The final round of the Smart City 2024 Initiative Competition organized by the High-Tech Business Incubator (Ho Chi Minh City High-Tech Park) witnessed a tense competition lasting nearly 5 hours.
Taking place on the afternoon of December 18, the final round of the Smart City competition within the framework of the Ho Chi Minh City Innovation and Startup Week (WHISE 2024) - Photo: CT
Digital transformation and green transformation gradually assert their position
Mr. Le Quoc Cuong, Deputy Head of the Management Board of Ho Chi Minh City Hi-Tech Park, said that the Smart City 2024 contest - Smart City Building Initiative is of great significance in exploiting the potential of the young intellectual community and technology start-up projects and businesses. Thereby, creating human resources to implement the development orientation of building smart cities.
This year, the competition attracted more than 100 participating projects, of which more than 60 potential projects were selected. is a technology startup, the project comes from a number of universities in Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang and Hanoi . Before the final round, the High-Tech Business Incubator organized intensive training for these project groups.
Product lines such as organic substrates and biological products produced from durian peels and durians compete in the final round - Photo: CT
Mr. Cuong said that digital transformation and green transformation are gradually asserting their position and are being focused on by Ho Chi Minh City.
All for the goal of strongly developing science and technology, innovation and digital transformation.
From there, create a breakthrough in productivity, develop the national innovation system, the innovative startup ecosystem, and make sustainable development a common development trend of the whole country.
"The projects have participated in training programs on perfecting technology and business models with valuable support from experts from many large enterprises," said Mr. Cuong.
Representatives of the teams that won first prize in the student category - Photo: CT
'Website for screening for hemolytic disease', ' agricultural products' win big at Smart City
Hoang Minh Khang (front), Le Gia Khang, students of class 5C2, Ngo Thoi Nhiem Primary School, Binh Tan District, in the final round of the Smart City 2024 competition with the smart classroom model - Photo: CT
The projects also went through preliminary and semi-final rounds to select the best teams for the final round. The final round was a competition between the best teams in the technology and biotechnology category (startup projects), and the robot assembly and programming category (students).
Le Quoc Cuong, Deputy Head of the Management Board of Ho Chi Minh City High-Tech Park, said that the highlight of this year's competition is the expansion of the competition field. The biotechnology application competition was included in the competition for the first time, thereby creating a difference thanks to its high applicability and ability to solve urgent problems of modern cities.
In addition, the competition also has a competition board for students with the theme of assembling and programming robots. This is considered a way to help children access STEM education early, applying knowledge in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The requirements are set in specific contexts, connecting schools, communities, workplaces and global organizations, thereby developing competencies in the field of STEM and being able to compete in the new economy.
Here, the teams will present their products and business models to a panel of judges who are experts in the fields of technology, innovative startups, and businesses.
Projects are completed and developed with ideas and products and supported to participate in the pre-incubation program at the High-Tech Business Incubator.
Little girl Nguyen Ngoc My Anh, Truong Dinh Primary School, left an impression with the green city model with many buildings using entirely clean energy - Photo: CT
In the end, the first prize in Group A for students went to the project to develop a website for screening for congenital hemolytic anemia Thalassemia based on artificial intelligence with a total prize of 50 million VND. This project was carried out by a group of students from the University of Health Sciences, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City.
The first prize of group B startup belongs to the project of producing high-density Probiotics and applying Probiotics to create biological products for environmental protection agriculture (Probiotics Biotechnology Company Limited, Thu Duc City).
The three first prizes in the robot assembly and programming category went to teams of students from Nam Saigon Primary - Secondary - High School, Hoc Mon Robot Academy, and Thu Duc High School.
Source: https://tuoitre.vn/dung-ai-de-tam-soat-benh-tan-mau-bam-sinh-thang-giai-cuoc-thi-smart-city-20241218192412878.htm
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