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Report & Highlights from Jan-2019 Entries of “Element of the Month (Jan-2019) for *IYPT-2019(HK) {The 4th month} ... & ….< Notes about Coming “ Feb-2019 EOTM*” >

* IYPT-2019 = “International Year of Periodic Table ([pic]國際週期表年 )

◆ EOTM = “Element of the Month”

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The "International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements (IYPT2019)" has been proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly and UNESCO in 2017 as it is being considered as “A Common Language for Science” since its discovery by Dimitry Mendeleev in 1869. 2019 happens to be the 150th anniversary of the Periodic Table and deserves a year of celebration. It is one of the most significant achievements in science, capturing the essence not only of chemistry, but also of physics and biology. (…… from )

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Report on “Element of the Month Jan-2019” for IYPT-2019(HK) Competition

… details of the competition could be found at >Chem> EOTM [ “Element of the Month” ]

This is the fourth monthly entry of the EOTM-IYPT-2019(HK) competition and we just step into the new year 2019 – which denotes the proper onset of the “International Year of Periodic Table” as proclaimed by the UNESCO with the simultaneous celebration and memory of the 150th Anniversary of Mendeleev’s periodic law.

To our surprise, the number of entries has increased a bit even this is the exam-season with also a slight increase in the number of participating schools. Also, the overall standard of presentation remains high with some creative articles using formats that are different from the previous entries – for example, the calendar and dialogue format. This shows again that the means of communicating our knowledge with respect to different sectors is just limited by our imagination. Hence, with the support from the sponsorship, similar number of awards had been issued in this EOTM-IYPT-2019(HK)Jan-entry. As for “reason(s) of choosing the element for January”, most could relate this special season to “New Year”, “celebration”, “against loneliness”, .... – revealing that students could subsume other meanings in their academic studies.

All Jan-2019 entries of the competition have been finalized and the results are presented in the table below. For overall comments and highlights of the Jan-entries, please check the section after the results table. All other participants will receive a certificate of participation with a souvenir card [sample at end]. All data about this EOTM-IYPT2019(HK) competition will be compiled after April-2019 and be presented in a historical report to the International IYPT-2019. The report will also be published in the 2019 Hong Kong Science Teachers’ Journal. { Regulations of this competition could be found at }

Results of “Element of the Month Jan-2019 for IYPT-2019(HK) ” ….

|Award |Student (Level) |School |Element presented (Title^^) |

|Best presentation |Suen Hoi Ying Amanda |Maryknoll Convent School (Sec. |The Glowing Element – Neon (10) |

| |(F4) |Section) | |

|Outstanding award(#) |Rachel Kwok (F4) |St. Rose of Lima's College |Darmstadtium (Ds [110]) 2019 Newly Formed |

| | | |Boy Band |

|Outstanding award |Wong Ching Yi (F3) |Chiu Lut Sau Memorial Sec. School |The devil element: Phosphorus (15) |

|Outstanding award |Au Yeung Sum Wing (F3) |St. Paul’s Convent School |The Chemistry of Fireworks -- Rubidium |

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|Merit 1(#) award |Lai Ching Ue Elita (F3) |St. Paul’s Convent School |The Element under the Spotlight -- |

| | | |Praseodymium |

|Merit 1(#) award |Yip Hui Chi Gigi (F3) |St. Paul’s Convent School |The Modest Element – Neodymium |

|Merit 1(#) award |Wong Wing Yan (F3) |St. Paul’s Convent School |Titanium found its job |

|Merit 1(#) award |Kwok Harris Fung (F4) |Shau Kei Wan Government Sec. |Element Weekly Blog (Sb) |

| | |School | |

|Merit 1 award |Cheung Ka Ho (F4) |Shau Kei Wan Government Sec. |Breathe in ... Breathe out (O) |

| | |School | |

|Merit 1 award |Chiu Ki Sang (F4) |Shau Kei Wan Government Sec. |Super-heavy Element Orchestra member |

| | |School |Biography (Og [118]) |

|Merit 1 award |Ha Duy Linh |Delia Memorial School (Hip Wo) |Iron – a super-hero |

|Merit 1 award |Leung Wing Sze (F3) |CCC Heep Woh College |升起的煙火，從強光看？從形狀看？ (Al) |

|Merit 1 award |Wong Wing (F4) |St. Rose of Lima's College |The one and only one (H) |

|Merit 1 award |Tiffany Chan Cheuk Tsz (F4) |St. Rose of Lima's College |Calendar – Sodium |

|Merit 1 award |Chan Wing Yin (F5) |Chiu Lut Sau Memorial Sec. School |An important element that we should know – |

| | | |Molybdenum |

|Merit 1 award |Annabella Chun Wong (F3) |Chiu Lut Sau Memorial Sec. School |Silicon or Silicone? |

|Merit 1 award |Ye Hui Yi (F4) |YCH Lan Chi Pat Memorial Secondary|新年"鋅"氣象, 一切由"鋅"開始 |

| | |Sch. | |

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|Merit 2(#) award |Ng Lok Tung (F3) |St. Paul’s Convent School |Element of the Year 2018 – Argon |

|Merit 2(#) award |Liu Hiu Yan (F3) |CCC Heep Woh College |霓虹燈的奇妙之源---「氖」 |

|Merit 2 award |Mak Chin Ching (F3) |CCC Heep Woh College |Shall we be friends, Calcium? |

|Merit 2 award |Wu Tin Yan Tiffany (F4) |St. Rose of Lima's College |Monthly Science (K) |

|Merit 2 award |Kwok Jeng |Chiu Lut Sau Memorial Sec. School |Biscuit ... or Bismuth? |

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|Notes: | |

|(#) |Due to the high standard in the overall presentations, with the support of the sponsors, the number of merit awards |

| |have been raised. The merit awards are expanded with 2 levels – “Merit 1” will have a higher honour than “Merit 2”.|

|(^^) About “Title” of the |-- Some titles in the above table have been bold and highlighted. They are examples of brilliant ideas and some |

|articles & Insights to |with inspired creative HEADINGS to draw our attention about links between the study of the Periodicity and |

|Teachers for planning further |Applications with this EOTM & IYPT aims. Students and teachers should check the major essence of the IYPT-2019 when|

|related activities |drafting their articles in coming EOTM (still have Feb to Apr). Teachers may also have insights about how we could|

| |introduce elements and periodicity to students in our lessons and / or coming activities. Further, an overall Final|

| |Grand Report (after Apr-2019 entry) will be concluded with your students’ contribution and effort in making this |

| |International Celebration of IYPT a success. |

Congratulations to all award winners and thanks all teachers and students in supporting the event. The “Element of January for IYPT-2019(HK)” would thus be “Neon”.

As the activity is to encourage all teachers and students to participate in this meaningful and historical global celebration, all other participants will also have “Certificates of Participation” and their names will appear in the Final overall Report of IYPT-2019(HK) in the Association Journal (to be published in Aug/Sep-2019). The situation will be similar to the grand global celebration in IYC-2011 (IYC = International Year of Chemistry) in Hong Kong and around the World ().

The HKASME organizes this “Element of the Month for IYPT-2019(HK)” competition for Secondary School students for 7 months (from Oct-2018 to Apr-2019) is to catalyze and celebrate the IYPT-2019 in Hong Kong. We hope all participants could continue their sharing and have their zeal for scientific exploration continue to grow strong. Due date for the next Feb2019-entry is 15/2/2019. Encourage your students to take part in this remarkable and historical global scene and they could have their footprint stamped in their life portfolio.

>> More Updates -- from the IYPT-2019 .... ==> Check the Events ...

Hence, you and your students are encouraged to discover everything about IYPT2019 via the official website () and join the global celebrations! Stepping into 2019, more and more institutes have their IYPT-activities posted on the official website: Events Our EOTM-IYPT activity has also been registered. Though most local activities are limited to their academics and students, we could always learn from others and have similar activities drafted in our schools or communities. You are also reminded that you could initiate IYPT activities in your class, school or community to enrich and enhance your students’ learning horizon from local to global context. Please check the following channels for updates and changes. Such events could also fit in to your School’s STEM plans with interdisciplinary ideas.

IYPT2019 ; IYPT2019 ; IYPT2019

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Highlights from Jan-2019 Entries of EOTM for IYPT-2019(HK) …..

As the activity will continue for months up to Apr-2019, teachers and students may like to gain different ideas from the January participants. Below are some highlights from the Jan-EOTM-IYPT2019(HK) entries.

A) General performance and some screening issues in Jan-entries of EOTM(Jan)_IYPT-2019

In general, the quality and variety of presentation have improved over the months. Most students could highlight “selected” features of their chosen element in the presentation within a limited space (one A4) by using a wide range of communication formats. Yet some students still neglect the criteria in the screening in the following aspects:

1/ About the “Title” --> Still a few % did NOT give a meaningful / outstanding “Title”. This is to remind students (and teachers) that an attractive title could help them to focus on their research. Remember that “communication” is two-way. The title is also important for readers to gain insight before detail encounter.

2/ About the reason(s) for chosen element --> Though most had given reason(s) for the chosen element (and some are quite good), it is surprised that some had not included those reasons in their presentation ==> WHY the element serves to be the “Element of the Month (Jan for this entry)” !

Of course, some still could not give a remarkable reason for their choice – especially NOT linking their drafts to our competition title “Element of the Month (next month is Feb)”. Actually, hints had been given in previous report and in our Association News that “January” is a month of celebration – for “New Year”, for “New or Renew”, and / or any other related meanings they could attach to. Sometimes, the reasons may be personal due to their special life encounters. Hence, thinking about what the coming month “Feb-EOTM-2019” mean for you and / or science and have your chosen element fixed and linked. We are waiting for your more brilliant ideas in the course of scientific endeavour.

3/ About presentation --> For most, the format of presentation still follow the traditional list of properties and / or some normal figures. Actually, the list of title in the awards of this Month [Jan] (See Table above) showed that there are endless ways of presenting your ideas – e.g. “dialogue”, “portfolio”, “news report”, “calendar events”, “cartoon”, “blogs”, “contrasting links”, “peotic”, etc. Anyway, the limit of such formats is your imagination with your deeper thoughts in linking the elements with our daily life and scientific research. We are glad to see that students keep on trying different ways to present their ideas – especially those related to applications and sustainability.

Other than the formal page, students could also extend their presentation and communication with various other aspects on the page – that include: background figures, background and foreground colours, special logos / effects, .... etc. All such efforts could stimulate students’ learning with a multi-dimensional perspective that fits into the 21st Century Skills {creative expanded spaces – information / message could be delivered with “color”, “special logos”, etc... }. Teachers could really gain insights from such GOOD students’ presentations and enhance our way of presenting the instructional materials in our forth coming activities!

Of course, we would like to remind teachers and students again the major focus of this competition is the major themes of the IYPT-2019 proclamation – “mainly about the systematic science studies and contributions to development of the human race” plus our title “Element of the Month”.

As this is the fourth entry of the competition, some students had already learnt how to present the most outstanding features in order to have “most items” be included in a refined 2D-space. We would like to stress once again that the screening of the EOTM-IYPT is NOT JUST based on the article presented; that also involves the reason(s) and other meanings behind your chosen element for the month. We hope that this competition is NOT just a way for students and teachers to participate in such remarkable and historical international event; BUT ALSO hope students could practice and expand their 21st Century Skills areas – especially “in-depth thinking”, “creativity” and “communication skills” in this exercise!

B) Some statistics from the Jan-2019 entries – this will be cumulated and be presented in an overall report in our Teachers’ Journal in 2019.

(B-1) Participants’ study level – F.3 and below (41%), F.4 (33%), F.5 (22%), F.6 (4%)

Again, this competition has no limit to the level of participants as we believe that all F.1 to F.6 students could have the chance of presenting their ideas and they could learn on a needed base once they grasp the principle of the periodic system. You may notice that, compared with the previous entries, there is a significant % of increase in the lower forms. All we need is the appreciation of the beauty of the Periodic Table as a useful tool for scientific studies and how that could utilize elements to raise our standard of living in the material and spiritual world. And, some lower form articles are much better presented than the higher forms!

(B-2) Entries without “Title” = 16% …. Still quite a difficult issue for students and teachers?

(B-3) Entries without reason = 0% …. Yet, some just give a very vague reason. E.g. amazing, just like it, etc.

(B-4) Language presentation: 12% in Chinese …. This does not mean that Chinese presentation would be subordinate to those English. Yet, we must admit that most elements were first discovered in the Western World and that include the link to the naming and or study origin with language of that branch (e.g. Latin, Greek, … ). This not just expands our students’ horizon of study, but also allows them to explore more under such culture in the long history of the 150 years of the Periodic System.

(B-5) Chosen Elements:

Group |I |II |III |IV |V |VI |VII |VIII |T.M. | |% |18 |4 |4 |8 |8 |4 |4 |14 |32 | |

Again, this statistics is just for reference. There is no indication of any preference or encouraging different focus in choice of element for the competition. Afterall, the special features that students could think of depends on really what they could like to deliver to the audience and in part – be contributive to this remarkable year of IYPT-2019.

(B-6) Presentation style:

Similar to previous entries, many students have used both graphics and text in presenting their ideas. One “new” feature found in this Jan-entries is the “calendar format” as Jan could considered as the time for round up and planning. Anyway, the perspectives of presentation could be multi-level and multi-purpose – not just about the use of “words”, but could be a combination of word, graphics and / or setting of the page-frame, e.g. using different coloured letters and / or different style to represent something.

C) Note about coming entries – Still 3 months to go ... Feb, Mar and April.

(C-1) There will be different deadline for different months. There may be some minor changes for each month but the basic framework will not change – check the aims of the original IYPT-2019 proclamation. Hence, the regulations and submission form will be different for different month. The “Feb-2019” related documents will be posted online for use at . The deadline for February Submission is 15/2/2019 {after the Chinese New Year}.

(C-2) Please direct all entries and information, including the “submission form”, “students’ articles”, etc. to the email box : iypt2019@

(C-3) If you submit your entries after the deadline (e.g. 15/2 for Feb-Entry), your entry will be transferred to the next month (if available). Please keep note of the due date for each month’s entry.

(C-4) As February is the Month celebrating the Chinese New Year, would your students have their choices related to this special time of the Year? [pic] [pic]

Awaiting your further brilliant ideas for the Feb-entries for the EOTM-IYPT-2019(HK)!

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Celebrations of the IYPT in other parts of the World ...

e.g. MA*HA*TAT in Thailand --

MA*HA*TAT - The Exhibition (MA*HA*TAT-Is the thai name meaning "The Great element" at the same time "MA*HA" is meaning "Going to learn..." in this context is learning all elements by periodic table. This exhibition is located in Science Street by Childrens Day of Thailand. The exibition is about the Periodic table related to every day life presented by Panel, Object, Model, Multimedia and Hands-on exhibits.

For more events around the World – please go to



The Hong Kong event “Element of the Month” is also registered on this official site of IYPT.

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