IUG Engineering team ‘Gaza Hologram’ was able to beat 40 other local teams and was thus qualified for the finales. IUG’s students at the Faculty of Engineering Mahmoud Munir Radi, Ziad Abdul Nasser ad-Dahdouh, and Mohammed Fawzi Al Hallaq were the winning contributors to represent Palestine in the Hult Prize World Competition. This year’s theme was challenging; however, the students were perfectly able to meet the challenge and win.
This year’s topic was: ‘the possibility of implementing sustainable, fast growing, social projects in crowded civilized territories to double the income of 10,000,000 people living in these territories through improving communication means between the people, the goods and the services offered’.
The team’s idea was mainly about making use of the available area in a way that could end the problem of crowdedness while providing income for the inhabitants through the lands which will be provided after the implementation of the project. The team applied the project on Jabalia Camp which has an area of 1,440 Donum as a project sample. Then only 600 Donum were used. They included buildings and public facilities. In addition, they took into consideration the increase in population the coming 10 years. Therefore, 800 Donum were set aside for investment for the benefit of the people living in the camp.
When the team was asked why they chose to call themselves ‘Gaza Hologram’, they said, “Holograms are basically a three-dimensional image of the holographed subject (i.e. it offers additional dimensions).This is what we hope to do. We want to offer solutions and new perspectives.”
“Our students can compete nationally, regionally and internationally. They have the skills and they have the potentials,” emphasized Dr. Farid Al Qeeq, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at IUG.
What is Hult Prize Global Competition?
It is a prize offered by the Clinton Foundation in Partnership with Hult Prize for university students with change-making ideas. The finales will be held in the beginning of March 2016. It will be held in 5 cities: Boston, San Francisco, London, Dubai, and Shanghai. The 6 winners of the regional phase will be hosted in Boston. The world finale will be held in New York. The winner will receive 1,000,000 USD as a start for the project.
