External student awards in 2022 / 2023

Four PolyU students who were awarded the Innovation and Technology Scholarship, which is jointly organised by the Innovation and Technology Commission, HSBC, and The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups. The students’ achievements were recognised at an Award Presentation Ceremony held on 13 June.

PolyU have achieved outstanding results at Hong Kong Techathon 2023. PolyU teams took away seven of the 16 prizes in this competition, including three Champions, one First Runner-up, two Second Runner–ups and one Best Presentation Awards. Almost 200 PolyU students entered the competition. PolyU teams were champions in three of the four categories in the competition. The champion teams were 417 Tech in the ArtTech & EdTech category, Fleming MedLab in the Healthcare & GeronTech category and BoostRider in the Smart Cities & Sustainability category.

A team of PolyU master’s students won the Gold Prize in the Engineers Week “Innovation Competition” for their project “The Moss” – an Internet of Things system that supports a future city that is highly integrated with green energy, sustainability, and intelligent transportation. The system displays the personal physical condition and life data to individual users and collects and processes the overall information of the city.

Advised by Dr Huang Hailong, Assistant Professor of the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, the team includes leader Mr Cheng Li (Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering); Mr Zeng Haoxu (Civil and Environment Engineering); Ms Yu Lingyan (Engineering Business Management); Ms Wang Fuqiu (Building Environment and Energy Engineering); and Ms Cheng Jie (Electrical Engineering). Mr Paul Chan, Financial Secretary of the HKSAR Government, presented the award to the team.

Lee Kwan-ho, a second-year Product Design student, won the First Runner-up prize (Student Group) in the 24th Hong Kong Jewellery Design Competition organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council.