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Queen Rania presents awards to winners of "MIT Solve Challenge Finals"

18-09-2017 07:13 AM


Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah Sunday presented awards to the winners of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Solve Challenge Finals in New York, during a working visit to the United States with His Majesty King Abdullah II.

Attended by approximately 300 people, the MIT Solve Challenge Finals urges innovators to develop lasting solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges facing learning, health, sustainability, and economic prosperity.

In her role as co-chair of the ‘Youth, Skills, and the Workforce of the Future’ challenge, Queen Rania joined Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop and Atlassian Head of Foundation Mark Reading in presenting a number of awards to the winners.

Before the awards ceremony, Queen Rania had a brief meeting with MIT President L. Rafael Reif, who has been heading the leading technological institute since 2012.

An initiative of MIT, Solve is a community that brings together technologists, social entrepreneurs, business leaders, policymakers, researchers, and other change agents to unearth and implement solutions to specific, actionable challenges.

In the ‘Youth, Skills, and the Workforce of the Future’ challenge, participants focused on building upon the fourth United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (UNSDG), developing solutions to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education.

Under the challenge, problem-solvers put forward various solutions to equip disadvantaged young people under the age of 24 from low socio-economic backgrounds with the 21st-century-skills needed for them to join the workforce.




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