Project of Nghe An mountainous students won third prize at the national startup idea competition

On the afternoon of March 26, in Hue city, the Ministry of Education and Training coordinated with the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union to organize the closing ceremony of the Festival.start upNational Student and Student Awards Ceremony of the 5th "Students with Startup Ideas" Competition.

Previously, the competition was launched in November 2022 and the organizing committee received 508 projects in 5 fields: Industry, product manufacturing; agriculture, forestry, fishery; education, tourism, services, finance; healthcare, health care, beauty technology and business creating social impact.

From 508 projects, the organizing committee selected 80 best projects for the voting and final rounds of the competition. Of these, there were 50 projects from university students and 30 projects from high school students.

The contest organizers awarded the third prize to the group of authors. Photo: NVCC

In the end, the organizing committee awarded 80 prizes in two categories: students and pupils; including 10 first prizes, 20 second prizes, 30 third prizes and 20 consolation prizes. In addition, the organizing committee also awarded 4 additional prizes for the project that won the vote and the project that won the booth prize.

In this year's competition, Nghe An Department of Education and Training submitted 4 projects to the competition. However, only 1 project made it to the final round and was awarded the third prize and the only voting prize for students, which is the project "Smart Lock Helmet - Automatically turn off the vehicle when not wearing a helmet". The project belongs to the field: Business creating social impact by a group of authors studying in grade 9 from Quy Hop Secondary School including: Tran Nhu Ngoc, Hoang Dang Nhat, Tran Bao Ngoc, Vi Dinh Tue Anh, Le Nguyen Phuong Linh. The direct instructor is teacher Nguyen Dinh Hoang.

Previously, this project was awarded Second Prize at the Science and Technology Innovation Competition for high school students in the 2022-2023 school year.

Delegation of teachers and students from Nghe An attended the 5th “Students with Startup Ideas” contest in Hue city. Photo: NVCC

Through discussion, the representative of the group of authors also said: Realizing that many students participating in traffic do not wear helmets, wear substandard fashion helmets, a group of students from Quy Hop Town Secondary School researched and created the Smart Lock helmet. The Smart Lock helmet focuses on the feature of turning off the vehicle when taking off the helmet, which no other product or project has done. The product is integrated with RFID technology that is being applied on new generation smart keys for cars and motorbikes, with a battery life of over 2 years and many features such as anti-theft, anti-piggyback, positioning via app...

The project's target customers are parents whose children use motorbikes and electric vehicles every day without wearing helmets or wearing helmets just to cope.

The group of authors and teachers directly instructing Quy Hop Secondary School and the Smart Lock helmet product. Photo: NVCC

The Smart Lock helmet works like a smart key on new cars and motorbikes. When a motorbike uses a smart key, it will unlock the vehicle when approaching. When driving without a key or the key is out of battery, a warning light will appear on the screen. The development team takes advantage of the feature of unlocking the vehicle when approaching and converts the warning light signal into a signal to turn off the vehicle, integrating a limit switch in the helmet into the product set. From there, the product has the feature of starting the vehicle when the helmet is near and automatically turning off the vehicle when the helmet is taken off.

In addition, the product also has anti-theft and anti-leaving features. The highest-end product also has a positioning feature when left behind or when parents need to track their child's location.