Agar Art Contest 2025 (Preliminary Round)

《生物科技》《Biotechnology》

微生物在生物科技應用可以追溯到幾個世紀前，例如烘焙麵包和釀酒技術，應用於糧食和農業發展。 隨著科技進步解開了 DNA 結構和遺傳學的奧秘，科學家們能夠設計出生長更快、營養更豐富、抗病能力更強的新農作物。 在醫學領域中，生物技術也發展出更準確、更快速的診斷方法和個人化治療方案。科學家還可以培養不同顏色的細菌，將該技術用於藝術和繪畫上。

With the application of microorganisms in biotechnology dated back to centuries, for example baking bread and brewing wine, are used in food and agriculture development. As technological advances recently revealed the mysteries of DNA structure and genetics, scientists were able to design new crops to grow faster, more nutritious and even resistant to disease. In the field of medicine, biotechnology also enhanced the development of more accurate and rapid diagnostics and design customized treatments.  Scientists can also cultivate bacteria in different colors and apply this technology to art and painting.

《比賽目的》《Purpose of the Competition》

瓊脂藝術 (Agar Art) 是新興的一種藝術流派，是通過特定模式培養微生物，用瓊脂板當成畫布，有色的細菌當作顏料，在充分培育後創作而成的微生物藝術作品，讓學生展示他們在 STEAM 學習上的創造性思維和解難能力。

Agar Art is an innovative form of art, which uses agar plates as canvas and transformed bacteria with different colours as paint, to create microbial art works under optimal cultivation. We hope that primary and secondary school students can demonstrate their creativity and problem-solving skills in STEAM learning and present the ideas on agar.

我們作為美國微生物學會的合作伙伴，並在生物科技公司Amino Labs 全力支持下，於香港舉辦『國際瓊脂藝術大賽』，得到空前成功。比賽成功提高中小學生對科學和生物科技以及STEAM  (科學、技術、工程、藝術和數學) 教育的興趣。

As a partner of the American Society for Microbiology and with the full support of the biotechnology company Amino Labs, we held the ‘ Agar Art Contest’ in Hong Kong, achieving unprecedented success. This competition has successfully promoted primary and secondary school students’ interest in science and biotechnology as well as STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) education.

《比賽內容》《Competition Details》

主題：『小小微生物，驅動大世界』

Theme: Microbes Make the World Go Round

參賽對象：小學組 (小四至小六級學生)； 初中組 (中一至中三級學生)；高中組 (中四至中六級學生)

Participants: Primary Section (P. 4 to P.6 students); Secondary Section (S.1 to S.6 students).

比賽日期：二零二五年十月十一日 (星期六)

Date: 11^th Oct, 2025 (Saturday)

比賽時間：小學組 (上午九時至下午一時)；中學組 (下午二時至六時)

Time: 9:00 am to 1:00 pm (Primary Section); 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm (Secondary Section)