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| Source: Samsung Electronics Malaysia. The three winning teams and the team who took home the People’s Choice award in a victory photo with (standing, from the second from left) Dato' Roh Jae Yeol, Director of Corporate Affairs, Samsung Malaysia Electronics; Datuk Dr Mohd Yusoff Sulaiman; CEO, alaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology and Lee Sang Hoon, President, Samsung Malaysia Electronics. |
Solve For Tomorrow challenges university students to conceptualise solutions that touch on topical issues and real challenges that Malaysians are facing today.
Twenty teams competed at the finale with working prototypes to real life problems, after which 10 finalists presented their ideas and the prototypes to Ken Ding, Head of Product Innovation, South East Asia & Oceania, Samsung Electronics; Professor Madya Dr Arham Abdullah, Director, Industry Relations at the Ministry of Education; Rushdi Abdul Rahim, Senior Vice President, MiGHT (Malaysia Industry-Government Group for High Technology), Tan Eng Hoo, Founder & Vice President, MyTRIZ and Mohd Yazid bin Sairi, Assistant Director, Industry Relations, Ministry of Higher Education.
"With Solve For Tomorrow, Malaysian students can take an active stance in making a positive change for all through using their ideas and creativity with technology. We want to support the government's focus on a holistic approach to education, through the emphasis of science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics," said Lee Sang Hoon, President of Samsung Malaysia Electronics.
"Continued focus and investment in science and technology is what Malaysia needs if we hope to have sustainable growth beyond 2020 and stay ahead of our economic competitors. In this respect, we see the parallel between Samsung Solve For Tomorrow and the Government's Science to Action (S2A) Programme to transform the economy in areas that touch the lives of the nation," said Datuk Dr Mohd Yusoff Sulaiman, Chief Executive Officer, MiGHT in his keynote address.
"It pains me to see my grandmother facing difficulty walking up the stairs or walking for long distances. That's why I believe this idea can change lives," said Ching Weng Gui, a team member for LEE, a cost effective lower body brace. "Each and every one of us will get old. We will eventually face the difficulty our grandparents face now and that's why I feel this device will help us all one day," he added.
For Maslan Alam Malik from Monash, it was about making physiotherapy more fun – his IPRD prototype allows the user to control a computer/mobile game wirelessly by using their muscle contractions through surface EMGs for physiotherapy. Recorded data is then analysed to determine the rate of fatigue and point of muscle failure.
A wheelchair that uses flex sensors to detect finger motions to control a wheelchair proved to be the winning idea.
TARUC also took home the People's Choice Award, given to the Insect Zapper project. The concept uses a racquet-style object to zap flying insects with an increasing swing area while utilising less wrist energy.
To further reinforce the power of transformative ideas, the top three winners will travel to South Korea to spend time with key minds at the Samsung headquarters. They also received a RM60,000 seed grant to improve and advance their prototypes, an internship at Samsung Malaysia and Samsung devices.
This first Solve For Tomorrow competition in Malaysia, supported by the Ministry of Education, garnered 108 submissions across five Demo Days at selected university hubs, covering different zones. The competition was open to public and private university students nationwide.
"Continued focus and investment in science and technology is what Malaysia needs if we hope to have sustainable growth beyond 2020 and stay ahead of our economic competitors. In this respect, we see the parallel between Samsung Solve For Tomorrow and the Government's Science to Action (S2A) Programme to transform the economy in areas that touch the lives of the nation," said Datuk Dr Mohd Yusoff Sulaiman, Chief Executive Officer, MiGHT in his keynote address.
"It pains me to see my grandmother facing difficulty walking up the stairs or walking for long distances. That's why I believe this idea can change lives," said Ching Weng Gui, a team member for LEE, a cost effective lower body brace. "Each and every one of us will get old. We will eventually face the difficulty our grandparents face now and that's why I feel this device will help us all one day," he added.
For Maslan Alam Malik from Monash, it was about making physiotherapy more fun – his IPRD prototype allows the user to control a computer/mobile game wirelessly by using their muscle contractions through surface EMGs for physiotherapy. Recorded data is then analysed to determine the rate of fatigue and point of muscle failure.
A wheelchair that uses flex sensors to detect finger motions to control a wheelchair proved to be the winning idea.
TARUC also took home the People's Choice Award, given to the Insect Zapper project. The concept uses a racquet-style object to zap flying insects with an increasing swing area while utilising less wrist energy.
To further reinforce the power of transformative ideas, the top three winners will travel to South Korea to spend time with key minds at the Samsung headquarters. They also received a RM60,000 seed grant to improve and advance their prototypes, an internship at Samsung Malaysia and Samsung devices.
This first Solve For Tomorrow competition in Malaysia, supported by the Ministry of Education, garnered 108 submissions across five Demo Days at selected university hubs, covering different zones. The competition was open to public and private university students nationwide.
Samsung inaugurated Solve For Tomorrow in the US in 2010. Since then, Solve For Tomorrow has been introduced in Asia, where it was launched in Hong Kong in 2013 and in Singapore in 2014. Solve For Tomorrow is part of the Samsung Global Corporate Citizenship initiative in the core area of education, and employs creative technology for the betterment of local communities.
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