Team "Wizard" and "ICane": T&M-DDP students’ Success at Hong Kong Techathon 2023
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3 students from the Dual Degree Program in Technology & Management (T&M-DDP) - Lambert LEUNG (Year 3), Calvin TUNG (Year 5) and graduate Lilian Ng (Class of 2022) won awards at Hong Kong Techathon 2023!
Hong Kong Techathon is a competition that aims to showcase innovative ideas in different categories including ArtTech and EdTech, Fintech and Web 3.0, Healthcare & GeronTech, and Smart Cities and Sustainability. The competition provides an opportunity for students and young professionals to collaborate and develop solutions to real-world challenges using technology.
Team “Wizard”, composed of Lambert and 3 other students from HKUST and CUHK, won the 1st runner-up in the ArtTech & EdTech category. They came up with the idea of Chinese Writing Wizard to assist the teaching of Chinese writing. By utilizing GPT-3, a language model developed by OpenAI, the Chinese Writing Wizard can generate writing samples in various styles, enabling Chinese teachers to train students’ writing skills more effectively.
Lilian and Calvin, teaming up with 2 other HKUST students to form “ICane”, won the 2nd runner-up in category “Healthcare & GeronTech”. Their project is to combine traditional white canes with advanced technology such as Computer Vision and Ultrasonic obstacle avoidance and Omni Wheel guidance. With ‘ICane’, visually impaired individuals can navigate their surroundings with greater ease and safety, thus enjoy better mobility, independence and quality of life.
Congratulations again to Lambert, Lilian and Calvin for their outstanding achievements in the Hong Kong Techathon 2023!
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The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) (https://hkust.edu.hk/) is a world-class research intensive university that focuses on science, technology and business as well as humanities and social science. HKUST offers an international campus, and a holistic and interdisciplinary pedagogy to nurture well-rounded graduates with global vision, a strong entrepreneurial spirit and innovative thinking. Over 80% of our research work were rated “Internationally excellent” or “world leading” in the Research Assessment Exercise 2020 of Hong Kong’s University Grants Committee. We were ranked 3rd in Times Higher Education’s Young University Rankings 2022, and our graduates were ranked 23rd worldwide and among the best from universities from Asia in Global Employability University Ranking and Survey 2021.
