Princess Sumaya University for Technology has won first place in the Arab world and locally, and 13th globally in the annual programming competition (IEEEXtreme).

HRH Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan, Chair of the University’s Board of Trustees, congratulated the winning team and its coaches on this achievement, which confirms the high position the university has reached globally, praising the efforts of students and supervisors, and their tireless pursuit of excellence and continuous excellence.

For her part, the Acting President of the University, Dr. Wejdan Abu Al-Haijaa, praised the winning teams and their supervisors, praising this honorable achievement, which meets the aspirations, and is in line with the interest of HRH Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan in preparing a generation of young people with the skills that support their academic achievement to achieve career success. Pioneering.

According to a university press release today, Sunday, its victory came through its team of students: Issam Tuffaha, Muhammad Al-Kilani, Ahmed Hammouda, and under the supervision of the Dean of King Hussein College for Computing Sciences, Dr. Ashraf Ahmed and Dr. Firas Ghanem, with the participation of about 13,000 students, who formed 6,373 teams, from 62 countries worldwide.

Dr. Ashraf indicated the college’s keenness to prepare its students to participate annually in such a competition with the aim of building students’ software capabilities, enhancing their creativity, and putting them in front of challenges represented in how to invest and manage time, by highlighting software problems worldwide, in order to find the best solutions. to her.

The competition is a global challenge in which teams of male and female students from IEEE compete with each other to solve a set of programming problems in a 24-hour period.

It is noteworthy that the university, through this competition, maintained its presence in the first eight teams last year, achieving first place in the Arab world and seventh in the world, as well as being a champion for the Middle East and Africa in the International Programming Competition for World University Students (ICPC 2021) that was held in Moscow.

The university’s team qualified this year for the International Programming Competition (ICPC 2022) to be held in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, early next month, without going through the regional competition to be held soon in the Arab Republic of Egypt, due to the team’s excellence and its high programming ability, to be the sixth qualification for the university.