Held at Learning & Teaching Expo 2026, the Hong Kong AI+ GIS Youth Challenge 2026: Shaping a Smarter City encouraged students to combine geography, data science and AI+ GIS to develop innovative solutions for a smarter and more sustainable Hong Kong. 

The Hong Kong Academy for Gifted Education captured both the Champion and 1st Runner-up titles. The Champion team’s project, “Investigation on Soil Erosion and Landslide in Nature,” also received the Best Use of GeoAI Award and Outstanding Smart City Solution Award. Its 1st Runner-up team presented “Targeted Heat Mitigation in Ageing Urban Districts Powered by GeoAI” (「Boiling舊區：GeoAI 驅動的精準抗熱行動」) which received the Best Innovative Award.

Kowloon Sam Yuk Secondary School was named 2nd Runner-up “Finding the Vanishing Greenery: Heatstroke Risk Areas and Community Climate Refuges under the Urban Heat Island Effect” (「尋找消失的綠意－熱島效應下的中暑高危區和社區氣候避難所」)  which also won the Data Visualization Award. Other honors went to HKUGA College with a Merit Award, Shatin Pui Ying College with the Sustainability Champion Award, and Po Leung Kuk Ngan Po Ling College as the Most Active Participation School.

More GIS competitions are planned for the coming years. Stay tuned.

The Champion team from the Hong Kong Academy for Gifted Education with officiating guests Prof. Qihao Weng (fifth from left), Chair Professor of Geomatics and Artificial Intelligence and Global STEM Scholar, Department of Land Surveying and Geospatial Science, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Hon Dennis Leung Tsz-wing, MH (third from right), Member of the Legislative Council.

Students, teachers and judges gathered for a group photo at the event, celebrating students’ achievements and the use of GIS in education.

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