Texas A&M at Qatar hosts student engineering innovation – The Peninsula

Texas A&M at Qatar hosts student engineering innovation – The Peninsula

Doha: Students from Texas A&M University at Qatar and other Qatar Foundation partner universities recently spent 48 hours designing, building and presenting ideas and technologies of benefit to the world during Invent for the Planet 2022, an international engineering innovation competition.

Organised and hosted by Texas A&M University’s main campus in College Station, Texas (USA), Invent for the Planet asked students from 28 participating universities around the world to tackle the most challenging issues facing the world today in just 48 hours. At each location, teams were formed based on a shared interest in one of the available need statements.

Over the following two days, the teams researched their topic, collaborated with mentors, came up with a plan and built a simple prototype. Each team then presented its product to a panel of judges.

First place in the local contest and a $1,000 prize went to the team, The Bad Apple, consisting of Seham Al Baker, Soha Mousa, Waad Ismail, Mohamed Fattouh, Ryan Mansour and Mohammad Nafees. Their project, the Good Apple application, addresses food waste in Qatar. The team was one of the top six finalists internationally and will travel to Texas A&M’s main campus for a final pitch to be held