14 Jul 2021 - 29 Oct 2021

SciTech Challenge 2021

Application Deadline: 9 July 2021

​Contestant Briefing: 24 June 2021

SciTech Challenge is HKSTP’s annual competition open for innovators to pitch and demonstrate their ideas, products and solutions to various industry end-users.

In 2021, the theme of SciTech Challenge is “Technology Enabled by Voice” with Cantonese as the language. With voice-assistants, users can now speak and interact with their appliances like mobile, home appliances, gaming, social networking, or even more. There are endless opportunities!

Open Group

  • Contestants can be enrolled either as an individual or a team.

Student Group

  • Contestants can be enrolled either as an individual or a team.

  • Contestants must be full-time students.

  • Open for all students from universities, community colleges or secondary schools.

Set of resources provided for participants
  • ~​100 hours Cantonese voice data, on Banking, Finance Service and Investment (BFSI) domain

  • Automatic speech recognition (ASR) API

  • Workshops

  • Mentorship (for the top 16 teams only)