Date:May 29th,2019  
Source: JNU Youth League Committee  
Author: Gu Long

All 30 of JNU's entries won prizes in the finals of the 15th Challenge Cup, a competition in Guangdong undergraduate extracurricular academic science and technology activities, in Foshan from May 24 to 26. JNU won 3 special prizes, 11 first prizes, 7 second prizes and 9 third prizes, as well as the Excellence Cup. Zhang Guangjun, vice governor of the Guangdong People's Government, attended the opening ceremony. JNU Vice President Rao Min and Cheng Pinxing, secretary of JNU Youth League Committee, led JNU's delegation.

（Zhang Guangjun attended the opening ceremony.）

The competition published 29 papers, among them 25 SCI and EI articles, and four in Chinese core journals. Seventeen more papers are being submitted, and three patents for invention and seven for utility models were granted, a new high in the quantity and quality of work. The Special Prize project Photon Spin Hall Effect on Interface and Its Application in Information Processing was led by Lin Hai's team from the Polytechnic Institute of Technology. Team members have published six relevant SCI articles and submitted one SCI paper during their undergraduate work, and Lin Hai was granted the opportunity to further his doctoral work at Peking University.

The Special Award project Research on High-Performance Sensor and Modulation Devices Based on Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Sulfides is led by Shen Zhiran's team from the Polytechnic Institute of Technology. It has published two SCI TOP A1 papers, with two more being submitted, and has two provincial and ministerial awards, four awards at the school level and one patent application just submitted. Team members were granted the opportunity for further study at Sun Yat-sen University.
The grand prize project Coupled Cavity Passively Q-Switched Yellow Light Solid State Laser with Adjustable Pulse Energy was conducted by Chen Yinyao's team from JNU's Institute of Technology. To date, the team has published three relevant articles, received a invention patent, and been nominated as the key provincial Climbing Plan project and national innovation project. Wei Lijun, a member of the project, was granted the opportunity to further his doctoral work in Macquarie University in Australia.

(JNU teams shared results with others from different universities.)

The contest, jointly held by Guangdong's League Committee, Education Department, Science and Technology Department, Science Association and Federation of Schools and the Foshan municipal government, kicked off in March.

Of the 2,627 entries from 137 universities, 751 works from 116 universities reached  the finals after fierce competition.