USST Scored High Results in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition

From Oct 12th to 15th, the final of the 7th China International College Students'‘Internet Plus’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition was held in Nanchang University. After the fierce competition, teams from USST won 3 silver awards，ranking the first among Shanghai universities.

There were more than 9.56 million participants from 121 countries and regions in the competition, who came from 4347 universities and colleges and over 2.28 million projects were qualified for the final competition. In the end, totally 1085 teams entered the final, and 3 projects from USST were included, hitting another record high in history.

Under the guidance of  Zhuang Songlin, Yang Qiguo, Qian Haiyan, the team made up of Wang Guanxue, Zhang Qingli, Xu Mingzhu,etc with the project “light-chasing world-forerunner of the new generation of laser technology". Guided by Ji Yunfeng, Xu Lin and Liu Na, the team made up of Mou Haiming, Liang Zhiyuan and Xu Beilei won the silver prize with the project "humanoid robot Xiaobei-the first commercialized humanoid biped robot & Guinness World Record keeper".

Under the guidance of Zhang Dawei, Li Chenxue and Yu Zhensheng, the team made up of Lian Jiqing, Zhang Yang and Xu Qianwen won the silver prize with their project “ETH post-ripening technology creates a new model of controllable supply of fresh fruits to promote rural revitalization" in the Youth Red Dream-building Journey，making itself the only project awarded among Shanghai universities on the competition track .

Under the guidance of Sui Guorong and Xia Kun, the project “smart mall guidance system based on human flow intensity monitoring” from High School Affiliated to USST, won the budding innovation potential award. Besides that, USST also won 4 bronze awards.

The number of projects in the national final hit another record high with more schools present, more positive cooperation among undergraduates, master students and doctor students and closer connection between campus inside and outside, during the preliminary period of the competition, fully demonstrating the role of talent cultivation of the competition, having achieved the goal of promoting learning, teaching and innovation through competition, and showing that focusing the policy of focusing on domestic and international top innovation and entrepreneurship competition, USST keeps deepening the innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, and pushes ahead the high-level university construction.

USST will continue to utilize innovation and entrepreneurship education reform as a vital method in improving the quality of talent cultivating , and deeply push ahead the reform and innovation of talent cultivating model as well as the system mechanism, integrating innovation and entrepreneurship education into the whole process of talent cultivating and every stage of education & teaching, to create the innovation & entrepreneurship cultures full of innovative factors, and develop more aspiring, capable and responsible talents in the new era.