“Staplect”, a team of Chulalongkorn University students from the Faculty of Engineering and Chulalongkorn Business School, have won the SCG Bangkok Business Challenge.
As part of Asia’s longest-running Global Student Startup Competition, the SCG Bangkok Business Challenge competition in Thailand, organized by Sasin School of Management, Chulalongkorn University, and the Siam Cement Group (SCG), was held during 19-20 February 2021. This year, the competition theme was “Growing Beyond Profit with Sustainable Innovation 2021”.
The Staplect team competed against 58 teams from 8 academic institutions and won first place, receiving a cash prize of US$ 3,000. The team will soon step up to represent Thailand in the upcoming global competition.
The Staplect team members included Mr Krit Uthaisang and Mr. Thanapat Pornsirianant from the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Engineering Program, Faculty of Engineering; and Mr Chavaroj Thongpoch and Ms Napassorn Triwiratchakul from Chulalongkorn Business School.
The winning team was supervised by Dr Jing Tang, lecturer of the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Engineering Program, International School of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University.