NUA achieved its best-ever performance in the 19th "Challenge Cup" National College Student Extracurricular Academic and Technological Works Competition, held at Nanjing University from October 31 to November 3, wining a total of 15 awards, including eight national and seven provincial honors.

This year's competition marked several historic breakthroughs for NUA: NUA secured the highest number of National Grand Prizes and the highest total number of national awards in its "Challenge Cup" history; it was also the first time that NUA had advanced to the final live judging round of the national "Challenge Cup" competition and won a grand prize in the special track of China Youth Sci-Tech Innovation Challenge.

Two award-winning projects,Ice Path MessengerandArt Empowers Traditional Chinese Medicine, have already been featured at cultural industries expos and deployed in cultural and creative parks, demonstrating the innovation of their art-technology integration.

The outstanding results were supported by NUA's comprehensive training system, which engaged over 5,000 participants through open classes on research literacy and multiple rounds of mock oral defenses.