National Scientific Competition for Young Creators Held in Lattakia

The Syrian Youths seek developing and enhancing their presence in different domains most notable of which are creativity and invention.

80 participants from ten Syrian governorates presented their scientific projects in the “National Scientific Competition for Young Creators” recently held at the Central Library of Tishreen University in Lattakia province.

The three-day scientific competition, held  by the Revolutionary Youth Union ( RYU), was characterized by distinguished inventions that serve society in case they are carried out.

 “The National Scientific Competition for Young Creators comes within the framework of the RYU’s plan for the year 2019 as well as its keenness on supporting and encouraging the Syrian creative youths in all domains, especially the scientific and invention ones”, Abdel Mone’im Al-Sawa, Member of the RYU leadership, Head of the RYU Central Media and Informatics Office said in a statement to SANA correspondent in Lattakia.

He made it clear that 380 youths presented various projects in the fields of informatics, physics, sciences, environment and health, indicating that 80 of these projects reached the finals of the competition and 9 of them were selected to win.

On her part, Head of the Media  and Informatics Office at the RYU branch in Lattakia, Rose Sa’eed told SANA correspondent that participants in the competition are divided into three age groups that include students from the basic education, secondary education and higher education.

Sa’eed stressed the importance of the competition in terms of spreading the culture of creativity and bringing up a generation of distinguished Syrian youth.

The student Wissam Al-Khatib, from Hama Governorate, said that his participation in the competition is represented in a smart farm project in which agriculture, irrigation and harvesting operations can be controlled electronically.

 On his part, Younes Shiha, student in class 11 at the National Center for the Distinguished (NCD)  in Lattakia, together with a group of his colleagues, carried out a project on recycling electronic waste and reduce the environmental pollution caused by it.

From Aleppo province, two students: Refaat Naqshbandi and Hassan Dabbagh, whose project ranked first among other winning  projects in the competition, designed a smart house equipped with a safety sensor to alarm in case of theft or fire. The house can be fully controlled by smart devices, they noted.

Yazen Ghassan Fatna, a student at the Mechatronics Department at Al-Baath university in  Homs province, talked about his project, which won the first position, saying “the Syrian crisis, which caused disability to many people, has prompted me together with five other colleagues to think of designing a project to help those people. So we designed a wheelchair, which can climb up and down stairs independently”. “The project is meant to serve wounded people”,  said Yazan, adding it is their first participation in the competition.

The youths participating in the competition underscored the importance of such events in supporting youths’ creative skills, enhancing their self-confidence and achieving positive change in society.

It is noteworthy to mention that among the nine winner projects were “the Advanced Window”, an educational platform called “Arab Technology”,  a smart car operated by a glove and information archiving system.

The winning projects are due to represent the RYU in the Al-Bassel Exhibition on creativity and innovation due to be held by the Ministry of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection next month.

Rawaa Ghanam