Design and Build Challenge Week
2025 - Robotics-based Challenges
14 February 2025
The JSIC Winter Hack Challenge Week 2025 has come to an exhilarating close, marking another milestone in fostering innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. This event was a great opportunity to showcase the remote sharing platform, enabling students from two universities—Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)—to work together on the same project, sparking innovation and collaboration.
2024 - Self-Driving AI
19 February 2024
The Design and Build Challenge Week returned to our Mile End campus from 19th to 23rd February, co-organised by Dr Matthew Tang and Dr Yixuan Zou. This year, ten Beijing students were joined by 14 London students, and they formed five teams to compete in the self-driving racing competitions. They worked tirelessly through the week to collect data and train self-driving AI.
2021 - Game AI
1 March 2021
The Design and Build Hack Week 2021 was held successfully as an online competition from 22nd to 26th Feb. This year, the students were challenged with the design and programming of a game AI agent to play the classic 2D move and shoot game.
2019 - Drones
27 February 2019
The fourth “Design and Build Winter Hack” took place at Queen Mary’s Mile End campus from Monday 18 February to Friday 22 February.
2018 - Robots
6 February 2018
The Design and Build Hack Week 2018 was held successfully at Advanced Robotics at Queen Mary (ARQ) from 29th Jan to 2nd Feb. A total of 19 participants from London and Beijing took on the challenge of programming NAO Humanoid robots to take penalty kicks.
2016 - Robot
15 March 2016
Teams of students from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) took part in a challenge to hack robots to make them identify hot and coloured lanterns.