Public Association Secondary School, including one member with a hearing impairment and another with learning disabilities, gaining the rst runner-up place. Other award-winners included Ebenezer School, Pui Ching Middle School, Yan Oi Tong Tin Ka Ping Secondary School and GT (Ellen Yeung) College. “This event not only o ered contestants a stimulating learning experience,” Prof Tim Woo, Director of the GCE, noted. “It also gave our University’s students an opportunity to serve the community.” (See also P ). n a broadly inclusive and pioneering Hong Kong community robotics initiative, HKUST students served as teachers and mentors to primary and secondary students and those with special education needs in a two-day workshop on the basic skills of robot-making. The activity, co-organized by the School of Engineering’s Center for Global & Community Engagement (GCE) together with other HKUST Schools and the Interdisciplinary Programs O ce, attracted teams of participants, who later competed in an underwater robot-building contest. The contest was won by Our Lady of the Rosary College girls’ school, with a team from Hong Kong & Kowloon Chiu Chow I You Can Make a Robot Too! certi cate of merit in the electro-magnetic section. The competition encourages students to apply circuit design and mechanics, embedded so ware programming, and control theories to create smart model cars that can race on a complex track. he HKUST Robotics Team enjoyed a bumper year in , with its various teams receiving a host of awards in local and international contests. The Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) team won the championship in the Explorer Class at the th Hong Kong/Asia Regional IET/MATE Underwater Robot Challenge and went on to surpass its previous achievements by receiving four awards at the MATE International ROV Competition in Canada, including third place overall in the Explorer Class. The team of students from the Schools of Engineering, Science and Business were in competition with over teams from countries and regions. The challenge focused on ROVs’ role in arctic science and the o shore oil and gas industries, with teams required to build a robot that could accomplish industrial ROV tasks in extreme underwater environments. The team also received a second class award in the th National Challenge Cup. The biennial competition is considered one of the premier competitions in China for top young innovative minds across the country. In the Robocon Hong Kong contest, HKUST won the championship for the h consecutive year. The University’s “Fiery Dragon” team was named champion while its “War Dragon” team was third runner-up. The theme was “Robominton” with every team developing two robots, one wired, one wireless, to compete in a game of badminton against an opposing team’s robots. HKUST went on to represent Hong Kong in the international ABU Robocon in Indonesia, securing the rst runner-up place. Meanwhile, the Smart Car team steered its way to three honors at the th National Undergraduate Students “Freescale Cup” Intelligent Car Competition (South China Region), namely two third class awards in the camera section and a T Robotics Team Rolls On to Further Success 20 IN FOCUS
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