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Dr. Mays Awwad, the director of the Hassib Sabbagh IT Center of Excellence at the University, said: “The idea of the challenge is to be an opportunity to present innovative and pioneering ideas and solutions to the problems that will be presented on the day of the competition. The challenge will be launched for all teams to find the most appropriate and applicable solutions in a creative, pioneering manner and the Center will offer financial rewards to the first three teams after going through the experience of presenting ideas and being judged by jury committees.

It is noteworthy that IEEE Pioneers is a competition within Entrepreneurship Week launched by the International Society of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). It aims to raise the local community’s awareness of the importance of entrepreneurship. It also aims to support pioneering and creative projects, in addition to qualifying and developing the participants’ skills and technological capabilities that are necessary for preparing projects to suit the requirements of the labour market in light of the global changes in the field of technology and artificial intelligence.

Dr. Ishaq Seder- the Minister of Telecommunication and Information Technology, Eng. Adnan Samarah- the Chairman of the Supreme Council for Creativity and Excellence and Dr. Muath Sabha from Arab American University attended the final ceremony.

This competition is specialized in Business pioneer and startups and participants must prepare and provide startup ideas that revolve around solving an environmental, social, educational or health problem with the usage of technology and pioneering.