牛！加拿大女王大学赢得李光耀全球商业计划竞赛第一名，名利双收

加拿大女王大学的学生赢得了

“李光耀全球商业计划”竞赛第一名，

奖金十万美金

SINGAPORE - A silicon chip which can help detect even trace amounts of melamine in milk power helped a team from Canada win the top prize of $100,000 in the Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition on Thursday (Sept 14).

主要研究电子硅片用于检测甚至追踪牛奶中的微量元素

Queen's University beat five other finalists to win the top prize at an award ceremony at Fairmont Hotel.

女王大学打败了其他五个参赛选手在费尔蒙酒店颁奖典礼上获得了第一名

The winning team, SpectraPlasmonics, is made up of Mr Malcolm Eade, 22, Mr Tyler Whitney, 22, Mr Ryan Picard, 23, Mr Christian Baldwin, 21, and Mr Yusuf Ahmed, 21, who was not present.

"With this award we will be able to put a lot more focus on product development," said Mr Whitney.

队伍由五个年轻人组成，四个到场，一个缺席，赢得这个奖项可能让他们更注重产品开发

He added that the team plans to continue to develop the product and bring the technology to the market.

他们未来的发展计划就是开发产品，把技术带到市场

Their project involves the use of a metal-coated silicon chip to aid ultra-sensitive chemical detection. Lab samples are placed on the chip, which is implanted on a specimen slide and examined through a spectrometer. The chip is able to enhance detection signals by at least a million times, thus producing more comprehensive test results and reducing the need for complex lab tests that are both costly and time-consuming.

他们的项目包括使用一种金属涂层的硅芯片来帮助超敏感的化学检测

The chip is also able to perform detailed drug analysis in forensic labs, and was invented by researchers from the university's chemical engineering department. Team SpectraPlasmonics will be developing and selling it.

The competition's final six - which featured teams from the United States, Canada, Italy, China, Sweden and the United Kingdom - were selected from 550 submissions from over 300 universities in 68 countries.

大赛的六强，分别来自美国，加拿大，意大利，中国，瑞典和英国。这六支队伍是从68个国家330所大学的550个参赛团队中挑选出来的

两个团队项目涉及健康领域，两个涉及生活领域，两个涉及服务领域

The theme of this year's competition was "Smart City", and called for creative proposals from university, college and polytechnic students across the globe to address the challenges a smart city faces and seize opportunities for innovation.

今年的竞赛主题是“智能城市”

The six grandfinalists, two from each of the categories of health, living and services, were selected from 36 finalists who were in Singapore during the competition week that started on Monday (Sept 11). As part of the final round, they took turns to present their ideas to a panel of seven judges at the Singapore Management University (SMU) School of Law on Thursday.

The judges included Professor Lui Pao Chuen, Advisor of National Research Foundation Singapore, as well as Michael Seibel, Chief Executive Officer of Y Combinator, a leading start-up incubator and accelerator in the United States.

The grand prize was sponsored by the competition's organiser, the Singapore Management University's Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

大赛的组织者，新加坡管理大学创新与创业学院同时也是本次大赛奖金的赞助者

Another finalist, Elephant Chain from Zhejiang University in China, won the Smart Services Outstanding Award, a cash prize of $25,000.

另一组参赛选手，来自中国浙江大学的“Elephant Chain” 获得了智能服务杰出奖，奖金两万五千美元

Elephant Chain is a project that builds a platform for financial transactions to make them more affordable and less prone to fraud.

中国团体提供的项目是建立一个金融转账平台可以更好的减少诈骗

The Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition is supported by Wilmar International Limited, with the Smart Nation Programme Office as its Knowledge Partner.

李光耀全球商业计划竞赛由威玛国际有限公司赞助，由“智慧国家计划办公室”作为其知识合作伙伴。

Correction note: This story has been edited for clarity.

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