"Universe Music Box" Team Wins Special Prize in the 2022 China US Youth Maker Competitio
From August 20 to 21, 2022, the global final of the "2022 China US Young Makers Competition" was successfully concluded. More than 300 young makers from 76 teams in China and the United States met in the cloud through the "Internet of Vision+Internet" technology, injecting sincere friendship and youth wisdom into China US cultural exchanges and human society development.
In the two-day final, the contestants applied innovative thinking and cutting-edge technology to face the difficulties and challenges in social life, fully expressing the project design concept and implementation ideas. The final selection includes one special prize, three first prizes, six second prizes, and fifteen third prizes.
Tsinghua University organized a student team to actively prepare for the competition and invited expert professors for multiple rounds of careful guidance. In the end, the "Universe Music Box" team won the highest honor crown and the final special prize.
How do we perceive climate?
The atmosphere is the outermost gas sphere on Earth, and we use our skin touch to perceive the cold, warm, dry, and wet climate on the ground. From the ground, we can only glimpse a corner of the sky, but from the universe, we can see the whole picture of the Earth.
The Universe Eight Music Box is an ongoing project at the Art and Technology Innovation Base of Tsinghua University. It is a new musical instrument that enables interaction between humans and the universe at the sound level. It consists of two parts: space and ground. The space part is the input and trigger end of the instrument, while the ground part is the sound and interaction end of the instrument. Through the linkage of these two parts, the experiencer can hear music from all directions of the universe on the ground, achieving resonance between heaven and earth.
Cosmic sound is the result of audible conversion of wave data from various directions in the universe. The team transforms abstract mathematical information into sound forms that humans can perceive, collects waveform data from various planets in the universe, such as gamma rays, electromagnetic waves, etc., and creates unique music for planets in various directions. The space part of the device has been installed on the satellite board and will be launched into space by the end of 2022.
acceptance speech
In 2021, tens of thousands of scientists jointly issued a warning: the Earth is approaching or even crossing the climate critical point. "Global warming" is a familiar term to us, but on the ground, we can only perceive the temperature, dryness, and humidity of the climate, and cannot perceive climate change from a comprehensive perspective. In this context, the collision between the "Cosmic Music Box" and climate change has sparked a different spark. In the climate section of the project, from a cosmic perspective, space is used as the touchpoint of music, expressing climate through sound and advocating for sustainable development of the Earth through melody.
Thank you to all the teachers for their guidance throughout the journey, which has enabled us to overcome obstacles and overcome obstacles in the track of Chinese and American makers, and bring glory to our school! We will continue to explore more possibilities in the universe.
Wishing members of the "Universal Music Box" team
Being able to achieve one's ideals in the heart
Building an Ideal Future
Achieve a just cause!
The China US Youth Maker Competition is hosted by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, and organized by the China (Ministry of Education) Study Abroad Service Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing Gehua Cultural Development Group Co., Ltd., Google Information Technology (China) Co., Ltd., and the China University Science and Technology Park Alliance. The competition is themed "Creating the Future Together", advocating young makers to start from the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind, focusing on the common challenges and opportunities of "climate change and sustainable development", combining future thinking and design innovation, empowering creativity with technology, and creating excellent green, inclusive, and sustainable maker works. The competition aims to promote the construction of maker culture and ecology in China and the United States through competition, assist in the continuous optimization of young maker communities and maker space environment, and cultivate the growth and success of young makers. The competition fully embodies the characteristics of cultural exchanges between China and the United States, builds a cross-cultural co creation platform for young people from both countries, promotes young people's attention to the future well-being of humanity, shares innovative solutions, and cooperates to carry out actions.