From August 12 to 14, the 2022 Youth "Zero-Carbon Future" Science Challenge Invitational was held in Beijing, with 30 teachers and students from Tsinghua University High School, Beijing Bayi School, Tianjin Nankai High School, and Tianjin No. 20 Middle School participating.
The 2022 Youth "Zero-Carbon Future" Science Challenge Invitational is an environmental science competition for high school students, co-organized by the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences and Tsinghua University School of Environment, and co-hosted by Tsinghua University High School and the journal Environmental Ecology. The event aims to promote low-carbon and zero-carbon development concepts among young people, encourage them to pursue a career in achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals through technological innovation, and better discover teenagers with a passion for science and potential for research.
Group Photo at the Opening Ceremony
Opening Speech
Chen Yongmei, Director of the Science Popularization Department of the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, delivering a speech at the opening ceremony
Xi Jinying, School Council Vice Chairman, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, delivering a speech at the opening ceremony
Xu Wenbing, Vice President of the Tsinghua University High School, delivering a speech at the opening ceremony
Challenge Process
The competition featured an innovative assessment mode, using “random grouping,” “thematic tasks,” and “time-limited completion” to comprehensively assess the contestants’ basic concepts and qualities of innovation, rapid learning and application abilities, and hands-on practice and experimental abilities. Task assignments were presented in the form of lectures and rule explanations, providing inspiration for the participants to understand the challenge tasks.
Zhang Da, Associate Professor of the Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy at Tsinghua University, giving a lecture on the competition
Xu Chenyang, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, explaining the rules of the competition
Participants communicating
The first team experimenting
The third team discussing research scheme
The third team measuring for acquiring data
Defense and scoring
Each team reporting and defending
Judges asking questions and scoring
Contestants defending
The challenge was divided into two rounds of assessment: the first round was a team competition, and the second round was an individual competition. After the two rounds of assessment, winders for various awards for this challenge were selected. During the event, inspired by professors’ lectures, the contestants completed their team challenge tasks by working together through literature research, scheme design, and experimental analysis, fully demonstrating a spirit of active exploration, rigorous pragmatism, and teamwork. The judges affirmed the completion of the challenge tasks and gave insightful comments. The newly designed challenge topics comprehensively assessed the participants’ innovative concepts, rapid learning and application abilities, and hands-on practice and experimental skills. The contestants expressed that they had gained a lot from the competition, not only increasing their knowledge of carbon neutrality and carbon peaking, broadening their horizons, but also promoting their research and learning innovation abilities, and engraving in them the importance of teamwork.
Group photo at the closing ceremony
