2021 China-US Young Maker Competition

Bill Luan

Senior Program Manager at the Google Coral team

Bill is responsible for managing developer outreach and partner engagement programs, as well as promoting AI innovations using AIY and Coral products. Bill has been working in the high-tech industry in the U.S. for 34 years, organized many technology trainings for developers, built many GDG communities, and also a frequent speaker at many technology conferences.

Aaron Cunningham

Technical Program Manager, Google Open Source Hardware team

Aaron leads open source hardware strategy at Google. He also manages a network of 60 makerspaces in Google offices around the world, where Googlers can put these practices into action to drive innovation.

Hackster Team

Contest Administrators and Community Moderators

Team members at Hackster together have an extensive industry experience and knowledge in the field of hardware innovation. Each team member will independently score and evaluate project submissions and then meet as a group to discuss results. The resulting scores will be compiled to identify the projects we think are most unique and creative.

Use the discussion forum to ask, answer, and discuss questions!

China-US Young Maker Competition Timeline

China-US Young Maker Competition Stages

Stage 1: Individuals/teams must submit projects to this contest page for judging. The top 10 US individuals/teams will be selected for the next stage.

Stage 2: From Jul 1, 2021 at 11:59 PM PT to mid-August, selected individuals/teams will refine their projects.

Stage 3: Selected individuals/teams will join the final competition (VIRTUAL) in mid August.

Previous China-US Young Maker Competitions

• 2020, 2019, 2018

Testimonials from previous contest winners

• "The US-China Young Maker Competition was an incredible chance to present my project to an international audience and interact with the best and brightest people in China. I met US/Chinese diplomats, students from Chinese universities, and makers from all across the United States!"- Alex Wulff (Finalist)
• "If you have a brilliant idea, just go for it. Keep in mind that this is a big event and you need to push your limits. But in the end you will enjoy the journey and experience something special." - Contest Finalist
• "It was the biggest event in my life. Never thought I would present my project to so many honorable judges." - Contest Finalist

Project Topic Restrictions

In addition to the official project rules there are additional guidelines about the content of your submissions that are required for participation:

• Projects that utilize personal information such as: Affective computing, Biometric information or applications, Categorizing people, Children, Eye analysis, Face analysis and synthesis, Human body analysis, Personally identifiable information, is excluded from participating in this Competition.
• Project submissions must be current and published within the current calendar year (2021). Submissions with a published date prior to 2021 will be excluded from participating in this Competition.

Host: China Ministry of Education

Co-organizers：

• Chinese Service Center for Scholarly Exchange (affiliated to China Ministry of Education to provide service to promote scholarly exchange between China and other parts of the world)
• Tsinghua University (Established in 1911 as one of the leading universities in China)
• Beijing Gehua Cultural Development Group (Established in 1997, a large state-owned cultural enterprise based in Beijing)
• China University Science and Technology Park Alliance
• Google Information Technology (China) Company Limited (sponsor)
• Google Coral Team

Administrator for US contest: Hackster.io