Haseeb Al Sabbagh IT Center for Excellence and HULT Prize team in partnership with the Faculty of Engineering and IT at the University organized the first orientation meeting about HULT Prize competition. The team talked about their experience of participating in the international competition, which was held in Paris and London in April and September of this year, in which 120 participants were selected from among a quarter - million students around the world.
The team gave a presentation about the competition for the year 2020 and the registration process. The winner will receive a prize of one million dollars.
HULT Prize is the world's largest student entrepreneurship competition that aims to establish profit companies to face one of the societal challenges and to engage students in creating positive change. In more than 200 universities participate in this competition and is held in more than150 countries.
Blitz team from AAUP was qualified for the final competition of Hult Prize in Britain, which will take place in Britain after the team competed the competition in Paris and qualified with nine international teams to compete for the prize of one million dollars.
The team included Ahmed Abdulkarim Al-Subu'a, Reda Madi Abu Sheikha, Noor Jihad Kamil and Lana Sami Awad.
The participated team said: “We have been chosen among the best nine teams in the world, after the performance we presented in Paris and our short video in the university campus about our project, where we were qualified for the finals in Britain to spend a training and educational period under supervision Experts, trainers and entrepreneurs for the development of the project and to compete for the project prize, which is worth one million dollars".
The Deanship of Student Affairs at Arab American University organized the International Hult Prize competition titled "Unemployment" in which 15 teams of university students competed to present innovative ideas to combat unemployment. The competition aims to encourage students to innovate, produce and share pioneering ideas.
The competition was opened by the employee of Deanship of Student Affairs at the University Ms. Juanna Al-Hafei where she welcomed the attendees. She assured the importance of the competition, which bears a title that a lot of Arab societies suffers from. Pointing out that the ideas presented in the competition contributes to the alleviation of unemployment, and the winner of this competition will move to other stages reaching globally, as she thanked the Committee of faculty members Dr. Rola Jadallah, Dr. Raed Erekat and Dr. Rami Hadoub and Dr.
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