FLASS team enters the final phase of Hong Kong Station in the Huawei ICT Competition
Three members of the “Soaring into the Sky” team, from left to right: Mr Hamza Luqman from MIT, Ms Chan Wing-lam from CCA and Ms Li Anqi from MIT. While Hamza and Anqi from MIT contribute their knowledge in ICT to the project, Wing-lam applies her music knowledge in the project.
Around 200 distinguished guests from the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry and teacher and student representatives from higher institutions in Hong Kong attended the award presentation event on 2 December 2023.
Huawei Hong Kong gives a commemorative plaque to thank EdUHK for its participation in the competition.
On 2 December 2023, Huawei Hong Kong held the “Huawei ICT Competition 2023-2024 - Hong Kong Station Awards Ceremony” at the Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) to present awards to eighteen winning teams from various higher institutions in Hong Kong. “Soaring into the Sky” (衝上雲霄), a team made up of three FLASS students, has entered the final phase of the Hong Kong Station in the Huawei ICT Competition and won the Potential Prize. They received a prize award of HK$1,500 as a token of appreciation at the ceremony.
The cross-departmental team consists of three members. Ms Li Anqi, a student of Master Science in Artificial Intelligence and Educational Technology, Mr Hamza Luqman, a third-year student from the Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Artificial Intelligence and Educational Technology, both from the Department of Mathematics and Information Technology (MIT), and Ms Chan Wing-lam from the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Creative Arts and Culture and Bachelor of Education (Honours) (Music) co-terminal programme from the Department of Cultural and Creative Arts. Dr Haoran Cheung Ho-yin from MIT was the supervisor of the team.
Around 200 distinguished guests from the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry and teacher and student representatives from higher institutions in Hong Kong attended the award presentation event. There were a total of eighteen teams who were able to enter the final phase of the competition. At the award ceremony, first, second, third, and potential prizes were given out under the Cloud and Computing Tracks respectively.
From left to right: Professor Li Wai-keung, Dean of FLASS, Mr Hamza Luqman, and Ms Li Anqi at the award-presentation ceremony.
Professor Li Wai-keung, Dean of FLASS, attended the award-presentation ceremony and said, “Even though our team didn’t win any major awards, but being able to proceed to the final round of the competition is still worthy of praise. Innovation is always a continuous process that is built on the spirit to try new things and improve from experiences. I would like to reassure our students that their every achievement is significant and every small step forward is progress.”
Ms Li Anqi, leader of Soaring into the Sky, said, “We are excited about the challenges and opportunities this competition offers, and are honoured to be able to enter the finals. Participating in the Huawei ICT Competition - Cloud Track provided us with a valuable opportunity to deepen our understanding about relevant ICT theories. We applied related ICT knowledge learnt in classrooms throughout the competition. Our horizons were broadened as we needed to understand and apply various technical tools, resources platforms and practical application scenarios to complete our project.”
It has been the third time that Huawei Hong Kong organised the Huawei ICT Competition 2023-2024 - Hong Kong Station. The global tech giant Huawei Technologies aims to use the competition as a platform for students to compete and exchange ideas, thus enhancing their ICT knowledge and practical skills as well as increasing their ability to innovate by using new technologies and platforms. The first Huawei ICT Competition was held in 2015. Since then, popularity of the competition has been growing rapidly with increasing number of participants and participating countries every year. The China Association of Higher Education (CAHE) has officially announced the Huawei ICT Competition as a nationwide competition for college and university students.
Currently open to registration, the 8th Huawei ICT Competition will be held nationally, regionally, and then globally. While national competitions have been held in different countries and cities since September 2023, the global final competition will be held in May 2024. The competition is divided into Practice and Innovation Competitions with Practice Competition being subdivided into the Network, Cloud and Computing Tracks, and the Innovation Competition including the AI Track.
The 7th Huawei ICT Competition attracted more than 120,000 students from over 2,000 universities in 74 countries and regions. After national and regional competitions, 146 teams and 429 college students from 36 countries and regions advanced to the global finals.
EdUHK and Huawei Hong Kong signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in May 2023 to jointly establish the ICT Academy in order to help nurture Information and Communications Technology (ICT) talent. Under the new collaboration framework, the two partner institutions will promote smart teaching through employing IT infrastructure, applying ICT technology in learning, teaching and managing, and exploring innovative applications of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in education. Certified training programmes will also be provided for EdUHK staff and students to foster holistic development.
