In March 2025, the 23rd "San Hang Cup" University Student Innovation Competition of Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU) was successfully concluded. As the longest-running, largest-participating, most widely-disciplined top-tier university-level brand competition for university students' scientific and technological innovation at NWPU, the competition focuses on scientific and technological innovation in the fields of aeronautics, astronautics and marine engineering, with its reach extending to interdisciplinary innovation across all academic disciplines. It serves as the university's core platform for selecting and cultivating seed teams for national and international sci-tech innovation competitions, as well as incubating high-level university student sci-tech innovation achievements.For this edition, the competition set up multiple competition units, including the Innovation Training Category and Entrepreneurship Practice Category under the main track, as well as special tracks. It attracted nearly 1,000 participating teams from all schools of the university and over 4,000 undergraduate, master's and doctoral students across all academic stages to sign up for the competition. Both the scale of participation and the quality of entries set a new all-time high.
After preliminary correspondence review, on-site final defense, multiple rounds of rigorous review and comprehensive scoring by the competition's expert committee, only more than ten of the highest-level Gold Awards were granted for the Innovation Training Category of the main track in this competition. The winning rate of the Gold Award was less than 2% of the participating teams in this track, reflecting extremely stringent selection criteria.The participating team in this track carried out systematic innovative research targeting core technical challenges in the field, and fully completed the full workflow of theoretical innovation, core technology R&D, prototype fabrication, and performance testing and verification. The research achievements boast both outstanding academic innovation and engineering application value, and the team finally won the Gold Award in the Innovation Training Category of the main track with outstanding results.