Egyptian Teams Compete in Huawei ICT Competition 2021-2022 Global Finals
The Huawei ICT Competition 2021–2022 Global Finals kicked off at Huawei's Bantian Base in Shenzhen, China, featuring the slogan of “I.C. The Future”, with the participation of 2 Egyptian teams of 6 students from different Egyptian universities in the fields of Cloud and Networking. This year's competition, focused on the themes of "Connection • Glory • Future".
In Egypt, more than 1,500 Egyptian students registered to take the preliminary exams in the first stage, 500 of whom took the National exam. Then, 18 students with the highest score were selected to the next stage, which is a boot-camp training before the regional and global exams. After that, the 18 students were evaluated and the top 6 were picked to qualify for the Global Finals in the fields of Cloud and Network. The top students who participated in Huawei ICT Competition will be awarded during the 3rd Annual Conference to receive their Medals, certificates and their gifts. Huawei hosts the ICT Competition annually to provide students with a platform to compete and exchange ideas, enhance their ICT knowledge and practical skills, and foster their capabilities to innovate by using new technologies and platforms. This year's competition attracted 150,000 students who represented over 2000 universities and colleges in 85 countries and regions. A total of 132 teams from 43 countries and regions made it to the Global Finals after battling it out at their respective country-level and regional competitions.
The 6th edition of the Huawei ICT Competition includes three racks to the competition: Practice, Innovation and Industry, with the Practice section further split into two sub-tracks — Network and Cloud. This year's Global Finals will be held online due to the ongoing pandemic. The Practice track final consists of 8-hour lab exams and the Innovation and Industry track finals will consist of presentations from participating teams on their solutions and follow-up Q&As from the judges. In addition, this year's participants will be the first to compete for a new series of Women In Tech Awards which have been designed to honor the outstanding talent displayed by the young women leaders in the competition. Steven Zhu, Huawei Enterprise's President of Partner Development and Vice President of Global Partner Development and Sales, kicked off the opening ceremony by saying, "ICT industry development will require a large number of highly skilled ICT experts. Huawei is trying to build education, industry and public talent ecosystems while improving digital skills across society so that our industry can flourish. As an important part of Huawei's efforts to build an education talent ecosystem, the competition is essential for promoting equitable and high-quality education." Peter Wells, Chief of UNESCO's Section for Higher Education, also spoke at the event via a video message praising the competition's ability to give students around the world free access to educational courses and study materials, as part of their preparation for the competition. He ended his address on how he hopes UNESCO and Huawei will work together to improve the digital skills and technological literacy of global talent, promote balanced and equitable development across regions, and bridge digital divides around the world.
Finally, Sun Gang, Huawei's Director of Talent Ecosystem Development, who attended onsite closed out the ceremony by wishing the contestants good luck and saying he looked forward to seeing how the students would showcase their ICT knowledge and skills, and encouraged them to use ICTs to transform our lives, create a better digital future and contribute to human development. The Innovation Competition as well as the closing ceremony of the Global Final will be broadcast live. This live broadcast event will also include the launch of Huawei's newest Talent Cultivation Solution, the Huawei Academy Talent Training Platform. The closing and award ceremony will be held on June 25th.
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