GTIIT Open Day: Hello GTIIT, Hello World

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 PostTime：4/30/2023

Yesterday, Guangdong Technion – Israel Institute of Technology(GTIIT) Open Day "Hello GTIIT, Hello World" was held on campus with great success. Students and their parents from different provinces gathered in the diverse, open and beautiful GTIIT campus, and experienced the "unlimited" life of studying STEM at GTIIT.

Over 1000 students and their parents visited GTIIT campus and nearly 800,000 people joined the Open Day virtually through livestreaming. Each in person and virtual visitor was given a glimpse of GTIIT's international campus life and dynamic atmosphere.

Prof. Aaron Ciechanover, 2004 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and Special Envoy of the Technion President to GTIIT gave an online speech to open a day filled with activities centred on learning about studying at GTIIT.

Prof. Lin Danming, Pro-Vice Chancellor of GTIIT gave a lecture titled "Study STEM in an Unlimited Way", highlighting the unique talent training mode of GTIIT. As the China campus of Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, GTIIT has fully introduced the education resources of the Technion. With its emphasis on foundation, problem-driven teaching, research orientation and innovation, it helps students discover their "seeds of innovation" and keep pushing their limits.

Even more, GTIIT students are provided with high-level international academic conferences and lectures, enabling them to connect with the top scientists and see the wider world "on the shoulders of giants". At the Open Day, visitors also shared the same experience. Prof. Guan Yi, the international virology expert and the Canada Gairder Award Laureate gave the lecture "Virus and the Future of Human-being".

With a solid foundation, and strong skills in research and innovation processes, GTIIT graduates have been accepted to and won recognition from prestigious universities, research institutes and international companies. GTIIT alumni's outstanding performances attracted the attention of students and parents at the Open Day.

Over 80% of the first two classes of GTIIT graduates received offers from world renowned universities, among whom 95% entered the world’s Top 100 universities, and more than half started further study in the Top 50 universities. It is impressive that 13% of the GTIIT graduates have been admitted to programs in the world’s Top 10 universities. Over half of the offers are to research programs around the globe. GTIIT graduates have also been successfully finding employment and have found rewarding positions in international companies and emerging unicorns in China and international, in dynamic industries such as new energy, artificial intelligence, 5G communications, etc.

GTIIT Graduates Sharing

This year, GTIIT has another class of outstanding undergraduate students, among them are students receiving a full-funded offer from Stanford University, publishing a paper as the first author, actively engaging in university activities... “GTIIT does not set limit for students' potential. I became fascinated by science after studying here," GTIIT students' sincere and confident sharing won applause from the audience.