Nigerian students win 3rd prize in 2019 Huawei ICT competition
ANigerian team comprising three students from Ah ma dub el lo university, Zaria, has emerged third place among the top three winners in the 2019 Global Final of Huawei ICT Competition.
The global final of Huawei ICT competition, a top-level event for students in the field ended May 26, at the company’ s new headquarters in Southern China City of Dongguan, China.
This is the only team that emerged winner in the global ICT contest, where the team of nigerian students competed with 49 other teams with a total of 147 students, representing 30 countries racing for the global trophy.
There were four first-prize winners, from China, Malaysia, Peru and Algeria. Participants from Nigeria won the 3rd prize. They are the only winner team in the five Southern Africa representative teams.
These world-class ICT talents who return home Tuesday were given a warm reception at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, abuja, by thehua wei technologies company nigeria limited.
Tank Li, general manager of Huawei Technologies (Abuja office), said, “Talent eco-system is the core supporting of the strategy platform + AI+ eco-system.”
According to li ,“people are the most important factor in eco-system and the foundation for maintaining the vitality and sustained growth of the industrial chain. Huawei understands the value of a good talent ecosystem, which is the foundation for a smart future.
“In the past 30 years, Huawei has made a lot of efforts to cultivate ICT talents by sharing accumulated knowledge systems and best practices. Faced with the challenges of the future ICT industry, Huawei has established a global ICT talent certification standard, and combined with educational institutions, industry associations and various partners to establish an ICT talent training platform to jointly build a benign ICT talent eco-systemthis ICT competition is part of our innovative initiatives to support and promote ICT skills.
“We believe that this event will inspire more students interest in I ct learning in africa. this platform provides students with a world class stage to showcase themselves and consolidate the vita li ct needed for Africa’s development.”
Ibrahim Garba, vice chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University who led the Nigerian, team expressed satisfaction with the performance of the students who despite being new to some of the technologies but remained resolute and beat some best universities in the world.
Garba said, “I pity my boys because they went with very limited preparation from environment that is so limited with infrastructure and then competing with the best of the world. The China has about seven teams in the best of the universities and we were still able to beat some.
“My boys met new technologies that they were never conversant with but they still did their best. This competition has opened our eyes. we have made a lot of link ages with our sister universities who are also been supported by Huawei”.
A deb a yo abdulqudus,22-y earold Nigerian university student on the team, describing the dedication and hard work it took the team of Nigerian students heading for the top trophy, said:
“For the past eight months, we left our families, we left relatives, we left our friends, we left out social lives, we want these and we want to win. Though we got the 3 rd the prize, but our participation, the experience and the opportunity to learn is the most important thing of all.”
Huawei ICT competition is an annual routine I CT event for students created byhua wei. it aims to provide an international competitive and communication platform for Huawei ICT Academies and the colleges and universities that are willing to become Huawei ICT Academy to increase students communication technology and improve their practice, application skills and innovation awareness.
This is the fourth ICT competition held by Huawei. Since its launch in June 2018, Over 100 thousand university students from 61 countries participated. Most of them are from the developing countries. Using what they learn to change their countries is a common wish for them.
The Huawei ICT Competition is a global ICT talent competition exchange event, which comprises ofhua wei authorized information and Network Technology Academy universities College (Huawei I ct academy) and related colleges universities (Huawei ICT Academy). Since the first Huawei ICT contest held in 2015, the number of participants in the competition has grown exponentially and this has become one of the largest ICT events in the world.
The 2018/19 event has attracted more than 1,000 universities in more than over 50 countries around the world under the slogan Connection, glory and future. the total number of students participating globally was 80,000 students, including 28, 000 students from sub-saharan Africa.
The best Nigerian participants that join the competition won the national competition with the full scores, which is rare in the global. And they won regional competition with the first prize. Eventually, they got the chance to attend the global final and compete with 49 teams from 30 countries, a total of 147 students on the same stage.