Amman - A Jordanian team of 5 students at the age of 17 won first place in engineering design, programming and safe robot design, in a competition organized by the International First Global Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland.
The world's largest robot competition - according to the organizers - was attended by 180 teams representing 180 countries in the world, including industrial and scientifically advanced countries that spend millions on scientific research.
The students, Ayham and Adham Al-Qassem, Ahmed Al-Dhala’in, Hussein Attia and Muhammad Jamil Al-Najjar, won the first place after designing a safe robot with precise conditions related to the robot’s body, its movements, its fields of work and control, the way it implements orders, and its programming language.
According to the organizers, the competition enhances the creativity and innovation skills of school students through the application of the STEM approach, in education based on the integration of science, engineering, technology and mathematics to develop, design and program robots, which enhances the 21st century skills of students and enhances their learning skills.
Investing free hours in training
The student in the first year of secondary school, Ahmed Al-Dalain, 17, spends his spare hours learning robot design - he tells "AJ Net" - that he started learning through his mobile phone and available computers about 4 years ago, investing his spare time for the benefit.
The training is shared by his schoolmate, Hussein Attia, 17, who specializes in programming. Attia has started training in programming since 2019 on his mobile phone until he has mastered the role of programming within the award-winning school team.
Attia adds to "AJ Net" that learning programming began as a hobby, then developed by receiving training courses, learning and investing free time in learning everything new in this field, and he aspires to study human medicine, and his future plan is to harness programming in the service of the medical field, and provide better care and service to patients.
Jordan was represented in the international competition by a "RoboRazors" team from "Educational Harvest" schools in the Jordanian capital, Amman. The participating teams in the competition consist of 5 students, a coach and an administrator. The teams qualify after rounds of qualifying in their countries among the competing teams, and schools and private institutions usually participate. away from official institutions.
According to its director, Akram Abdel Qader, "Al-Hassad" schools are interested in programming, artificial intelligence and robot designs, and a laboratory equipped with the necessary equipment, devices and parts necessary for training students is allocated for this. The school has won several local and Arab awards in the field of robotics.
The genius of the future and the treasure of Jordan
Director of the First Global Foundation in Jordan, Muhammad Al-Jadoa, described the participating team as "the geniuses of the future and the next treasure of Jordan," adding that Jordan's students are distinguished by high intelligence capabilities, and have the ability to adapt, quickly understand and work collectively, which contributes to creating a creative and innovative generation.
Jadoua added to "AJ Net" about the details of the competition, that it specializes in "the best engineering design for the robot, its ability to move and perform the duties required of it, with extreme accuracy, and a high design of the robot with a size not exceeding 50 centimeters according to the conditions of the competition."
Regarding the most prominent challenges facing students in this field, Jadoua said that students and those interested in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics in Jordan suffer from a lack of official attention and care, despite the presence of a number of institutions and a Ministry of the Digital Economy, but on the ground work otherwise.
More attention and care
The same applies to civil and private institutions - Jadoua adds - as the creators of robot and artificial intelligence teams make themselves with their own abilities and self-financing, so that the Jordanian team's trip was not able to secure its costs from official institutions or the private sector.
The team manager explained that the biggest challenge faced by innovators in robotic teams is the lack of qualified and capable incubators that embrace their creativity, and harness costs, expenses and the appropriate environment for work and development.
Jordan's winning of this award attracted the attention of the world and the participating teams from different countries of the world participating in the Jordanian team.
Despite the lack of capabilities and the weak and limited financial spending on the Jordanian team, it managed to overcome the participating teams from 180 countries, most notably the scientifically advanced industrial countries such as Japan, China, the United States, Mexico, and European, Asian and African countries, spending millions of dollars on scientific research, robotics and artificial intelligence.
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