Event Highlights
The HSUHK Innovation Project Competition 2022 (“the Competition”) reached a new height, with its Pitching Competition and Awards Presentation Ceremony successfully organised on 3 March. Marching into its 7th year, the Competition is aimed at stimulating our students’ innovativeness through their original proposals.
The Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) this year, again, was proudly joined by the Institute for Youth Sustainability Leadership (IYSL) and the Wu Jieh Yee Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (WUCIE) as CTL’s strategic partners, enriching this Competition with talks and workshops.
Themed upon the three chosen Sustainable Development Goals specified by the United Nations, namely SDG4 (Quality Education), SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure) and SDG10 (Reduce Inequalities), the Competition enlightened about four hundred students and staff through three theme-based talks in November 2021. In February 2022, the student participants of this Competition were showered with two skill-based workshops: first, CTL’s E-Learning Team inspired them to spice up their PowerPoint or PowToon proposals, and the Hongkong-based renowned comedian, Vivek Mahbubani, further sparked their interest in pitching their proposal in a captivative way, with only three minutes in their hands.
A total of 39 students in the 12 shortlisted teams achieved tremendously throughout the whole Competition, from writing a concrete proposal to shining on our online stage in their three-minute pitch.
Congratulations to all participants for their superb performances! The winning teams would be further encouraged to refine and revise their proposals to join intra- and inter-university entrepreneurship or innovation competitions where exchange of ideas, generous seed funds and incubation training are up for grabs, turning their proposals into reality.
Awardees of the Competition are as follows:
The curtain was drawn for our Competition; however, it is just the beginning for our winning teams. They will be referred to other intra- and inter-university innovation/ entrepreneurship competitions/ programmes where seed funds, incubating training and practice advice from different sectors will be up for grabs.
Our student MC, Jeremy ESTABILLO, invited all parties to take a group photo.
Champion: Home+
1st Runner-up: GreenBoxer
2nd Runner-up: VEGEBLOCK
Ms Benita Chick, Founder and CEO of Encompass HK
Ms Queenie Man, Founder and CEO of Project Futurus
Mr Perkins Ho, Sr Business Development Manager, Hong Kong/ Taiwan Strategic Programs, Amazon Web Services
Dr Chi-kit Chan, Director of Institute for Youth Sustainability Leadership, one of the competition judges.
Dr Thomas Man, Director of Wu Jieh Yee Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, one of the competition judges.
Dr Ben Cheng, Director of Centre for Teaching and Learning, delivered a closing remark.
Organised by Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) & Teaching and Learning Enhancement Section , CTL
| Date: | 3 March 2022 (Thursday) |
| Time: | 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm |
| Mode: | Online via Zoom |