Recently, the 8th China Collegiate Computing Contest - Mobile Application Innovation Contest, hosted by the Computer Education Research Association of Chinese Universities and jointly organized by Zhejiang University and Apple Inc., was held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. More than 2,800 teams from 891 universities and colleges nationwide and abroad participated in the competition.

Three undergraduate students from Beihang university, namely, Hong Mingkun from the School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Wang Yu from the School of New Media Art and Design, and Fan Wu Yunwei from the School of Computer Science and Engineering, formed a cross-disciplinary innovation team and successfully won the first prize of the national award (AR category) with their work Bee Hero. Fang Zhou, an undergraduate studentfrom the Department of Industrial Design of Beihang University, Tang Yilin, a graduate student from the School of Software in Zhejiang University (previously an undergraduate student studied in the Department of Industrial Design of Beihang University from 2018 to 2022), Xu Tianyi, an undergraduate student majoring in computer science in the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), formed an inter-university team and claimed the third national prize with their work Nong Ying. Wang Yun, a faculty member of the School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, and Shan Wang, a faculty member of the School of New Media Art and Design, received the Outstanding Instructor Award.

China Collegiate Computing Contest (C4) is a science and technology competition for students of various majors in colleges and universities across China. It was jointly founded by the Teaching Guidance Committee for Computer Science Majors in Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education (MOE), the Teaching Guidance Committee for Software Engineering Majors in Higher Education Institutions of the MOE, the Teaching Guidance Committee for Computer Courses in Colleges of Higher Education of the MOE, and the National Association of Higher Education Computer Education in China (NACECECE) in 2016. Since 2019, the “Mobile Application Innovation Competition” has been featured in the “National Colleges and Universities Competition List” by the China Association of Higher Education.

Written by: Fang Zhou, Wang Yun

Reviewed by: Zhang Zhigang

Edited by: Jia Aiping

Translated by: Hu Xueyang