CUHK students won top awards in the 14th Challenge Cup held at Guangdong University of Technology, beating competition from more than 300 participating universities with over 780 projects from mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau, to garner the Winners' Cup, the second top prize. CUHK is the only institution from Hong Kong to receive such an award since the competition accepted participation of Hong Kong tertiary institutions in 1997.

As a bi-annual national competition, the Challenge Cup is known as the "Olympics" for promoting innovation in social science, science and technology among university students in China.

List of the winning engineering projects and awards:

Name of Project	Name of Student	Affiliated Department	Name of Award
Sign Language Educator – Vision Aid Sensor Glove	Lai Jintao, Tang Ding, Chen Bowen, Zhong Zhuowei	Department of Computer Science and Engineering	First Award
Semisolid Vanadium Redox Flow Battery	Wang Zengyue	Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering	First Award
Miniature Environment-Friendly Tadpole Robot for Capsule Endoscope to Examine the Entire Gastrointestinal Tract	Zhong Yong, Zhang Lin	Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering	Second Award
Mechanical Energy Harvested Damper	Chu Ki-sum	Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering	Second Award
Hollow-Core, Porous-Shell, Spindle-Like Fe304Nanocapsules for Controlled Drug Delivery	Chan Kai-fung	Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering	Second Award
Wearable Exoskeleton Suit for Paralyzed Individuals	Ma Hao, Chen Bing, Qin Laiyin, Guan Xiao	Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology	Second Award
R-Guardian Anti-lost System	Kuo Wai-keung, Lau Pak-lam, Cheung Wai-lam, Chung Yiu Ting	Department of Information Engineering	Third Award