On the afternoon of May 24, the award ceremony for top 10 graduates took place at SUSTech. Attendees included University Council Chairperson Guo Yurong, University Council Vice Chairperson Li Fengliang, Residential College Director Hanwei, professor representatives, student representatives, and representatives from every department, school, institute, office, center and residential college.
Before the voting process, each of the 16 nominated graduates introduced themselves, engaged in debates, and answered tough questions from judges. Equipped with eye-catching Powerpoint slides and well-edited videos, the graduates’ introductions covered their experience and achievements in their studies, research, charity, volunteer service and student society engagement. All of them had strong stage presence and responded to the judges’ challenges in their own way.
The nominees are from different backgrounds with different aspirations, and they made full use of this to highlight themselves as unique individuals rather than the typical “top Asian students.” The 16 nominees also talked about their outstanding qualities:
Before the results were released, the Center of Arts presented an instrumental quintet. By combining the Internet public votes and judge votes, Student Affairs Office Director Xue Zheng announced the top 10 graduates of SUSTech’s class of 2018:
After the top 10 students spoke about the honor of being deemed in the top 10 of the graduating class, Guo Yurong congratulated them and encouraged other SUSTech students to learn from them.
