Mr ZHANG Yiqing (CDE, final year) has been awarded Second Prize at 16th "Challenge Cup" National College Students’ Extra-curricular Academic Science and Technology Contest. The winning project supervised by Dr Alan Lam (Adjunct Professor of EE) is called “Smart Baseball Training System”.
Challenge Cup is a biennial national competition since 1989. The theme this year is “Challenge for Dream, Innovation for Country”. Over the past 30 years, the contest has developed from a small arena for over 300 participants from 19 universities to the “Olympic Games” for more than two million students from over 2,000 universities. It has brought to the public a large number of pieces of original student scientific and technological works, motivated and trained a multitude of outstanding talents in the fields of science, technology, education and economy, promoted the transformation and application of scientific and technological innovation by college students, and enhanced the development of innovation and entrepreneurship education in universities.