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CUHK Receives Winners' Cup at 14th National Challenge Cup Competition
Students of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) won the Winners' Cup in the 14th Challenge Cup held at Guangdong University of Technology from 16 to 20 November, beating more than 300 mainland universities and being the only institution in Hong Kong to receive this second top prize since the competition was open to local institutions in 1997.
With a participation of more than two million university students, the Challenge Cup is known as the "Olympics Games Event" in promoting innovation in social science, science and technology in mainland China. CUHK has already won the Hong Kong and Macau Cup for six consecutive times. This year, Hong Kong teams joined the national competition to compete with other mainland universities finalists. CUHK is the only university from Hong Kong to receive the Winners' Cup, which was awarded to the top 20 institutions with the highest scores. The result is really encouraging.
Eight teams of CUHK students participated in the competition. Details of their projects and awards are listed below:
Name of Project | Name of Student | Affiliated Department | Name of Award |
Solution for One-step Sewage Treatment - Genetic Circuit Construction to Simplify Denitrification | Leung King-pong, Loo Fong-chuen, Seak Chi-u | School of Life Science | First 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 |
CUHK strives to encourage and enhance students' creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship by cultivating their interests and capabilities in research, technological development and transfer. The University also encourages cross-disciplinary collaboration among students from different faculties to pool the best young innovative brains together for synergetic effects.
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Winter Activities under CU in Mainland & Taiwan 2015
OALC organizes a wide range of short-term interflow and experiential learning programmes every winter, in collaboration with various institutions in mainland China and Taiwan, for students to experience cross-strait cultures and broaden their horizons. In the coming winter term break, OALC will coordinate 17 programmes, providing more than 280 learning opportunities to CUHK students. Please contact Mr. Simon Leung at 39434412 or via simoncnleung@cuhk.edu.hk for enquiries. You may also refer to the following webpage of OALC for further information:
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/oalc/STUDENT_TRIP/HTML/index.html
