| Dear Students:
"Smart Campus needs your Great Intelligence: 2019 UM Mobile APP Development Competition"
I. Background and Purpose
With the rapid development of information technology, University of Macau is faced with the massive expansion of information systems and enormous variety of data. Creating the Smart Campus needs your great intelligence and your participation truly makes a difference. By making use of the UM’s Open Data portal, this Hackathon aims to seek innovative solutions to challenges associated with campus living and learning.
Under the Smart Campus framework leveraging information technologies as an enabler to support education reform, nurturing talent and fostering innovations, every UM member can contribute to its implementation. Therefore, UM has created the Open Data API portal (https://data.umac.mo/) to harness the creativity of students and staff to develop new groundbreaking applications with their ideas. This platform shares a great variety of data with UM members, such as energy consumption, news and events, courses and schedule, venue booking etc.
A Smart Campus requires your wisdom and engagement to unleash a positive impact. UM has a wide variety of data captured by systems and devices. The data is readily available, but how do we transform it into wisdom? This Mobile APP Development Competition aims to provide participants with dynamically equipped resources and use emerging technologies as a means to embrace big data and promote talent training model innovation.
II. Format, Date and Location
Format: The competing teams shall use the provided open data to develop and design the APP model. The competition will be divided into two stages, firstly a proposal that describes the solution to one of the problems (choose one from the following three). The proposal has to be written in Chinese or English, within 10 A4 pages (including pictures, charts and appendices). After entering the finals, the teams shall submit an executable prototype and participate in the final presentation. Please see the table below for details.
In general, after the proposal review stage, the top teams (in general 4 to 5 teams for each problem statement) would be announced as evaluated by the judging committee.
Problem statement (choose one from the following three): To be announced by 18 September 2019
| Date/ Time | Items | Remarks |
| August 2019 | Registration of APP Competition starts |  |
| 18 September 2019
5:30pm – 6:30pm | Competition Briefing and Introducing the Open Data API portal
· Competition Briefing
· Introducing how to operate the platform and data definition
| Venue: N1-1004, Lecture Room, Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Please bring your notebooks and other necessary materials
Please click here to register the Briefing |
| 30 September 2019 | Deadline of registration | |
| 11 October 2019 | Deadline of the proposal submission | The proposal has to be written in Chinese or English within10 A4 pages (included pictures, charts and appendices) |
| 30 October 2019 or before | Announcement of teams entering the finals (12-15 teams) | |
| 20 November 2019
5:00pm | Teams entering the finals need to submit the executable source code, related documentation (such as README) and the required files (such as PowerPoint) | Details of the submission of documents will be announced later |
| 27 November 2019
1:00pm | Final presentation
Each team would be given 10 minutes for presentation, and 10 minutes for question and answer | Venue: 1st Floor of UM Guest House (N1), Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship |
| 27 November 2019
7:00pm | Award dinner | Venue: Ground floor of UM Guest House (N1) |
III. Registration and target
1. While the target is students from various departments of the University of Macau, cross-disciplinary teams are encouraged to develop the creativity of students. The registration form can be downloaded from the 2019 UM Mobile APP Development Competition Website. Upon receiving a confirmation email, a deposit of MOP500 each team would be charged and then refunded in full after finishing the competition.
2. In order to promote the UM Smart Campus initiative and STEM education, the competition welcomes all high schools in Macao to participate.
IV. Award
Teams entering the finals will receive a proposal award
Proposal Award |
Cash MOP2,000,
Certificate |
In the final stage, there will be first prize(s), distinguished secondary school prize(s) and outstanding prize(s) according to the number of participating teams. Under normal circumstances, each question statement group will have at least one first prize awardee and one distinguished secondary school prize awardee.
Outstanding Prize | Distinguished Secondary School Prize | First Prize |
Cash MOP2,000,
Certificate and trophy | Cash MOP3,000,
Certificate and trophy | Cash MOP8,000,
Certificate and trophy |
V. Details Inforamtion
Please click the following link for details:
https://cie.ici.um.edu.mo/news/2019-app-competition/
 App competition (Eng) 2019 Regulation.pdf
VI. Sponsor
Bank of China (Macau Branch)
Companhia de Electricidade de Macau - CEM, S.A.
VII. Co-organizers
Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Information and Communication Technology Office
University of Macau “Macao Base for Primary & Secondary STEM Education Centre for Science and Engineering Promotion”
VIII. For enquiry
1. Registration and Competition: Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
2. UM Open Data API Platform: Information and Communications Technology Office
Best Regards,
Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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