Zubair Qureshi
Islamabad
The Pakistan teams won two prices, the first and the third, in the Global Final of the Huawei ICT Competition 2019–2020 that came to a successful conclusion at Huawei’s Songshan Lake campus in Dongguan.
In the final competition, Pakistan’s Team 1 bagged the first prize in the Network Track of the practice competition and the Pakistan Team 2 won the third prize.
The global final, focusing on the theme of “Connection-Glory-Future” was held online due to Covid-19 pandemic.
Pakistan Team 1 members included Muhammad Umar from Virtual University Lahore, Neeraj Harijan from Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro and Haseeb Mehdi from NUST Islamabad.
Members of Team 2 consisted of Muhammad Salman from Superior University, Syed Qazi Shameel Uddin from Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro and Syed Muhammad Kazmain from NUST Islamabad.
Since 2016, Huawei has annually invited students from colleges and universities in Pakistan to participate in the ICT competition to promote ICT technology certifications, transferring ICT knowledge and developing the local ICT industry ecosystem.
12,000+ university students registered themselves for the Huawei Pakistan ICT Competition 2019-2020.
Only after the rigorous process of preliminary exams, enablement trainings, certification exam and the national final exam weretop 6 studentswere selected and divided into two teams to represent Pakistan in the global final.
