At the Asia Pacific Seeds for the Future Tech4Good Competition organised by Huawei Group in Shenzen, China, with the SkyNet project which supports the search for flood victims, PTIT’s students and other Vietnamese team members won the first prize. With this result, the team will advance to the Tech4Good Global Competition next year.

The Vietnamese team has won a first prize at the Asia Pacific Seeds for the Future Tech4Good Competition organised by Huawei Group in Shenzen, China, with the SkyNet project which supports the search for flood victims. With this result, it will advance to the Tech4Good Global Competition next year.

The Vietnamese team comprises six students from four leading universities in Vietnam, including Mai Thi Phuong, Nguyen Thi Thu Trang and Dinh Hoang Anh from the Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology; Pham Quynh Trang from VinUniversity; Cao Sy Duong from the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, and Tran Dang Nam from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Transport.

At the competition, the Vietnamese squad competed with 24 teams from 24 other countries in the region. After two consecutive rounds, the Vietnamese team won the first prize with the SkyNet project, which was devised based on the context of super typhoon Yagi that just caused economic damage of 2 billion USD to Vietnam. The team from Cambodia also won a first prize.

The project was developed based on the application of drones, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and AI technology to support search and rescue of victims in flooded areas in a faster and smarter manner. The cost of the project was also optimised to bring economic benefits and diverse application scenarios when it is commercialised to the market.

Congratulating the achievements of the PTIT’s students, Associate Professor, Dr. Dang Hoai Bac – President of PTIT shared that “This is also a victory that continues the success of PTIT’s students when PTIT continuously has students entering the best round of the competition and achieving high prizes every year. PTIT hopes to work with global Big Tech enterprises to develop digital talent in Vietnam through activities connecting businesses with students, co-organizing competitions and building training programs, and participating in educational support activities”.

Tech4Good is a startup project competition organised by Huawei with the aim of raising students’ awareness of local sustainable development challenges, along with capturing the latest digital trends, thereby developing technically and commercially feasible solutions to solve social problems./.