Cross-Strait innovators win together
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FIVE students from Chiayi University in Taiwan won the top prize in this year’s Cross-Strait Youth Maker Competition yesterday.
They won an award and 10,000 yuan (US$1,460) for a system that monitors harmful gases, such as carbon monoxide, in the home, and alerts householders via their smartphones when danger threatens. The system can also open windows and start fans to extract the polluted air.
“We are trying to give residents and authorities more time to take action and avoid casualties,” said maker Chen Yi-Yi.
The competition, with sections for adults and teenagers, requires competitors to design and make products of social and commercial value, and come up with sustainable development plans within 48 hours.
Besides the top winners, other adult competitors showed their creativity through a pyramid coffee cup that prevents liquid from splashing out and musical instruments made of paper with ultrasonic sensors to detect the position of the fingers.
The two winners in the teenage group presented a tennis practice system and a method of delivering packages under elevated roads.
The competition, the third organized by Shanghai’s Taiwan Affairs Office, Tongji University and others, attracted more than 210 students from Taiwan and the mainland.
“The event has become an influential platform for young people from Taiwan and the mainland to communicate and develop creative ideas,” said Zhang Zhijun, president of the mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait.
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