Sudanese Students Win Awards In Global Challenge, Dubai 2019
24 November, 2019
KHARTOUM (Sudanow) - A team of seven Sudanese engineering students has won three out of 20 awards in the recent Global Challenge 2019, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The third edition of the annual robotics competition — the first to be hosted outside the Americas — drew the participation of more than 1,500 students from 191 countries.
The Sudanese students, drawn from the Sudan University of Science and Technology and the universities of Khartoum and Alneelain, have won the Judges Award - first place.
Further, they won the Safety Award for their ‘commitment to the safety rules while building the robot and during the challenge days' and ‘the Outstanding Mentor Award. The latter prize was won by Sudanese mentor Ahmed Abdelwadood of the Faculty of Engineering, the Sudan University of Science and Technology. Arbitrators said Abdelwadood had won the prize for ‘his commitment and his support and encouragement of the team.’
The team has participated in the first edition of FIRST Global Challenge in Washington D.C, July 2017.
According to the organizers, the competition was organized under the slogan ‘United by Land, Connected by Oceans’.
The organizers said the global youth robotics event resonated with humanity’s wider ambition to motivate people from around the world to clean up our oceans to build a brighter future for our planet.
FIRST Global was established as a US-based not-for-profit public charity to provide the framework for an “Olympics”-style robotics challenge. FIRST Global invites one team from every nation to participate in an international robotics event that builds bridges between high school students with different backgrounds, languages, religions, and customs.
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