HKUST joined hands with Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks (HKSTP) and other six Hong Kong universities and successfully held the Hong Kong Techathon 2021 from 2 to 9 Jan 2021. The challenge received a record-breaking number of applications this year – 937 participants (including 331 HKUST students and alumni). HKUST teams won various awards in each theme of the challenge.

Hong Kong Techathon 2021 is a 7-day challenge where programmers, engineers, designers, marketers and entrepreneurs will work collaboratively over a week to come up with ideas and prototypes and pitch for seed fund and incubation support! It opened to the students and alumni from the member universities for application. In view of the pandemic situation, the challenge turned online this year.  It started by the Techathon Mixer in Day 1 which provided the opportunity for the participants to meet like-minded friends from different universities and form their teams, followed by a series of workshops and mentorship service to equip the participants with sufficient knowledge in developing their business ideas.

 

100+ participants joined the mixer to find their teammates for the Techathon

 

The judge panel assess the shortlisted team through live presentation and Q&A session.

 

15 shortlisted teams in each theme (i.e. New Generation Technology, AI & Fintech, Smart City, and Social Impact & Health Tech) presented their projects to the judge panels formed by experts and leaders in the industries and HKSTP on 9 Jan 2021.  HKUST teams won the awards in various theme and were invited to attend the award ceremony. Below is the award list for HKUST teams.

 

Fill Easy

 

Peeker

 

ReHertz

 

NutriRay

 

SOCIF