On October 11, the final of the 14th iCAN International Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition South China Division, co-organized by the Ministry of Education Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Steering Committee, the Ministry of Education Innovation Method Teaching Guidance Sub-Committee, Peking University, iCAN International Alliance, and the Global Chinese Micro-nanomolecular System Society, and hosted by South China University of Technology Guangzhou College , was held at Huaguang College. Du Xiaoming, Party Secretary of Huaguang College, Yang Zhaoxi, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Personnel Department, He Zhiwei, Member of the Party Committee and Dean of the School of Electronic Information Engineering, Zhang Jun, Director of the Student Affairs Office, Wu Xianzhong, President of Guangzhou Electronic Audio Industry Association and Chairman of Guangzhou Tianpu Electric Co., Ltd., Zhang Changhai, Vice President and Secretary-General, and senior executives and industry experts from various jury companies attended the opening ceremony. The opening ceremony was hosted by He Zhiwei. At the opening ceremony of
(photo by Lin Peilang, Student Media Center) At the opening ceremony of
, Du Xiaoming pointed out in his speech that Guangzhou College of South China University of Technology has hosted the International College Student iCAN Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition for two consecutive years, fully feeling the trust and love from the organizing committee, universities and enterprises in South China. For a long time, our school has attached great importance to students' innovation and entrepreneurship education and has built a four-in-one practical education platform with "basic experimental platform, professional experimental platform, internship training platform and innovation and entrepreneurship platform". The school is a demonstration school for innovation and entrepreneurship education for college students in Guangdong Province. Students have achieved good results in various scientific and technological innovation and entrepreneurship competitions. He emphasized that innovation and entrepreneurship education is an important way to deepen higher education teaching reform and cultivate college students' innovative spirit and practical ability. The school will take this competition as an opportunity to further strengthen the integration of industry, academia and research in the high-tech field, so that the competition can truly promote the construction of an innovative practice platform.
Du Xiaoming, Party Secretary of Huaguang College, delivered a speech (photo by Huang Ziying, Student Media Center)
Subsequently, Chen Jiaer, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and former president of Peking University, President of IEEE, President of IEEE, foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Toshio Fukuda, initiator of the iCAN competition and professor of Peking University, Zhang Haixia, and others all highly affirmed the preparations for the competition through remote videos and placed high hopes for the event. In his speech, the jury representative Zhang Changhai said that the contestants of this competition have actively signed up to overcome various difficulties under normalized prevention and control of the epidemic. He is very looking forward to this and ensures that the competition charter and rules formulated by the Organizing Committee are respected during the competition review process to ensure that the results of the competition are fair and just. In his speech, Li Menghan, the student representative of the contest, said that the iCAN Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition gives everyone the opportunity to seek knowledge and explore and turn their ideas into reality. Through the competition, the students learned their skills, gained joy, and realized their own value.
Competition Site (Photo by Lin Peilang, Student Media Center)
It is reported that a total of 111 teams from many universities from Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan participated in this competition, an increase of about 30% compared with previous years. The works cover smart home and devices, smart medical care and health care, intelligent monitoring and management, intelligent transportation and energy, intelligent entertainment and services and other fields. They show the intersection and integration between disciplines, and fully reflect the students' spirit of courage to innovate. On the basis of innovation, they are close to the reality of life, highlight the application functions in life, adhere to the purpose of "science and technology innovation and entrepreneurship to serve the society and improve human life" advocated by the competition, reflect the spirit of "transmitting the iCAN concept, inspiring innovation enthusiasm, implementing precise employment, and igniting the dream of entrepreneurship", and advocate the culture of innovation and entrepreneurship.
on site, the competition was divided into 8 venues to defend simultaneously, including three stages: project display, expert questions, and comprehensive assessment. The participating students said that they were inspired and inspired by the comments of the judges, broadened their thinking, and improved their understanding and understanding of the "innovation and entrepreneurship" purpose of the competition, and also inspired their fighting spirit and passion for participating in the China Finals in the future.
Defense Site (Photo by Lin Peilang, Student Media Center)
This competition has discovered many creative projects and works, and corporate review experts said they have gained a lot. The good atmosphere of the competition has inspired the strong sense of innovation and entrepreneurship among teachers and students in our school, and also provided a good communication platform for our school teachers and enterprises.The school will continue to use the competition as a driving force, encourage and guide students to go out of the classroom, enter the society, deepen project research, strive to achieve scientific and technological transformation, and contribute the wisdom of Huaguang people to social and economic development. (Cai Ronghua Zhang Qian, Guangzhou College, South China University of Technology)
Source: China Youth Network
