Taiwan was the top winner at this year’s Nuremberg Invention Exhibition, grabbing 26 gold medals, 26 silvers and 15 bronzes, plus the coveted team championship on Sunday.
Students from National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (雲林科大) in southern Taiwan won three golds with a high-performance accelerometer, uricase enzyme biosensors and methods for fabricating a chlorine ion sensing membrane.
Students from the Technology and Science Institute of Northern Taiwan (北台灣科技學院), Far East University (遠東科大) and National Chin-Yi University of Technology (勤益科大) each won two golds.
National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (屏東科大) students earned a special award, conferred by the invention associations of Hungary and Poland, for an innovative power generation and storage system that uses both solar and wind power.
An invention by National United University (聯合大學) students that can help reduce automobile exhaust emissions attracted the interest of a German company, which approached the inventors about negotiating a possible technology transfer.
The Taiwanese delegation, drawn from 22 universities, colleges and high schools, was the nation’s biggest ever representation at the show.
The younger members of the team also performed well, taking two gold medals. Huang En-tien (黃恩典) from National Taichung Industrial High School (台中高工) won gold for his multifunctional umbrella.
Two students from Ming-Dao High School (明道中學) in Taichung County also received a gold medal for their invention of a special glue bottle device.
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