The first CUHK Capstone Project Presentation Competition was organised by the English Language Teaching Unit to provide a university-wide platform for final year students from across the faculties to showcase their public speaking skills and the outcomes of their year-long capstone projects.

Ten contestants, including nine solo entrants and one group entrant, battled their way through the qualifying round in March to compete for the championship at the Grand Final held on 10 May. The finalists each gave a four-minute presentation on their capstone projects with support from a maximum of four visual slides. 

The duo from Data Science and Policy Studies Programme, Miranda Ding Long-tung and Angela Chen Yi-hsuan, took home the championship with their lively and seamless presentation on their project “Exploring attitudes, facilitators and barriers of the grey digital divide in Hong Kong”, which also won them the Audience Choice Award. Minnie Tso Wing-suet, an English Studies and English Language Education major, won the first runner-up by walking the audience through her journey investigating “The effects of Digital Oral Dialogue Journals (DODJ) on learners’ self-regulated speaking in Hong Kong secondary classroom”.

Two contestants were honoured with the second runner-up for their equally outstanding performances – Psychology major Esther Tang Hiu-lam on her project “Can I help you even though you cannot hear me?” and Risk Management Science major Hung Kim-pong on his project “Cased-based reasoning approach for financial risk detection”. The Creativity Award went to Ng Chi-kit from the Department of Electronic Engineering, who came up with creative analogies to help listeners understand his work on “Enhancing autonomy in flexible robotic surgery through DRL”.

Winning performances of the contestants will be showcased on the competition website.