Winning inventions

Earlier this year, the 12th BeiDou Cup China Adolescents & Technology Invention Contest (BD-CASTIC) announced a list of winners. A school from Zhejiang province won big.
今年早些时候，第十二届“北斗杯”全国青少年科技创新大赛(BD-CASTIC) 结果揭晓。浙江一所学校赢得了大奖。

Shaoxing No 1 High School took home nine awards in the category targeting youth amateurs under age 17, including two first place prizes and four second place prizes.
绍兴市第一中学在面向17岁以下的少年个人爱好者组比赛中获得9个奖项，包括2个一等奖和4个二等奖。

As a high-level and large-scale competition for youth, BD-CASTIC was launched in 2010 by the Department of Science, Technology and Information of the Ministry of Education. It aims to cultivate innovative, versatile and skilled talents for BeiDou-related industries.
“北斗杯”全国青少年科技创新大赛是教育部科技和信息司于2010年启动的一项高水平、大规模的青少年竞赛。这项大赛旨在为北斗相关产业培养创新型、复合型的技术人才。

One of the first place prizes went to a smart system for safe driving built by Qian Weicheng and his team. “As more automobiles run on the road, transportation accidents have increased,” the 16-year-old said. “So we want to develop a system to prevent collisions and lower risks by improving driver performance.” The system can calculate real-time safety distances, monitor the temperature inside the car and detect other problems such as drunk driving.
钱炜程及其在小组开发的智能安全驾驶系统获得了一等奖。“随着路上的汽车越来越多，交通事故也在增加，”这位16岁的少年说。“因此，我们希望开发一个改善司机驾驶表现的系统，从而防止车祸，降低风险。”该系统可以计算实时安全距离、监控车内温度和发现酒后驾驶等其他问题。

Zhang Yantao and his team invented a multi-functional intelligent robot for epidemic prevention. The robot can help reduce contact between medical professionals and COVID-19 patients by carrying out tasks such as distribution, temperature measurement and disinfection. The team won second prize for their invention.
张严涛及其团队发明了一种多功能防疫智能机器人。这款机器人可进行配送、测温、消毒等工作，从而减少医务人员和新冠患者之间的接触。这个小组的发明获得了二等奖。

Both of their inventions are based on the application of BeiDou Navigation Satellite Systems (BDS). “Our system mainly adopts three services provided by BDS: high-accuracy positioning, traffic information and remote sensing,” Qian said.
这两项发明都是基于北斗卫星导航系统（BDS）的应用。“我们的系统主要采用了三种北斗卫星导航系统提供的服务：高精度定位、交通信息和遥感，“钱炜程表示。

To complete their inventions, they needed to learn about the theory and application of BDS, which they acquired from their “BeiDou Class”, a program jointly initiated by Peking University and China Association for Science and Technology in 2020. Currently, the class is the only one established in middle schools around the country to cultivate talents for BeiDou science and technology.
为了完成发明，他们在中国卫星导航定位协会与北京大学于2020年携手打造的“北斗科技班”中学习了所需的北斗卫星导航系统的理论知识和应用。目前，这是全国中学中唯一为北斗科技人才培养所设立的班级。

Over 170 students have joined the program. “We hope the program will inspire students’ innovative spirit by figuring out and solving problems,” said Zhou Wenlong, the project leader.
170余名学生参加了“北斗科技班”项目。项目负责人周文龙表示:“我们希望这个项目能通过发现并解决问题，激发学生的创新精神。”

以上文章内容选自《21世纪学生英文报高中版》，详情请见《21世纪学生英文报高中版》高三751期