Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah met today with “The Pen” team members who won the Microsoft Imagine Cup Jordan competition for 2014.
The Microsoft Imagine Cup is a global student technology competition that provides an opportunity for students to use their imagination and passion to create technology solutions that address the main theme of the competition.
The Pen Team, which is comprised of two students from the Jordan University of Science and Technology, Mou’men Alnemrat and Tareq Bani-Domi, was the overall winner of Imagine Cup 2014 Jordan. The team also ranked first in the ‘Innovation’ category which recognizes application developers who deliver accessible innovations and advance major platforms such as social networks, search engines, classified advertisements, or online shopping.
The Pen Team won for developing an application that improves and enhances user experience when drawing and or writing using touch screen devices.
During the meeting, Her Majesty expressed her deep pride in all Jordanian youth who took part in the competition and congratulated the Pen Team on their national win and wished them luck in the Arab Semi-Finals cup to take place in Qatar. The Queen also stressed the importance of supporting young local talents and encouraging further innovation.
General Manager of Microsoft North Africa, Eastern Mediterranean and Pakistan, Sayed Hashish, who also attended the meeting, thanked Their Majesties King Abdullah II and Queen Rania for their support which helped pave the way for increasing Jordanian representation in Microsoft competitions.
Country Manager at Microsoft Jordan, Hussein Malhas, noted that this year, 500 students from different Jordanian universities and schools took part in the competition. 11 teams reached the final stages and competed in three different categories.
Technology Evangelist Lead at Microsoft, Ayman Afaneh, said the Pen Team will go on to represent Jordan at the Imagine Cup Arab Semi-Finals in Qatar, during which it will compete against participants from 22 Arab countries. Winners of this round will move on to the worldwide final, taking place in July 2014 in Seattle, USA.
Source: Petra