The 7th Greater Bay Area IT Application System Development Competition Awards Ceremony was held on March 25th at the Songshan Lake National High tech Zone International Innovation and Entrepreneurship Community in Dongguan. On February 14th, the "7th Guangdong Hong Kong Macau Greater Bay Area IT Application System Development Competition Finals" was jointly initiated by Hong Kong Youth IT Network, Guangzhou Association for Science and Technology, and Shenzhen Association for Science and Technology. It was hosted and organized by Guangdong High Performance Computing Society and Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area Technology Collaborative Innovation Alliance and was held in a combination of online and offline formats. More than 100 outstanding participating teams from Hong Kong, Macau, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Zhaoqing, Huizhou, Jiangmen, Shaoguan, Zhanjiang, Shanwei and other places participated in all aspects of the finals, including work presentation, system demonstration and expert questioning, through video conferencing or on-site roadshows.
Our students Jiaxu Wang, Ruochen Yang, Guangyuan Zheng, and Zejun Zhou, under the guidance of Assistant Professor Chia-Wei Chu, submitted the 'Glue APP Project Plan' which won two awards (one of the fourteen groups), and Jiajing Kang, Yaokang Wang, and Yaxuan Li won the The "Meta-Project" 'Internet + Learning Sharing Platform' submitted under the guidance of Assistant Professors Chia-Wei Chu and Koi Io Kong won the Special Prize - Silver Award (one of three groups) and the Best Report Award (one of two groups).
Jiajing Kang stated that throughout the entire competition process, the guiding teacher put a lot of effort into each work, from creativity and topic selection to final implementation and improvement. This is not only technical support, but also ideological inspiration and guidance. It is they who give us the opportunity to express our inner thoughts through hands-on practice, allowing us to break through and learn from the work through repeated iterations. Throughout the development process of the application, we combined the theory and practice we learned during our university years, continuously improving our planning, design, and implementation abilities, forging ahead, and cultivating and exercising our abilities in innovation, coordination, organization, problem-solving, and teamwork. Through competitions, we make like-minded friends both domestically and internationally, see excellent works with a wide range of categories, and truly achieve the goal of interdisciplinary communication. Of course, I also discovered my shortcomings in the collision of ideas, learned from each other, and gained a lot from it. It was an extremely valuable experience. Finally, I would like to quote a quote from Hawking to encourage everyone, 'Be curious', persevere, and always be curious.
The "Greater Bay Area IT Application System Development Competition" was founded in 2016 and was renamed in 2018. In 2018, outstanding works from the competition were successfully exhibited at the China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fair. In April 2022, the "Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area IT Application System Development Competition" was selected as a typical case of China Association for Science and Technology Hong Kong Macao scientific and cultural exchange and cooperation during the 13th Five Year Plan period.
In 2022, the 7th Greater Bay Area IT Application System Development Competition set up 14 competition areas in 12 cities, with more than 1500 registered participants and over 500 participating projects covering 57 universities. About 350 experts and teachers participated in project guidance. Finally, 43 outstanding works advanced to the finals and participated in various award competitions.
