This year, the Hong Kong Flower Show will be held in a brand-new format. To tie in with the event, the Hong Kong Science Museum will present “Exploring Flowers with Five Senses” exhibition in our permanent exhibition hall, to let visitors explore the wonderful flower world with five senses. Why are there hidden patterns on some flowers? How do flowers protect themselves? Do plants emit sound? How can we extend the life of fresh flowers? How do we utilize the flower fragrance in the daily applications? The exhibition will answer all these questions through a series of interactive exhibits. Besides, interesting plants will be displayed. Visitors are invited to explore the mysteries of flower and the nature with all five senses during the exhibition period.

The website will display the video of the STEAM@Soybean project, introducing knowledge and technology about soybeans, allowing the public to understand the importance of soybeans, and how to utilise soybeans in STEAM education.

This workshop will introduce application of new technologies for inspection and monitoring of marine facilities and make use of a mini-wave tank to demonstrate some wave phenomena.

Ocean Park is organising a brand-new education programme, “Ocean Park Conservation Chill Club” throughout 2020 and 2021. The programme introduces local conservation work from technology, artistic and sustainability aspects based on three protected species in Hong Kong, namely Golden Birdwing, Green Turtle and Acropora Corals. Hundred of secondary schools and university students are invited to participate in a series of STEAM competitions, biodiversity workshops and conservation activities under the entitled programme. With the unique experience of interdisciplinary and self-directed learning, youths will be able to engage, plan and promote conservation industry locally in an innovative way with advanced technology. 

Through organising seminars during HK SciFest 2021, Ocean Park hopes to let the public know more about our contribution to conservation throughout the years, including the management of butterfly garden, green sea turtle rescue and coral restoration. Meanwhile, examples will be given to introduce new technologies applying in conservation industry. 

Through this short video, we will introduce different types of igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks and metamorphic rocks that can be seen in Hong Kong.

The combination of the hilly terrain and the high seasonal rainfall makes Hong Kong particularly prone to landslides. This talk first reviews the landslide history of Hong Kong, then discusses the causes of landslides and finally introduces the measures to reduce landslide risk under the Slope Safety System in Hong Kong. This talk also aims at fostering public understanding and promoting public awareness of the landslide risks in Hong Kong and reducing the consequences of landslides by promoting personal precautionary measures during heavy rain.

The programme introduces the design and scientific concepts of Hong Kong Western and Chinese green buildings as case studies in STEM Education.

This programme will showcase the Fun Machine Learning projects of students from two primary schools.

One Stroke Drawing
Through mechanical learning, we can know whether the pattern you draw can be completed in one stroke. Try to compare with the teacher's mathematical method to see if the artificial intelligence is smarter!

Facial Emotion Detection
Students took photos of many facial expressions to train artificial intelligence to determine whether you are now happy, angry, sad or delighted.

Want to conduct scientific experiments with children at home? How should materials be prepared? Are you worried that the experiment is too complicated and difficult? This activity mainly introduces STEM hand-on activities suitable for primary school students to experience at home.

This programme introduces how junior secondary school students conduct STEM hand-on activities at home, and use daily necessities to demonstrate interesting scientific experiments and explore different scientific principles.

The programme introduces the relationship between technology and biological structures, including the design and scientific concepts, as case studies in STEM Education.

BBC micro:bit Maker Challenge 2021 is a STEM activity focusing on the creative development of mechanical design, assembly and programming, which enables participants to unleash their infinite creativity according to the design theme. Through a simple entry method, they can participate in this activity in a relaxing way and experience the fun of mechanical programming science, so as to foster the pursuit of science knowledge among the general public. This programme will showcase the outstanding works of the competition.

Supported by the Knowledge Exchange Fund of The University of Hong Kong, this lecture will showcase the research on panoramic photography survey on the usage of external lighting.

Since 2014, our team has been applied a cutting-edge technique named ''virtopsy'' on local Cetacean Stranding Investigation. This technique was later extended to the research on stranded sea turtle since 2019. This technique enhances better understanding and gives insights into health conditions and life history of the stranded aquatic animals, and their injuries and deaths caused by human interactions. The collected data enables assessment of aquatic animals' health and provides an important reference to the development of a unique centralised database and long-term strategies for conservation of aquatic animals. Such a complete ecosystem indicator may eventually support the conservation and policy decision for all oceans, leading to an "One Ocean-One Health" paradigm.

Cetaceans are believed to be effective sentinels for ocean and human health given their many unique natural attributes. Aquatic Animal Virtopsy Lab studies cetaceans as part of a multi-pronged effort to understand their lives and deaths. For example, revisiting their life stories through virtopsy and necropsy. Our team collects and catalogues the bones of stranded cetaceans, which give the dead animals a second life, for revealing subtle differences between populations, as well as anomalies and pathologies among individuals. In this workshop, through prior preparation of simple materials, and participation in our online live broadcast, participants will experience the cooperative learning using simulation to achieve bone preparation procedures, and the art of skeletal specimen articulation. The workshop will explain the implications of skeletal specimen and how we could find out the life history and potential cause of death of the deceased cetacean with the specimen. The threats they are facing in Hong Kong waters will also be discussed. Cetaceans lovers, don't miss out!

Do you know the secret of soil? Soil can be classified into different particle sizes, and soil property is related to its particle size distribution. Using sieves with suitable apertures, we can resolve the secret. Come to join this soil laboratory experiment!

【Learn in Different Ways】 Learning journey will become fun by integrating technology into education. Hong Kong Education City (EdCity) will organise the ‘Innovative eLearning Journey’ Parent-kid Online Workshop. In this workshop, parents and kids will experience Artificial Intelligence (AI) gamified learning with innovative resources and tools, including self-learning platform with AI speech recognition system for strengthening English listening and speaking skills, as well as making a smart robot application with translation and object recognition function. 

Participants could also explore the possibilities of future education, and know more about how technologies such as AI or Big Data, change the education norm and enhance learning effectiveness. Parents should accompany their kids to join this workshop. Each participant is recommended to use a desktop/laptop with internet access during the workshop.

Today's urbanites are under tremendous pressure in life. Which simple stretching can relieve physical and mental stress? Although it is a simple extension, it contains a lot of health science knowledge. The student health ambassadors of the Lingnan University will share with you some tips, including the benefits of stretching at home and safety precautions. There are also exercises in this activity. Let's do warm-up exercises and home stretching for each major muscle together.

The STEAM music workshop is designed for children with their accompanying parents to enjoy music making through the application of electronic building blocks. Dr. Leung Chi Hin, Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural and Creative Arts, The Education University of Hong Kong, will serve as the guest speaker of the workshop.