Students from UAE, KSA, Bahrain, Jordan, and Iraq universities take top honors at the Huawei ICT Global Competition

Students from UAE, KSA, Bahrain, Jordan, and Iraq universities take top honors at the Huawei ICT Global Competition

Middle East: Students from the Middle East region took top honors with their outstanding performance at the Huawei ICT Competition 2022-2023 Global Final concluded recently at Huawei Headquarters in Shenzhen, China. The first to be held in person since 2019, the event’s culmination was a competition between finalists in 146 teams from 36 countries. Before the Final, more than 120,000 students from more than 2,000 universities in 74 countries and regions around the world took part in the ICT Competition.

The team from UAE comprising Higher Colleges of Technology and University of Sharjah won the first prize in the Network Track among other teams globally. The team from Iraq comprising Salahaddin University and University of Anbar, the team from Jordan comprising Princess Sumaya University for Technology, and Yarmouk University, and the team from Bahrain comprising Bahrain Polytechnic won the second prize in the Network Track among other teams globally. The team from Saudi Arabia comprising King Faisal University and the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation Colleges won the third prize in the Network Track among other teams globally.

In parallel, Team 1 from Jordan comprising Princess Sumaya University for Technology/King Hussein School of Computing Sciences won the third prize in the Innovation