The final of the 1st “CityU Cup” University Student Innovation and Entrepreneur Competition was recently held at the Taipa campus of the City University of Macau (CityU). The competition was organized by the Ung Choi Kun Entrepreneurship and Career Centre with the goal of stimulating entrepreneurial capacity and identifying sustainable business projects among CityU students. Approximately 200 students participated in the event, which had more than 40 registered teams. A judging panel composed of industrial representatives and faculty members reviewed the projects presented by 12 teams during the final.
The championship was presented to Ren Haiyan, Ming Yukun, Wu Dongzhang, Luo Yuxi, and Yang Zhouyang from the Faculty of Business (FOB). The students proposed developing an online service platform of virtual role-playing detective games, that incorporate elements of Macao's tangible and intangible cultural heritage to promote local culture and traditions among young people.
Students from the Faculty of Data Science (FDS), Ding Hui, Xu Minghe, Zhou Yaji, He Jia, Yang Boxong, and Zhang Linxin, along with student Hong Weixin from the Faculty of Finance, won the 1st runner-up award with their eco-friendly degradable product. The team applied Chinese-developed fiber extraction and modification technology to innovate a highly degradable material from water hyacinth. With the help of YOLOV4, an object detection algorithm, and real-time monitoring, they also provided a solution to mitigate the severe hyacinth overgrowing problem in Bachi River in Long'an County, Nanning city, Guangxi province.
Students from the Faculty of Business (FOB), Fan Chaoren, Guo Leilei, Wu Yongying, Wang Ruiqi, and Kang Zhaodi, teamed up with student Fu Chun from School of Education (SOE) and student Luo Feiyang from Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS), won the 2nd runner-up award with their career role-playing game and consultancy services for children. This interactive career role-playing game is infused with traditional Chinese culture, which allows children to learn while having fun and are able to receive "one-to-one" consulting services for their holistic development.
Among the judges this year were representatives from the Chinese Overseas Talent Service Base, the Foshan Hong Kong Macao Youth Entrepreneurship Center, the Haizhou Zhongkai Hong Kong-Macao Youth Entrepreneurship Base, the Faculty of Business, the Macao Juvenile Venture International Group, the Faculty of International Tourism and Management, and the Shenzhen Enterprise Human Resource Development Association.
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