Hunan Vocational College Students Win Silver in AI Track at World Vocational College Skills Competition

The AI track finals of the 2026 World Vocational College Skills Competition concluded in Beijing. A team from Hunan Vocational College of Science and Technology, coached by Li Yao and Kang Meilin of the software school and composed of Zhang Yi, Lei Yixuan, Shen Ke and Shi Wenjie from class 24101, competed in the regular undergraduate group and won a silver award. The entry came from the team's ongoing blueberry-picking robot project, with students involved in requirements analysis, hardware setup and algorithm debugging.

Vocational college students competing and winning in an AI track reflects investment by vocational institutions in hands-on AI teaching and project-based training. For the school, such results can serve as an external demonstration of hands-on teaching outcomes; for students, taking part in hardware and software development within a real ongoing project helps build engineering collaboration experience. The original text does not provide the total number of teams, scoring criteria or award ratios, so the relative standing of this result in the competition cannot be judged from it. Vocational colleges can reference the approach of using ongoing projects to support competition preparation and letting competitions feed back into hands-on teaching Students gain engineering practice through requirements analysis, hardware setup and algorithm debugging