UM students win second prize in information communications technology competition 澳大學生於資訊科技賽獲獎

A team of students from the Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) of the University of Macau (UM) represented Macao in the 8th Huawei ICT Competition Asia Pacific 2023-2024 and won the second prize in the Cloud Track. The UM team will participate in the global final of the competition in Shenzhen in May.

The competition, held in Jakarta, Indonesia, witnessed the participation of over 6,400 top students from 14 countries and regions in Asia Pacific. Under the theme ‘Connection, Glory, and Future’, the competition included four tracks: Innovation, Network, Cloud, and Computing. The UM team, comprising FST students Wong Iok Keong, Zhou Wenjie and Xie Daixu who won the regional competition in Macao last year, competed in the Asia Pacific final under the guidance of U Leong Hou, head of the Centre for Data Science of the Institute of Collaborative Innovation and associate professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science of FST at UM.

澳門大學科技學院學生團隊代表澳門參與“第八屆華為資訊與通訊科技（ICT）技能競賽2023—2024亞太區決賽”，與亞太地區13個國家與地區的6,400多位頂尖學生競逐，並在雲端賽道中取得二等獎。澳大團隊將代表澳門競逐5月在深圳舉行的全球總決賽。

是次賽事在印尼雅加達舉行，以“連結、榮耀、未來”為主題，共設創新、網路、雲端、運算4條賽道。繼去年勝出“華為資訊與通訊科技（ICT）技能競賽澳門站”後，澳大科技學院學生黃育強、周文杰和解戴旭在指導教授、澳大協同創新研究院數據科學研究中心主任及科技學院電腦及資訊科學系副教授余亮豪協助下，成功代表澳門在雲端賽道比賽中奪得二等獎。

獲獎的澳大學生均表示，通過參與是次競賽，不僅在實踐提升了ICT技能，更在跨文化交流中拓展了全球視野，進一步提升了解決複雜問題和創新應用的能力。

比賽由華為與東協基金會聯合舉辦，旨在增強青年學生的資訊與通訊技術知識和實踐技能，考驗學生共同解決實際情境中的問題。