Four-hour "Hackathon" sparks innovative ideas, with students from 11 universities coming together to use AI programming to empower smart agriculture.

Red Net “Moment” News Correspondent Liu Yi, Chen Fangying, Changsha Report—Recently, the “Campus Practice Camp” event jointly organized by the Hunan Agricultural University Xiangjiang Excellence Engineers Institute, the Xiangjiang Technology Innovation Institute, and the ByteDance TRAE team concluded. The event, themed “AI programming extremes create new momentum to empower agricultural new quality productive forces,” attracted students from 11 universities including Central South University and Hunan University who formed teams to participate. In a four-hour closed-door “hackathon,” participants carried out innovative practical work that integrated AI programming with agricultural scenarios. At the opening ceremony, Tang Qingxi, Secretary of the Xiangjiang Excellence Engineers Institute’s direct Party branch, said that contemporary young students are now facing a historic opportunity brought by the rapid development of artificial intelligence. By learning to break through with AI tools and use technology to empower innovation—under the call of the Party and the state, the attention of the provincial Party committee and provincial government, and the support provided by university-local-government-enterprise platforms—every young person with ideas and willing to take action can carve out their own space. He also extended an invitation to all young students who harbor dreams of scientific and technological innovation and entrepreneurship passion, welcoming them to the Xiangjiang Excellence Engineers Institute to incubate smart agriculture projects. Representatives from the ByteDance TRAE team, Xu Yingxiao and Yin Junjun, introduced the AI programming assistant “TRAE” used in this event. As a “developer partner,” the tool supports natural-language interaction to help developers lower implementation barriers and improve the efficiency of turning ideas into real products. Student representative Xu Zhihang, drawing on hands-on experience, shared key techniques for rapid development using TRAE, providing warm-up for the subsequent extreme development segment.

On-site, the four-hour closed-door “hackathon” segment takes place.

Then, the four-hour closed-door “hackathon” segment continues. All participating teams focused on intelligent technology application scenarios—especially in the direction of smart agriculture—and completed the entire process from idea conception and solution design to prototype development. The atmosphere at the event was lively; students from different universities and with different academic backgrounds sparked diverse ideas through communication. After the development phase, 15 teams presented their projects in sequence. Their works covered multiple areas including intelligent agricultural machinery control, agricultural unmanned technology, and agricultural knowledge Q&A, demonstrating young students’ insights and technical capabilities in deeply integrating AI technology with different scenarios and solving real-world problems. The panel conducted a comprehensive evaluation from aspects such as innovation, technical completeness, application potential, and on-site performance, and ultimately selected 1 first prize, 1 second prize, and 3 third prizes. This event was not only a technology competition, but also a vivid practice of the Xiangjiang Excellence Engineers Institute deepening industry-education collaboration and using AI to empower agricultural new quality productive forces. As a “pilot field” for Hunan’s higher education reform, the Xiangjiang Excellence Engineers Institute cultivates talent with entrepreneurship as the core orientation, building a full-process, whole-chain closed-loop support system covering everything from policy support and funding backing to project guidance and resource matching. The institute belongs to the science-and-technology innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem led by Professor Li Zexiang. Within this ecosystem, it has cumulatively incubated nearly 300 listed companies, unicorn enterprises, and hard-technology companies.

Source: Red Net

Author: Liu Yi, Chen Fangying

Editor: Gao Qin

Headline: Four-hour “hackathon” sparks smart ideas; students from 11 universities come together on the same stage to empower smart agriculture with AI programming

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