Tsinghua University Summer Workshop on Urban Entrepreneurs
On the afternoon of July 26th, the closing ceremony of the 2019 Tsinghua University "Urban Entrepreneurs" Summer Workshop was held in the multifunctional lecture hall 203 on the 11th floor of the Roma Building. Fu Zhiyong, Academic Director of "Urban Innovation and Entrepreneurship" and Director of the Service Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts, Chen Ken, Director of the Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan Administrative Affairs Office of Tsinghua University, Yu Cangbi, Deputy Secretary General of the China University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Alliance, Ma Xiaotian, Head of the Secretariat of the China University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Research Center, Ren Xuguang, Director of the Hong Kong Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Association and Head of the Macau Special Administrative Region, and Wu Yao, Member of the European Association of Female Scientists, Shang Yating, mentor of the School of Logistics at Tsinghua University in Hsinchu, Zhang Beixi, guest lecturer at the University of Melbourne and General Manager of Broo Ltd in Greater China, Li Xi, Deputy General Manager of Meike Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Liang Wenhong, special mentor of the School of Management at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, He Qiong, PGA teacher at the International Department of Beijing Normal University, Liang Ying, product designer of the Smart Classroom Business Unit of Ruijie Network Company, and Liu Jichen, CEO of Beijing Xinsudai Technology Co., Ltd, Baidu Senior Interface Designer Xia Fan, Shi Jia Hutong Museum Peng Dengfeng, Kyushu University Design Strategy PhD student Liu Yuqi, Milan Institute of Technology Product Service System Design graduate student Miao Xueqing and others attended the closing ceremony. The closing ceremony was presided over by Xia Qing, the academic advisor of Maker.
The 2019 Tsinghua University Urban Entrepreneurship Program brought together 62 students from 8 universities in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. They formed an interdisciplinary learning group, focusing on 11 topics including "cultural heritage", "low-carbon life", "sustainable fashion", "sports and cultural innovation", "community aging", "community pets", "transportation", "smart classrooms", "STEAM education", and conducted project research, innovative results display, and graduation report.
"Do you know that the water consumption of a pair of jeans can grow five kilograms of oranges? Today's fast fashion, tomorrow's garbage dump." In response to the environmental pollution caused by fast fashion, the sustainable fashion team has designed a "Reflection" app, which aims to use a community+platform model to allow young people with low income and pursuing fashion to share dressing, renovating, and trading second-hand fashion clothing, extending the life cycle of clothing through recycling channels The three modules of offline activities and brainstorming provide users with information related to clothing matching, clothing renovation and upgrading, and sustainable knowledge, establishing a "slow fashion" ecosystem.
The cultural heritage group, who carried six painted screens and walked a lantern on stage, showcased their creativity. In response to the pain point of the excessive display of text in museums represented by the "Historian Hutong Museum" and the demand for more interactive facilities in museums, they start from the number and content of Hutong cultural carriers, and suggest establishing online museums, using virtual reality technology to increase the virtual experience space of Hutong culture; On the other hand, a large-scale art installation called "Walking Horse Observing Hutongs" is set up in the museum, integrating the traditional street life culture of hutongs with modern AI, facial recognition and other technologies, presenting light and shadow at different times of the day, reproducing the scenery of old hutongs, enhancing the interactive experience of tourists, and injecting new vitality into the inheritance and development of traditional hutong culture. The judges believe that their creativity is similar to the night tour project launched by the Forbidden City, which is quite innovative.
The Low Carbon Urban Living Group has launched the "Green House" app platform to address the pollution and waste issues in the architectural design market. The platform aims to connect homeowners and designers, providing them with one-stop modular low-carbon green design solution services such as data exchange, design matching, building material selection, review and evaluation. Green houses will be prioritized based on the "low-carbon index", encouraging green and low-carbon design solutions to stand out and "give old houses a new life".
If the room can be shared, why can't the kitchen be shared? The food SDG team came up with an association and designed a "food sharing Airfood" platform. The "Enjoy Food" platform has functions such as precise meal preparation, real-time sharing, home chefs, and nutrition monitoring. It can create an "Airbnb" in the kitchen industry through big data matching and offline social interaction.
"Changxing M+helps you find and book parking spaces in real time; automatic parking allows you to park worry free from now on," said the transportation team. After analyzing 218 parking software and conducting field research, they have launched an intelligent parking platform to solve the problem of parking difficulties for urban private car users. Through real-time monitoring of parking lots, AI autonomous driving technology, and big data matching of the best parking spaces, Changxing M+allows drivers to park directly and travel smoothly.
The Handmade Food Group has designed a "Food Map" that combines traditional cuisine with historical culture to help tourists discover more about traditional culinary culture. Here, users can engage in food map positioning, food information acquisition, food strategy, and AR game interaction, savoring and inheriting culture within a wide range of delicious food. The judges suggested that they make food molds and encourage tourists to DIY traditional handmade food, truly experiencing traditional culinary culture.
The Sports and Creative Group has designed an app called "SKAS" (sports children after school) to address the pain points of parents being busy with work and not having time to accompany their children in exercise, allowing your children to get started. This product provides professional custody services for parents, offering a customized package of services for children who are left unattended after school, allowing parents to work with peace of mind, allowing children to grow happily, strengthening parent-child relationships, and improving the health index of citizens.
After conducting research on the urgent needs of elderly universities in Beijing, the community aging group has designed an "Enjoy" app for middle-aged and elderly people. "We use educational and social methods to provide middle-aged and elderly people with a happy and fulfilling elderly life, so that there are no difficult universities for the elderly in the world." Through the "Old Friends Qile" platform, middle-aged and elderly people can quickly choose courses, enroll in nearby schools, make convenient payments, enjoy a happy, fulfilling, energetic, and high-quality old age life, truly achieving a sense of learning, happiness, and action for the elderly.
The Smart Classroom team has proposed an intelligent education solution called "Cloud Learning" Study Cloud to address the practical problems of insufficient interaction, after-school tutoring, and learning planning in traditional classrooms. Our Smart Classroom group hopes to use a small projector to project an image of non media air, allowing students to break free from heavy books and increase interaction with teachers, making the classroom more interesting and lively.
The community pet group focuses on the prominent issue of stray dogs in major parks, communities, and urban-rural fringe areas in the city, and has launched a Let's Gou "Come and Feed Dogs" app. The student introduced, "We take the life of stray dogs as the blueprint, from the joy of birth to the sadness of being abandoned, and then to a series of processes of wandering in garbage piles, being beaten, abused, and finally dying." The APP will enable urban residents to perceive the survival difficulties of stray dogs through VR technology, improve people's awareness of caring for stray animals, provide a social platform for stray dog assistance, and create a harmonious social environment between humans and animals.
The STEAM education team refers to the relevant content of Steam education in domestic and foreign teaching syllabus systems, and cleverly combines programming education and robot education by creating courses such as "Infrared Induction Fan Robot" and "Automotive Intelligent Transformation", mobilizing the interest of parents and children in learning together. They have created the HIGH FIVE brand, aiming to promote STEAM education in the five major categories, tailor teaching to individual needs, and enhance children's hands-on, cognitive, and aesthetic abilities.
After intense competition, the low-carbon group's "Green House", the transportation group's "Smooth M+", and the community pet group's "Come and Feed Dogs" project won the first, second, and third prizes respectively in the "Urban Innovator" summer workshop, and the other teams won 8 individual awards.
The "Green House" team of the Urban Ecology Group won first prize
The "Smooth Traffic M+" team of the transportation team won the second priz
The community pet group's "come to feed dogs" team won the third prize
Subsequently, Guo Hang, a student from the University of Hong Kong, gave his speech on his studies at Tsinghua Park. "After a day of class, he rode his bike to the cafeteria for a meal, maybe played basketball, maybe took a walk on the playground, and then went to the library to continue his studies until 10:30 pm. He walked back to his dormitory to rest in the starry sky and quiet night, and had a good night's sleep." His creative experience at the workshop also made him deeply impressed, "We are people who fight in different fields and do our best to solve a small problem for China, the world, and human civilization, and to pave a better path." Ma Shiwen, a student at the University of Macau, was moved by the team's struggle, We attended classes, discussed, prepared, and had meals together, and our mentor pointed out the direction for us... With the cooperation of our team members, we completed all the challenges and became a City ChangeMaker. We were very happy and excited. Chen Zhiling, a student from Tsinghua University in Hsinchu, said that the gains and growth brought by this event will be helpful for her future work creation and career development.
Fu Zhiyong, the academic director of "Urban Innovators", gave an academic summary of the project. Teacher Fu pointed out that the new changes in this year's "City Maker" workshop - for the first time, students from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and three regions have gathered, and the mentor's background has become more international. Then he affirmed the efforts of his classmates, saying, "They have put forward many valuable solutions, and their efforts at Tsinghua will also turn into a beautiful time. More importantly, he hopes that students can use the knowledge, skills, and thinking methods learned in the workshop to solve more important problems in the future." Finally, he expressed his blessings to the students: "A person from Tsinghua will have a lifelong passion for Tsinghua.". I hope Tsinghua University will become a lighthouse in your learning career, continuing to illuminate your path forward. Welcome you to come back to Tsinghua University to study and further your education, to solve the problems of urban and human development
Subsequently, the organizing committee of the "Urban Entrepreneurs" summer workshop awarded "Outstanding Student" certificates to 11 students including Guo Hang and Zhou Yibo, mentor certificates to 10 mentors including Wu Yao, Zhang Beixi, and Shang Yating, lecturer certificates or thank-you letters to Wang Yadi, Xia Fan, Peng Dengfeng, and 21 volunteers including Wang Zhining.
Group photo of the closing ceremony of "Urban Entrepreneurs"
Finally, amidst the singing of "Cheers" by the volunteers, all the students couldn't help but step up to the front desk, hand in hand, to celebrate together. The 2019 Tsinghua University "Urban Entrepreneurs" Summer Workshop came to a perfect end.