The 3rd National Life Sciences Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition was held at Jiangsu Normal University during August 7 and 9. This competition was hosted by China Higher Education Life Sciences Professional Teaching Supervisory Committee, Higher Education National Experiment Demonstration Association and Editorial Office of Biology Teaching in University, and organized by Jiangsu Normal University, Office of Laboratories and Equipment, Department of Teaching and Academic Affairs and School of Life Sciences.
Since the enrolling system was started, 1,654 pieces of works from over 200 colleges signed up. Totally, there were 542 pieces of works entering the final after qualification inspection, semi-final and quarterfinal.
China Higher Education Life Sciences Professional Teaching Supervisory Committee paid much attention to this competition. In all, 156 experts took part in the Internet Review and the final, most of who were members of MOE supervisory committees. 91 judges in the final were all professors from famous universities or managers in enterprises.
All teams made presentation with PowerPoint, illustrating experiment design, experiment or survey content and follow-up results and trying to present the seriousness, scientific nature and innovation of their experiments. At last, there were 285 first prizes and 46 excellent prizes.
At this competition, 5 works of School of Life Sciences won the First Prize, 3 won the Second Prize and 3 won the Third Prize. Among them, “Research and Development of Ginkgo Polysaccharide Functional Drinks” conducted a road show at the award ceremony, winning heated applause of the audience.
