Guangdong Light Industry Vocational and Technical College students in preparation for the competition (correspondent photo).
Turn silk into "fur", provide intelligent detection for subway tunnels, solve the problem of white mulch film pollution, and customize brand font libraries for enterprises... These innovative and entrepreneurial projects, which are both tall and grounded, are from the hands of Guangdong university students.
In the 7th China International "Internet +" College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition National Finals, Guangdong won a total of 27 gold and 53 silver in various tracks, walking in the forefront of the country. To this end, the Reporter of Guangzhou Daily visited relevant colleges and universities to explore the secret of their achievements. They said that building a mechanism, building a platform, "helping the horse to send a ride", and integrating innovation and entrepreneurship education into the whole process of talent training can provide a solid guarantee for outstanding young people to emerge.
Text/Guangzhou Daily all-media reporters Lin Xiahong, Liu Xiaoxing, Wang Jing, Zeng Jun Correspondents Lin Yiru, Li Hainan, Lu Di
The number of gold awards won in Guangdong hit a record high
Since the launch of the competition in May this year, 250,900 projects have been registered in Guangdong Province, with more than 1.02 million students participating, and the number of projects and attendance has reached a new high in the past year, and a total of 76 projects have been shortlisted for the national finals. In the national finals, Guangdong won a total of 27 gold and 53 silver in various tracks, and the number of gold awards reached a record high, and the total number of gold awards ranked third in the country. Among them, the participating projects in Guangdong Province won 6 gold awards of the main circuit of higher education, 3 gold awards of the "Youth Red Dream Building Tour", 8 gold awards of the vocational education track, 3 gold awards of the industrial proposition track, and 7 innovation potential awards of the budding track.
While the province's performance is good, all kinds of colleges and universities have also given full play to their role as "bellwethers". South China University of Technology has won 3 gold awards and 6 silver awards for 9 finalist projects. Guangdong University of Technology has achieved good results of 1 gold, 8 silver and 1 bronze, and has a presence in cutting-edge fields such as new materials, artificial intelligence, digital twins, semiconductor chips, high-end equipment, 5G technology, and biological genetic engineering. The total number of gold awards and medals of Guangzhou University also won the "double breakthrough", the gold award ranked second in the province, and the third time won the "Youth Red Dream Building Journey" collective award.
Guangdong Light Industry Vocational and Technical College won 2 gold awards, 1 bronze award, the number of gold awards, gold award rate, award type have a new breakthrough, in the past three years, the total number of gold, silver and 2 bronze in the national competition, the provincial competition 9 gold, silver and 8 bronze. Guangzhou Urban Construction Vocational College became the first private vocational college in China to win the national competition gold award, and the level and number of awards made breakthroughs, and the number of participating projects and numbers increased significantly.
Guangzhou Panyu Vocational and Technical College (hereinafter referred to as Fanyu Vocational College) has won the first gold medal in the national competition of Guangdong vocational education in China's "Internet +" college students' innovation and entrepreneurship competition in 2019, and has won 2 gold and 2 silver in the national competition and 6 gold, 12 silver and 2 bronze in the provincial competition in the past three years, ranking the forefront of the country.
Guangzhou's "Young General" budding track shines brightly
The Budding Track is the only sub-track open to high school students across the country, aiming to promote innovation and entrepreneurship quality education, and middle school students in Guangzhou shined on the track, winning a total of 5 projects, the Innovation Potential Award, accounting for a quarter of the country's awards, a record high. Guangdong Experimental Middle School, Guangzhou Zhixin Middle School, Affiliated Middle School of Guangzhou University, Guangzhou Foreign Chinese School have all won the highest awards for their projects, and these award-winning designs focus on life, health and safe travel, which can be said to be quite "loving" designs.
"We've been working on this project since we started our first year of high school, and it's been more than a year now." Chen Hualun, a member of the provincial "Guide" team, told reporters that although the high school is busy, students use weekends, winter and summer vacations to discuss, design, produce, debug, modify, and sometimes even busy until the early morning. "All kinds of design difficulties, technical difficulties, and learning difficulties are like boulders, but none of the team members are discouraged, joking with each other while exploring ways to solve difficulties." Chen Hualun said.
The reporter learned that the excellent results of Guangzhou students are attributed to Guangzhou's vigorous promotion of the cultivation of top-notch innovative talents in ordinary high schools in recent years. Guangzhou has cooperated with the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences to set up 18 experimental schools of the Chinese Academy of Education Sciences project, and tried to enroll independent students in 22 ordinary high schools; cooperated with Sun Yat-sen University, South China University of Technology and the Guangzhou Institute of Energy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to hold the "Talent Program" science and technology special training camp for middle school students with scientific and technological expertise; built a platform for the exchange and display of youth science and technology education achievements, and formed three major brand science and technology education special events such as the Youth Science and Technology Innovation Competition, the Primary and Secondary School Students Science Popularization Knowledge Competition, and the Science and Technology Maker TELEVISION Competition.
The "specialized integration" model cultivates high-order composite capabilities
"Before entering fan vocational college, I did not expect that one day I would be able to develop new materials in the school and exercise my comprehensive ability through participating in the project." Guo Yufeng, co-founder of the gold medal project "Silk Fur", said. Ouyang Li, vice president of Fan Vocational College, said that the school's implementation of double-creation education has cultivated students' high-level composite abilities, which are also crucial when students move towards future jobs. Ye Yongping, dean of the school of art at the school, said that the college has long integrated the concept of innovation and entrepreneurship into teaching, and students have cultivated their will and fighting spirit through the competition.
"Our school regards the ability and quality of students' innovation and entrepreneurship as the core competitiveness of talents to focus on cultivating, and is committed to cultivating innovative and applied talents that meet the development needs of the industrial industry." Li Zhenxian, director of the Student Career Guidance Center of Guangdong University of Technology, introduced that the school's exploration in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship education started earlier, and in recent years, taking advantage of the national double innovation policy, the school's innovation and entrepreneurship education has accumulated a lot, the hardware and software environment of related teaching practices has been comprehensively improved, the campus innovation and entrepreneurship atmosphere is strong, and the students' employment and entrepreneurship ability has been significantly improved.
Liao Junjie, vice president of Guangdong Light Industry Vocational and Technical College, said that the results of the national competition in the past three years are inseparable from the model of "integration of professional education and innovation and entrepreneurship education". The school encourages teachers to transform scientific research projects into innovative courses, open to professional students to choose, students in the depth of learning to determine the interest, based on the scientific research results of entrepreneurial mentors, real technology (products) of enterprises, the formation of entrepreneurial teams, simulated innovation and entrepreneurship practice, accumulate relevant experience. So far, the project has won 24 awards at or above the provincial level, 12 student teams have registered companies, 7 patents have been obtained, and the proportion of innovative and entrepreneurial talent training has exceeded 10%, "Higher vocational students have strong hands-on hard skills, but they need to cultivate soft qualities such as communication, cooperation, execution, and leadership, and these dual innovation platforms are particularly good opportunities." ”
One-stop full-chain service to get good ideas to land
In view of the practical problems of college students' enthusiasm for innovation and entrepreneurship but lack of ability, major colleges and universities also provide students with all-round innovation and entrepreneurship support from the aspects of teachers, training, venues, funds, etc., and formulate special policies to ensure the implementation. Qiu Mohe, dean of the School of Entrepreneurship Education of Guangzhou Urban Construction Vocational College, said that the entrepreneurship management center provides continuous support for students, guidance on the whole process of enterprise incubation, and one-stop service through various forms.
Huagong plays the functions of "incubator" and "safe haven", integrates school and social resources, establishes a relatively complete innovation and entrepreneurship guidance service system, opens "entrepreneurship minor classes" for students with entrepreneurial intentions, and forms "entrepreneurial elite classes" for students with entrepreneurial projects, and provides corresponding services at different stages such as embryonic stage, start-up stage, growth stage, and maturity period.
Guangdong University of Technology built in 2015 to create a valley for about 100 students innovation and entrepreneurship team to settle in the incubation, students can get from innovation and creativity to entrepreneurship of the whole chain of incubation services, after the project mature "incubation", the school also has a collaborative innovation platform and entrepreneurial incubators throughout the province to further help the development of entrepreneurial projects and the transformation of achievements.
Guangzhou University has leading "three innovations" talent cultivation and project incubation facilities, through the construction of a one-stop "production-research-student-investment" platform (social and enterprise needs, university teachers' scientific research achievements, entrepreneurial college students, financial investment institutions) platform, improve the complete innovation and entrepreneurship project cultivation and incubation chain, gather universities and social three innovation resources.
"For college students' entrepreneurship, participating in the entrepreneurial competition is an accelerator of entrepreneurial success, which can obtain more and better mentor resources, market resources and financial support, and efficiently and comprehensively enhance the ability of innovation and entrepreneurship." Li Zhenxian stressed that it is necessary for college students to participate in various innovation and entrepreneurship projects, which can effectively stimulate students' innovative thinking, team awareness, and obtain business opportunities, break through the barrier between scientific research innovation and social entrepreneurship, and enhance problem awareness, market awareness and risk awareness.
The winning project has great potential for follow-up
"After getting on the horse, give it a ride." Liao Junjie said that for the winning projects of the national competition, the school will focus on tracking students after graduation, and use platforms such as school-enterprise incubators to implement phased management of seed stage, seedling stage and industrial stage. The reporter noted that the energy emitted by the mechanism and system is emerging, and many projects born on campus have good market potential. In 2013, Wu Bin, a student of the school, started a business from a second-hand printer in the dormitory, serving the needs of students' printing, and using technology to empower the traditional printing industry, the project won last year's national competition gold award, and has received three rounds of financing, with a valuation of nearly 200 million yuan.
Guangzhou University has also successfully incubated a number of influential enterprises in the industry, such as "Guangzhou Five-Six Point Education Information Technology Co., Ltd." and "Post-graduation Public Welfare Fund", which have obtained tens of millions of investments and valuations of over 100 million. Guangzhou Hongqi Shengshi Enterprise Management Co., Ltd., which was incubated by Guangzhou Urban Construction Vocational College, is expected to have an operating income of 30 million yuan in 2021 and serve more than 500 enterprises per year.
Li Zhenxian frankly said that the competition in the school is still different from the competition of "real knives and real guns" in the real environment. For students who aspire to innovate and start a business, they should seize the opportunity to improve their own and the "hard-core" strength of the project. According to his observation, companies that develop relatively well after "incubation" do have their "hard-core" strength, "like-minded teams, the recognition of social resources, lay such a foundation in the early stage, and the commercial chain is not easy to break." ”
Gold Award Case:
"Technology + art" makes silk "fur"
In this competition, the project of "New Silk Road - Pioneer of Silk Fur" of Guangzhou Panyu Vocational and Technical College won the gold medal of the vocational education track. Guo Yufeng, co-founder of the project team and a junior majoring in arts and crafts design at the school, said that the school put forward the concept of "environmentally friendly fur" eight years ago. "On the basis of summarizing and collating the research data of our brothers and sisters, we found that the protein content, heat retention rate, air permeability, moisture absorption rate and other important parameters of silk fiber are very similar to animal fibers, so we considered taking silk as a breakthrough." After thousands of experiments, a highly simulated "silk fur" was finally produced.
At present, "silk fur" can be imitated into otter rabbit hair, beach wool, sheep wool, goat wool, fox fur and other animal furs, the appearance and feel are very realistic, and the cost is much smaller than animal fur, the future ordinary people can also afford to consume. This year, "Silk Fur" was also unveiled at Paris Fashion Week.
"Our art design is a cross-border 'technology + art', that is, the use of science and technology to achieve art." Liu Kejiang, project instructor and deputy dean of the School of Art and Design of Fan Vocational College, told reporters that Fan Vocational College has the professional support of the national "double high" professional group, and has established the Guangdong Leather Intelligent Product 3D Printing Application Engineering Technology Research Center and the Guangdong Provincial Art Design Technology Collaborative Innovation Center, which provides a research basis for the development of the project. "Now we have only entered the 2.0 stage, and in the future we will expand the category of 'silk fur' to further improve its simulation." At the same time, it is also necessary to imitate 'leather' through 3D printing technology. Looking to the future, Liu Said.