Congratulations
The American University of Madaba (AUM) Team Win the Hult Prize Regional-Tunisia
The winning team are; Ghadeer Abu Qulbain, Marwan Abu Skha, Hadeel Abu Qulbain, Zena Khaled, Zaid AL-Khafagy
Hult Prize is a worldwide competition that aims to solve social challenges facing the world, this year issue to be solved is youth unemployment, the competitors are university students.
The winning idea was “Hotel on Wheels” which was inspired by Mohammad Malaheem who turned his Volkswagen Beetle into the smallest hotel in Al-Shoubak. We chose his idea to be globalized and to create a differentiated experience of temporary lodging in reused scrap cars. The new idea is a bed and breakfast but instead of being in a house, it will be in a car. The new hotel gives a humble stay bound by culture, surrounded by historical and naturally enriched sites.
The Hult Prize is the world’s biggest engine for the launch of for good and for-profit startups emerging from university campuses with over 2500 staff and volunteers around the world. In nearly a decade, the movement has deployed more than $50M of capital into the sector and mobilized more than one million young people to re-think the future of business as it continues to breed disruptive innovation on college and university campuses across 100 plus countries.
Participants compete in local events organized in cities, countries and on campuses around the world. Regional programs are hosted world-wide, and winners of these events get to spend 8 weeks living, working, learning and playing in a castle in the UK. 6 teams will be chosen from all the teams competing to go to the final step which will happen in the United Nations headquarters to win one million US $ for one winner to establish their business idea to reality.
The Hult Prize is the official kick-off to UN GLOBAL GOALS WEEK, so it’s the perfect place to pitch for a million dollars. Collectively, more than one-hundred thousand students around the world, representing more than 150 countries participate in the Hult Prize spend over 10 million man-hours on solving the world’s most pressing issues. Tens of thousands more students organize various training and programming throughout the years. Through crowd-sourcing, training, mentorship and funding, the Hult Prize seeks to build and launch the next wave of social entrepreneurs, all of whom are poised to change the world (http://www.hultprize.org/faqs/) .
During the announcement of regional winner, the inning team gave special thanks to Hult Prize campus director ,Ghadeer abu Qulbain ,for bringing this competition to AUM, and to Dr .Sami Al-Tal for his support throughout the whole journey, for the administration of the American University of Madaba and their families and friends for giving them support and believing in them.
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