Rebirth of a Top Student's Handbook

Zhou Min gestured for everyone to quiet down before continuing, "I understand what you all mean. As an educational technology company, while we provide users with a vast amount of educational resources, we should also provide learning paths that suit the individual needs of students."

"We will develop some more intelligent learning companion robots that can customize learning plans for students based on their learning progress, learning ability, and learning goals, and adjust them at any time."

"Make a note of this Zhang Kun; this is the next phase of your technical department's task."

After arranging things for Zhang Kun, Zhou Min continued, looking at Chen Sheng and the question bank team, "We definitely want to hold this competition, and we want to make it a success. If we can gain recognition this time, it will become a regular event for our company."

Upon hearing this, Chen Sheng nodded in agreement, saying, "Competitions are the easiest way to increase brand awareness. Although our company already has a good reputation, a prestigious event can help solidify our foundation."

Seeing that everyone else was agreeing, Zhou Min simply said, "Alright, everyone agrees on holding a competition. Let's discuss the competition rules now."

"Firstly, there's the exam format. Our users are all over the country, and it doesn't seem very realistic to bring them together for an offline exam. I think we should just use online exams."

As soon as Zhou Min finished speaking, a boy raised his hand and asked, "Isn't there a risk of someone taking the exam for you?"

The others also started whispering among themselves.

"No, during the exam, all students' computers are required to have webcams, and no other person is allowed in the environment. Before the exam, there will be an identity verification process, and when the exam begins, the computer screen will be locked, and no other software can be used. After the exam, video detection software will be used to check the proctoring videos of the students who made the shortlist. With this approach, there should be basically no problem."

Online exams, in the years that followed when masks were worn, had already become widespread in many important exams.

The mechanisms for preventing cheating are particularly stringent.

Having gone through all of this, Zhou Min felt that online exams were quite common.

Seeing Zhou Min's confident demeanor, the others also gained a lot of confidence for no apparent reason.

"If it's an online exam, then the essay questions can't be designed, right?"

"It's alright. We can order more of the writing boards we use for recording video lessons from the manufacturer and send them to the registered students in advance."

"How much would that cost?!"

"Aren't there supposed to be registration requirements? If there are a lot of people, just list it at cost price next to the registration link."

"Regarding the difficulty of the questions, I suggest that we shouldn't start with questions that are too difficult to answer. Since we want to expand the influence of this competition, we should let more people participate in it. My suggestion is to include some basic questions that are a little easier so that ordinary students can feel a sense of participation."

"That's a good idea. So, how should we set the eligibility criteria?"

"Anyone who has completed a hundred practice problems or been on the leaderboard of 10,000 people can apply, is that okay?"

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After discussion, the group quickly devised a competition plan, and then divided up their respective tasks.

After the tasks were assigned, everyone rushed off to do their own work.

This is a startup with great potential, and everyone wants to establish a firm foothold before the company is fully formed.

After everyone left, Zhou Min chatted with Chen Sheng about the company's future development plans.

"How's the progress on those patents I asked you to register before?"

Zhou Min places great importance on intellectual property rights. Although people's awareness of intellectual property rights is still relatively weak in this era, with social development, intellectual property rights will become a core competitive advantage for enterprises.

Chen Sheng had been following up on this matter, so when he heard Zhou Min's question, he immediately answered readily: "Two have already been approved, and the rest are still in the announcement and substantive review stages."

"Oh, then you can find someone to register these patents again."

As Zhou Min spoke, she handed Chen Sheng a stack of documents.

Chen Sheng took the documents, glanced through them briefly, and then exclaimed incredulously, "So many?"

Seeing Chen Sheng's surprised expression, Zhou Min smiled and said, "What's so surprising? We're a technology company!"

After Zhou Min finished speaking, she straightened her expression and got down to business: "I plan to set up a dedicated intellectual property department so that we won't have to outsource these things in the future!"

“That’s great! It’ll save us some money!” Chen Sheng nodded in agreement.

Registering a patent is not cheap. These intellectual property outsourcing companies charge at least 30,000 to 40,000 yuan for a single invention patent. And even then, there's no guarantee of getting the certificate.

If your company has its own team, after deducting the necessary official fees, you can save at least 30,000 yuan per invention patent.

Therefore, if a company hires a patent engineer with a monthly salary of 30,000 yuan, and the engineer can submit an invention patent application report every month, the company will not lose money.

Chen Sheng was calculating rapidly in his mind, and the more he calculated, the more feasible it seemed.