CUHK Capstone Project Presentation Competition

Format

Inspired by competitions including the Three Minute Thesis (3MT®), Four Minute Thesis (4MT), and Rapid Fire Presentation, students will be given a maximum of 4 minutes to present their capstone project with a maximum of 4 slides. The goal is to effectively communicate your capstone project in a short period of time to a non-specialist audience.

Eligibility

All students completing their capstone projects in the current academic year are eligible to participate in the competition. Students may enter individually for solo capstone projects or enter as a team for group projects.

Competition spots are limited and will be allocated in the order of registration.

Training

To help prospective contestants prepare for the competition, a Training Workshop on “Communicating your capstone project to a wide audience” will be organized. The workshop is open to all students interested in joining the competition or simply sharpening their capstone presentation skills for free.

Date: 26 February 2025 (Wed)
Time: 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Venue: LSK 212

To register for the workshop, click here (Deadline for registration: 24 February 2025 (Mon), 11:59 p.m.)

Qualifying Round

Applicants should fill in the online registration form for the competition and submit a video recording of their capstone presentation. For students competing as a group, all students must register but only one student (team representative) needs to submit a video on behalf of the group.

Online registration form: Click here
Video submission deadline: 11 April 2025 (Fri), 3:00 p.m.
Video submission guidelines: Click here

Video submission form: Click here
Evaluation criteria: Click here

Contestants will be notified of the qualifying round results by 16 April 2025.

Grand Final

Date: 23 April 2025 (Wed)
Time: 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Venue: LSK LT3
Panel of Judges:
Professor CHUNG Pei Chi, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies
Professor KING Irwin, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Professor TSANG Wai-chung Arthur, Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction

• Champion: $3000 Amazon gift card
• 1^st Runner-up: $2000 Amazon gift card
• 2^nd Runner-up: $1000 Amazon gift card
• Audience Choice Award: $1000 Amazon gift card
• Creativity Award: $1000 Amazon gift card
• Plus trophies and certificates for all winners

• For the Grand Final (live presentation), each presenter/presentation group is allowed a maximum of 4 minutes and 4 PPT slides. PowerPoint slides should be submitted by 21 April (Mon) 2025, by 11:59 p.m.
• The presentation content delivered must be ORIGINAL and must not have been used in any previous courses or competitions except for the credit-bearing Capstone Courses. Sources of reference, including any pre-approved AI use, should be cited in a reference list to be included in the presentation slides (excluded from the 4-slide quota).
• The presentation content must NOT contain any material that is plagiarized, generated by AI (unless specific permission has been obtained from the contestant’s major department or programme), or infringes copyright; otherwise, the contestant will be disqualified.
• Contestants’ performance will be evaluated in terms of content, language, delivery and visuals. See evaluation criteria here. 
• Contestants who are over-timed by 30 seconds will be disqualified.
• The organizer reserves the right to interpret or amend the above rules.

• The organizer reserves the right to edit and use the submitted entries, photos, slides and video recordings of speech performances in the competition for future promotion or educational (teaching or research) purposes.
• The organizer reserves the right to revise the terms and conditions without making any advance announcement.

The CUHK Capstone Project Presentation Competition 2025 is funded by the Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grant (TDLEG).