The Vice President for Student Affairs and External Relations, Prof. Fawwaz Al-Abed Al-Haq sponsored the closing ceremony of the global competition "Hult Prize", the biggest student competition in the world for pioneering social entrepreneurs.
Abed Al-Haq praised the students for participating in extracurricular activities, international projects and prizes that aim at creating constructive ideas needed to solve the problems that societies face, pointing that YU has keen interest in supporting students’ creative ideas.
Dr. Abed Al-Haq referred to several success stories for people who, through strong will and good planning, have become independent and entrepreneurial personalities worldwide, and he encouraged students to be innovative to better serve their country, university and themselves.
For her part, the Dean of the Student affairs, Dr. Amal Nusir, pointed that YU students’ participation in Hult Prize is a source of pride. She added that this participation shows a good example of YU students’ capabilities to deal with challenging social problems, such as poverty and unemployment, and solving them.
The dean further stated that the Deanship of Student Affairs pay particular attention to extracurricular activities and various competitions, particularly the ones that aim at solving social problems. She added that such activities have positive impact on the students as they gain self-confidence to change for the better.
Mr. Ayman Arindi, the manager of the Hult Prize in Jordan expressed his thanks and appreciation to YU for encouraging their students to participate in the prize and for supporting their ideas to serve the community. Mr. Arindi also gave an introduction about the prize and the method of application for it.
At the end of the ceremony, the names of the teams, that won the best projects to solve the problem of unemployment, were announced. The team of Fares Al-Shamali, Malak Al-Shamali, Sahira Al-Omari, and Mohammed Al-Qazaqzeh came first place. The team of Leen Al-Zoubi, Mahmoud Salam, Suha Al-Tahat and Raghad Hawari came second, and the team of Ahmad Al-Smadi, Ahmed Balawneh, Mohammed Al-Zwairi came third. The three winning teams from YU will compete locally and then globally in the following stage of the prize to win $1 million.
The ceremony was attended by a number of university officials in addition to officials from the award program and a number of university students.
It is worth noting that Hult Prize is a partnership between Hult International Business School and the United Nations Foundation. The Prize is an annual, year-long competition that crowd-sources ideas from college students after challenging them to solve pressing social issues.
Student Sarah Ghraize from the Faculty of Pharmacy manages the prize at YU.
