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| Left to right: Ling-Wen Ting, Mei-Lin Chen, Szu-Yu Mo |
The International Sustainable
World Energy, Engineering, and Environment Project Olympiad (I-SWEEEP) welcomed
qualified high school student participants from around the world to join its Awards
Ceremony and projects exhibition during the week of April 28 to May 4, 2014 at
the George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas.
The I-SWEEEP was launched in year
2008 aiming at bringing together brightest students with extraordinary academic
performances in math and science from around the world to Houston to present their
projects that are focused on sustainability for a better future in a global competition,
in which projects must associate with energy, engineering, and environment. Qualified
projects are determined by regional science fair organizations as well as of
that nationally and internationally before the award ceremony invitations were
sent to winning participants, who will be recognized at the I-SWEEEP Awards
Ceremony, receive awards, and showcase their projects during the event.
Sixty six (66) countries with a total of three hundred and eighty five (385)
highly qualified projects participated in the epic academic competition of I-SWEEEP
2014 from around the world; the number of participants was summed up to five
hundred and fifty six (556) students along with two hundred and fifty eight (258)
teachers including three extremely intelligent high school girls from Taiwan, Ling-Wen
Ting of Taipei First Girls High School, and Mei-Lin Chen, and Szu-Yu Mo of
National Taichung Girl’s Senor High School, who were standing out with their remarkable
projects focused on the Engineering category titled “Synergistic effects of
external factors on reprogramming of insulin-producing cells”, and on the Energy
category titled “New Green Energy - A Microbial Fuel Cell Based On Iron
Chlorophyll”.
Leading by the Director of the Experiment Division of the National Taiwan
Science Education Center (NTSEC), Mr. Chung-Chu Chiang, and the projects instructor,
Ms. Wen-Juain Lin, three Taiwanese high school girls, Ting, Chen, and Mo landed
in Houston on April 30, 2014 with high expectations they had been carried along
the way the moment they were pre-selected among the best of their peers and registered
for the competition.
After a few glimpses of the Houston City, the Chinese Taipei representative
group suited up for the I-SWEEEP Award Ceremony on May 4, 2014. With all the
hard works and intelligence flows, the sounds of triumph ringing upon the three
young minds of Taiwan with two projects that were proudly awarded two Bronze
Medals and one Special Award, recognized by the organization, Houston Urban
Network for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (HUNSTEM Award) for
their innovative projects in Engineering and Energy categories on the Award Ceremony.
Shortly after the winning list announcement
of the I-SWEEEP Awards, the Education Division of the Taipei Economic and
Cultural Office in Houston was on behalf of Dr. Wei-Ling Chiang, the Minister of the
Ministry of Education of Taiwan congratulating these three distinguished high
school girls who had made their hometown Taiwan exceptionally proud by standing
out from such a competitive competition internationally.
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| Left to right: Ling-Wen Ting, Mei-Lin Chen, Szu-Yu Mo |
May 19, 2014│Isabelle Chen
Education Division, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Houston