Huawei Tech4City 2025 Sparks Youth-Led Innovation with New Tracks for a Smarter & Sustainable Singapore

With a mission to improve educational equity, Remarkably wins S$20,000 grand prize money in the Onwards Entrepreneurship Track with their project, Remarkably, an AI-powered essay feedback platform that closes the feedback gap for students, especially in underserved communities. It delivers high-quality, timely feedback and equips teachers with tools that augment—not replace—their capacity, reducing heavy marking loads, addressing one of this year's crucial themes: Smart Healthcare, Smart Education, or Smart City.
Youngest winners to date, Coolnected clinch the S$4,000 first prize in the Budding Youths Track for their project, Interconnected Community Fridge, this IoT system addresses common issues with community fridges—unauthorised access, waste, and uneven distribution—through EZ Link card-based smart access, temperature and door sensors, cloud data management, electronic locks, and CCTV monitoring.

Tech4City 2025's Finalist Teams

[Singapore, 28 November 2025] Huawei today announced the winners of the fourth edition of Tech4City Competition 2025, its flagship youth innovation hackathon in Singapore. This year, students and startups were challenged to shape Singapore’s future through technology-driven solutions for social good, innovating under three crucial themes: Smart Healthcare, Smart Education, and Smart City.
Guided by the overarching theme 'Empowering Our Shared Digital Future', the 2025 competition sought to inspire intelligent, inclusive, and sustainable innovations that address societal needs while driving digital transformation, and marked its best received edition to date, gathering over 120 Proposal Submissions, which represents a 70% increase in submissions. These entries came from more than 15 schools, including universities, polytechnics and junior schools. Notably, 65% of the submissions were classified under Onwards Entrepreneurship, indicating a strong focus on scalable projects and cross-track discussion. The Smart Healthcare Theme alone attracted significant attention, accounting for 48% of the total submissions, specifically targeting the ageing population and strained medical resources.
With a strong track record of inspiring over 300 innovative ideas from more than 1,000 participants across its three previous editions, Tech4City 2025 actively champions Singapore's national Digital for Life Movement by fostering digital literacy and innovation for all. The competition also aligns closely with the nation’s Smart Nation 2.0, National AI Strategy 2.0, and Singapore Green Plan 2030, through its commitment to intelligent, sustainable innovations that bridge digital transformation with crucial societal needs.
To empower participants throughout the Tech4City competition journey, Huawei provides extensive technical training via its ICT Academy, encouraging them to pursue Huawei certifications in cloud computing, 5G, AI, and information and communications technology. This robust commitment has seen over 3,000 local ICT talents trained over the past three years.
From a field of numerous innovative submissions spanning both tracks, six teams were recognised for their outstanding contributions. Their impactful solutions effectively advanced the event's major themes, showcasing projects such as accessible public transport applications for the visually impaired, an IoT-interconnected community fridge leveraging EZ-Link cards to distribute surplus food to those in need, and AI-powered essay feedback platforms, among others.

Onwards Entrepreneurship Track Winners

• First Prize (S$20,000): Team Remarkably from the National University of Singapore for their project, Remarkably, an AI-powered essay feedback platform that closes the feedback gap for students, especially in underserved communities. It delivers high-quality, timely feedback and equips teachers with tools that augment—not replace—their capacity, reducing heavy marking loads, demonstrating exceptional innovation in the realm of Smart Education.
• Second Prize (S$10,000): Team TehTarikTech from Temasek Junior College and Victoria Junior College for their project, Third Eye Shield (TES), an AI-powered elderly monitoring system that detects critical medical emergencies—such as cardiac events and falls—with up to 97% accuracy. It integrates DeepSeek’s advanced computer vision and large language models to analyse posture, recognise emotional distress, and monitor behaviours in real-time, conversing with users to spot subtle cognitive changes and sending timely, context-aware alerts to caregivers, focused on Smart City.
• Third Prize (S$5,000): Team MedBaymax from Singapore Institute of Management for their project, MedBOT, an AI health management system designed for an ageing population, providing 24/7 personalised support and companionship. By integrating multimodal sensors, voice interaction, and large medical models, it enables real-time monitoring, intelligent consultation, medication reminders, early alerts, and secure data sharing, contributed to Smart Healthcare

Budding Youths Track Winners

• First Prize (S$4,000): Team Coolnected from Institute of Technical Education College Centralfor their project, Interconnected Community Fridge, This IoT system addresses common issues with community fridges—unauthorised access, waste, and uneven distribution—through EZ Link card-based smart access, temperature and door sensors, cloud data management, electronic locks, and CCTV monitoring, addressing Smart City.
• Second Prize (S$3,000): Team Hear2GO from Republic Polytechnic for their project, Public Transport Accessibility App (with SAVH), developed with the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped, this mobile app uses AI to detect bus numbers and announce them audibly in real-time, helping visually impaired commuters avoid missed buses, focused on Smart City.
• Third Prize (S$2,000): Team Reflexion from the National University of Singapore School of Computing for their project, Reflexion, a smart mirror that passively monitors cognitive health during daily routines. Using built-in sensors and lightweight AI, it captures subtle changes in facial expression, speech, and posture to flag early signs of cognitive decline—no tests, wearables, or user effort required, making it well-suited for seniors, and contributed to Smart Healthcare.

Special Awards

• Best Innovation in Mobility (Sponsored by SBS Transit - S$3,000): Team Hear2GO from Republic Polytechnic for their project, Public Transport Accessibility App (with SAVH).

From Ideas to Impact: Shaping Singapore's Tomorrow

Leading the charge in innovation, Team Remarkably secured first place in the Onwards Entrepreneurship Track with their groundbreaking project, Remarkably. Reflecting on their success, team leader Harry Wu shared,
“Winning the Tech4City 2025 competition is a tremendous honour and a validation of our efforts to reduce the administrative burden on teachers by streamlining the grading process, especially with such steep competition this year. With Remarkbly, we envision a future where personalised academic support is scalable and accessible to all students.”

In the Budding Youths Track, first place was awarded to Team Coolnected for their impressive project, Interconnected Community Fridge. Team leader Eng Kai Yang shared, "It is so rewarding to see the fruit of our hard work with this achievement. This award fuels our passion to develop Coolnected further, and we hope it inspires other young people to contribute to solving real-world problems in Singapore."

Team Remarkably, from left to right, Zhong Rong Yong, Harry Wu, Shui Hon Siew, Charlie Wu

As Guest of Honour at the Tech4City Competition 2025, Mr Seah Kian Peng, Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore, highlighted the significance of strategic partnerships. He noted, “To scale impact, partnerships between industry, academia, and government are key. Huawei has been an important partner in advancing AI, 5G, cloud and computing, and in nurturing local talent.” Speaker Seah also called on industry partners to “keep mentoring and supporting these young innovators” and academic partners to “keep nurturing curiosity and courage.” His message to the youth finalists was one of empowerment: “keep dreaming boldly, building bravely, and pushing boundaries. The future belongs to those who imagine it and then get to work."
Maxi Wang, CEO of Huawei International, said, “The brightest ideas spark when we see everyday challenges not as obstacles, but as opportunities. Tech4City’s mission is to give young innovators the skills, partners, and confidence to catalyse this change. By supporting talent and projects that enhance healthcare, education, and urban life, we hope to build a ‘We-first Singapore’ — a smarter, more inclusive, and sustainable future for all.”
Mr Jeffrey Sim, Group CEO of SBS Transit, said, “This year’s competition highlights how smart and thoughtful use of technology can improve the way we live, learn and move. This resonates with our ongoing commitment to leverage technology to deliver mobility that is smart, inclusive and people-centred. SBS Transit is pleased to support the Tech4City Competition, as it gives young talents the space to push boundaries and reimagine how our city can move and live better. It is why we are sponsoring the Best Innovation in Mobility prize for the third year running. What stands out each year is the energy, creativity and heart our youths bring. Their ideas reflect a sincere desire to make daily life better for the community, and that spirit is something we value deeply. I appreciate the thought and effort each participant put into their work, and extend my warmest congratulations to the winners.”
“In partnership with Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, we are truly inspired by the creativity, ingenuity, and passion shown by this year’s Tech4City participants. By harnessing technology, we are excited to support these talented youth innovators on their HealthTech journey and help shape a smarter, healthier, and more inclusive Singapore. We look forward to their innovation and seeing how it can create an impact in the community”, Mr Henry Kang, Director, Innovation Capabilities Enablement, Synapxe.
The Grand Prize-winning team from Tech4City 2024, Golden Gamers, comprising three graduates from the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) biomedical engineering programme, developed PrimePlay, a series of AI-driven arcade-style games designed to keep seniors active and engaged. Featuring senior-friendly dance mats ‘Happy Feet’ and game controllers ‘Grow your Grip’ based on hand grip strength, the games encourage physical activity while addressing the lack of interest seniors expressed in traditional exercise equipment. Trialled at multiple community events this year, the games have already received positive feedback to encourage active ageing, showcasing its huge potential to transform senior wellness.
These collective efforts underscore Huawei’s proactive and sustained commitment to leveraging homegrown tech talent and digital solutions to enrich lives and foster community bonds as the nation marks this milestone year. Testimonial to Huawei’s commitment to community good through partnership with People’s Association, Huawei was conferred the prestigious People’s Association Community Spirit Award, reflecting a long-term partnership to build a stronger, more connected society through community activities, learning journeys, and technology workshops, thereby reinforcing Huawei’s deep commitment to leveraging technology for good and serving local communities.