Damascus-SANA
The Syrian Scientific Society for Informatics and the Palestine Student Association honored this evening at the Al-Assad National Library in Damascus the winning projects at the conclusion of the Excellence Scientific Engineering Competition in its seventh season, which was organized in cooperation with 35 institutions and academic destinations representing the public and private sectors and with the participation of 1500 students from different governorates.
The competition, which was launched in its seventh season within the activities of the Third International Conference on Digital Transformation, which was hosted by Damascus last April, aims to encourage and support distinguished students and distinguished engineering projects owners from graduates and non-university innovators, and to encourage scientific research and scientific publishing globally and non-specialists who have the desire and skill to accomplish useful projects. The society and emphasizing the importance of creativity, invention and scientific research and employing them in engineering projects in all fields.
The exhibition accompanying the closing ceremony included 27 engineering projects that reached the final stage out of 207 submitted in the first stage of the competition. Digital transformation and global scientific publishing category.
Engineer Mahmoud Al-Masry, general manager of the competition, indicated that the number of accepted students reached 300 from all Syrian governorates. The accepted participants began the phase of supervision, training and consultations at the beginning of October by holding workshops and scientific seminars and participating in exhibitions and conferences such as Al-Basel Exhibition for Creativity and Invention and the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Exhibition in October and the establishment of specialized and pioneering workshops, where the number of training workshops reached 81, with the participation of 100 experts and specialists, with training hours amounting to 700 hours, with the participation of 1500 male and female students who benefited in some way from these events and workshops.
The scientific director of the competition, Bashar Halawa, pointed out that the value of the prizes presented to the winning projects in various categories and specializations amounted to more than 40 million Syrian pounds, while the administrative director of the competition, Walid Al-Khayat, indicated the participation of 25 male and female volunteers who were the unknown soldiers for the success of the competition.
In his speech, Eng. Hassan Al-Najjar, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Syrian Informatics Association, stressed the association’s keenness to support and sponsor pioneering work and the distinguished creative youth project in various fields in support of the national economy and the increase in the number of initiatives and technical innovations in the field of digital transformation, especially the applicable ones, noting that digital transformation has become It is imperative in the pursuit of knowledge, continuous development and professional excellence.
For his part, Engineer Shehab Barbar, President of the Palestine Student Association, said that the Excellence Competition opens new horizons for young people to enhance their research and innovation capabilities and expresses the ideas of the young generation itself.
Dr. Mustafa Mawaldi, Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, explained the importance of the competition in encouraging students to be creative and achieve distinct and marketable projects.
The closing ceremony included a presentation of a historical overview of the competition for excellence and the most prominent stations of the seventh season, honoring the preliminary and final arbitration committees, and the distribution of prizes to the winning projects, such as the project “A practical robotic platform to teach children programming and logical thought” by two students, Lin Hamdan and Rama Al Jazmati, for the university category, and the alternative energy project “Simple Water Turbine” For Engineer Muhammad Yassin from Tishreen University, which can be installed in any house or facility and generate electricity with a capacity of up to 100 kilowatts per day.
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