On the morning of March, 24, the launch ceremony of “Freeway” national campus electronics design competition was held in the academic hall of the student center on West Campus. Lu Ming, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Wu Hong, the general manager of Freeway Electronics Co.Ltd, and the relating leaders from Anhui Provincial Office of Science and Technology, Anhui Provincial Office of Information Industry and Huizhou Technology Burea, all attended this launching ceremony. The pertaining teacher and about 200 students from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, School of Information Science and Technology of USTC, School of Software Engineering of USTC took part in this ceremony at the meanwhile. Zhu Dongjie, the Secretary of the School Committee, hosted this launching ceremony.

Chen Xianping, the inspector from Anhui Provincial Office of Science and Technology, said that University of Science and Technology of China, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China are the four key universities, all of which boast of great strength with an innovative spirit. It is of significance that these four universities came together to this competition. It amounts to a kind of powerful combination. He wished for success in holding this competition.

As the representative of USTC, Lu Ming firstly warmly welcame the present guests and thank Freeway Electronics Co.Ltd --the organizer of this competition. She pointed out that cultivating the innovative talents was not only the focus of our education work, but also the need of the social development. We always attached importance to creative thinking ability and hands-on capacity. Meanwhile, we advocated students’ amateur activities of science and technology, including various competitions of science and technology. She said that this competition was characterized by a high starting point, strong teamwork, being target-oriented and etc. She wished that the contestants would achieve good results in this competition.

Wu Hong, the executive director and general manager of Freeway Electronics Co.Ltd, mentioned his understanding of talents’ cultivation and value innovation, integrating his personal experience of studying in USTC. In this way, he shared with everyone his particular feeling and knowledge of enterprise management and teamwork construction. He sincerely hoped that this competition could provide for the participants with an opportunity and platform, by which everyone can exchange ideas and promote their friendship.

The representatives of organizing committee and the jury from all participating universities expressed their feeling and understanding of this significance of this competition successively. They introduced what all universities have done and have achieved in talents’cultivation and innovation-based construction. Then, the opening ceremony of all the competition areas took place.

"Freeway" national campus electronics design competition aims to enrich the forms and contents of students’ electronics design competition, improve the teaching contents of information electronics majors, promote the construction of curriculum system and labs, enhance the intercollegiate communication in embedded system research & teaching, arouse the learning initiative of students and cultivate their innovation awareness and hands-on scientific spirit. After the competition is launched, a series of training and exchange activities will be taken. The participating work is evaluated in respective competition areas and then the ultimate ranking is confirmed by the national joint evaluation.

(The Youth League; School of Information Science & Technology)