Princess Sumaya patronizes the conclusion of the 7th edition of the "Let's Innovate" entrepreneurship and innovation competition

The final results of the competition were announced at the closing ceremony, with 53 projects from public and private school students qualifying. The top five winners of the competition were revealed, in addition to winners across the eight sectors focused on in the entrepreneurial projects.

The event concluded a race hosted by the Jordanian capital, Amman, earlier this month, which featured the presentation of projects before a specialized jury from Jordan and the region to evaluate the participating ideas and projects and select the winners.

In its seventh consecutive edition, the competition aims to provide students with entrepreneurial skills and innovation tools, enabling them to develop entrepreneurial ideas that contribute to finding solutions to real problems within the eight main sectors.

The ceremony opened with speeches by "innovator" students from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Palestine.

During her speech, Entro Gate CEO Samar Obeidat emphasized the importance of fostering entrepreneurship and innovation among students, given their pivotal role in shaping their future over the next ten years, noting that possessing these skills has become a necessity to keep pace with the rapid changes in the labor market and society.

Obeidat stressed the importance of starting to equip students with entrepreneurship and innovation skills from school stages by providing an educational environment that stimulates creativity, develops critical thinking and problem-solving, and transforms ideas into applicable solutions and projects, contributing to preparing a generation more capable of creating its own future and contributing to building a knowledge- and innovation-based economy.

She confirmed that the current edition of the competition was distinguished by the participation of a number of projects from the Gaza Strip, where participating students received specialized training in entrepreneurship and innovation remotely, and were able to develop their projects and present them to international juries remotely, in an experience that reflected their ability to continue learning, innovating, and developing creative solutions despite the challenges and exceptional circumstances they are going through.

Regarding the top five places in the competition, the Dyslexia Go team from Al-Riyada International Academy schools took first place, while the Educational Bag project from the Gaza Strip in Palestine, represented by Kafr Qasim Secondary School, came in second place.

The Packpal project from the Amman Baccalaureate School took third place, while the Glovely project from Al-Hashimiya Mixed School for Girls came in fourth, and the KITT project from Manarat Al-Riyadh Schools – International Boys' Section received fifth place.

At the sector level, the top spots were distributed among a number of student projects, with the Farmaway project from Bayader Beirut School winning first place in the Environment and Sustainability sector.

In the Culture and Financial Solutions sector, the Tharwati project from the International Jordanian Schools took first place, while the SWITCH project from Al-Khader Modern Schools won first place in the Transport and Smart Cities sector, and the Saferace project from Manarat Al-Riyadh Schools took first place in the Technology and Artificial Intelligence sector.

During the ceremony, teams and projects that won second and third places across the eight sectors of the competition were also honored in recognition of their entrepreneurial ideas and projects.

The honors also included winners of special awards, namely: Best Prototype Award, Best Presentation Award, Innovation and Creativity Award, Social Entrepreneurship Award, and Best Teamwork Award, in recognition of the excellence and innovation demonstrated by the participating projects and teams.