Reported by: LI Xiang
Photographed by: LI Xiang
Translated by: CHEN Ruirong
Edited by: Jonathan Wylie
Using robots to get the core of peaches, building information connection systems between employees and employers, and memorizing words faster with apps. These are just a few examples of entries in the Second Students Job Innovation Competition, “The Cup of Lilac,” held at HIT on October 25 in room201 of the Activity Center. The competition included a public show, evaluation by judges, and question and answer sessions. Two teams won first prize, two teams won second prize, three teams won third prize, and six teams won the outstanding prize.
The competition was held by the Graduate School, theUndergraduate School and the Communist Youth League. Passingthrough the early stage of evaluation, 18 teams got into the finals. The judges were professors at HIT and supervisors from companies completed the evaluation and inspection, and were able to give some valuable advice to the student innovation companies.
How to attract the support and concern of the judges is the first challenge that the teams faced. Participants used videos and speeches to show competitive and innovative points to the judges and audience. Judges had their first impression of the project though the public show, and held deep discussion with the project managers. They took about twenty minutes to learn the advantages of each project.
The small multi-legged bionic rescue robot team brought many robot puppies and attracted much attention. Theyshowcased their price advantages along with the great practical usage of the product to the judges. They said, ” Our small robot design can search for survivors in earthquakes, the leak of poisongas and other dangerous situations. Similar products on the market will cost thousands, but we sell our product for less than half price!” The lipid anticancer drug team all wore white coatsand brought a sample of their drug design. One of the judges had a discussion about how to make profits with the manager from the team of the industrialization of electrolyte plasma polishing technology. “You project is cutting edge, could you tell me how to make profit out of it?” The manager replied, “Our project has a very broad practical usage market, not being a company, our team has already made profits in the hundreds of thousands.” Twentyminutes was too short for those innovators who wanted to attract investments, the judges also used the time to gain deep understanding of those projects in order to make their vote.
According to the voting, nine teams got into the final question and answer session. ”How will you generalize yourproducts?” “How will you calculate your profits?” ”The future market is led by service not products…” These were some of the harsh questions made by judges to the managers on the stage.Answers were then given by the participants, and judges made specific suggestions and gave guidance to them.
In order to encourage the productivity of scientific research, HIT has built a strong base for student innovation. Some projectsfrom the first innovation competition have now become companies out of the school. Many teams in this year’s competition havemade cooperation contracts with the school scientific park. Two teams will build their own companies.
Judges communicate with participants
Judges observe student innovations
