A three-member Bahraini team won the second prize at the Huawei ICT Competition 2022-2023 Global Final held at Huawei Headquarters in Shenzhen, China.
The winning team comprised of Dana Kamal, Husain Hasan, and Joud Ebrahim accompanied by their mentor Dr Omar Fayyad from Bahrain Polytechnic.
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. This year, the proportion of female contestants in the global final exceeded 21pc, significantly higher as compared with three years ago.