round judging panel to compete in the final round (listed in alphabetic order of the school names):

• All finalist teams are eligible to request assistance for purchasing materials essential for developing the final products and demonstrating their ideas at the Final Judging Session, up to HK$3,000 per team.
• Interested teams are required to submit a list of materials, including reference prices and suppliers by 23 August 2024 (Friday) 23:59 (HKT) via email to 5g.competition@hkpc.org, for a one-off purchase. Request received after the deadline will not be accepted.
• The distribution of the requested items will take place within four to six weeks after the deadline.