Events
Saudi Arabia to Participate in Dubai’s ‘First Global Challenge 2019’
Saudi Arabia will be joining the 2019 FIRST Global DXB Challenge robotics event happening in Dubai on October 24 until the 27th, and this marks the first time for the event to be held outside America.
The event brings together more than 1,500 youth from 191 countries, those youth have passion for technology, science, engineering and math and together they compete in the field of robotics and AI. This year, the challenge tackles critical issues that face the world and that includes wastage of water and energy, sustainability and pollution.
Five students will represent Saudi Arabia and they are Sulafa Al-Shehri, Fadil Younes, Ghala Al-Shamekh, Abdulaziz Al-Nutaifi and Jana Al-Zayer, lead and mentored by Dr. Kamal Chenaoua, a faculty member in the Department of Computer Engineering at King Fahd University and managing the team is Maysoon Homidan, a Computer Engineer graduate from Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University.
The global event is organized by the Dubai Future Foundation under the theme ‘Ocean Opportunities’, the event aims at developing robots who then can help clean up the oceans from the tons of pollutants caused by factories, marine activities and sewage systems that are mismanaged.
In five days, an international motor show, will take place in Jeddah. The Jeddah superdome, 6th December and until 10th of December, will be one of the biggest international motor shows. The exhibition is sponsored by the ministry of transport and logistics and organized by the Salah company. The Jeddah Superdome, has set a world Record for being the largest freestanding dome in the world, in contrast to the Tokyo Dome which formerly held the title, with 206 meters. Located on the Madinah Road, West of King Abdallah sport City, the Jeddah Superdome has an internal area of 24,000 square meters, and a height of 46 meters, with a diameter of 210 meters, a parking space that accommodates 5200 viceless. The exhibition includes many experiences such as drifting, with professional drivers, on dedicated racks, go karting, off road experience with SUVs with professional drivers in a dedicated circuit, and an opportunity to drive the car of your dreams. In addition to restaurants, cafes that suit all of your tastes. The exhibition includes many important car agencies and exclusive launches of many vintage and antique cars presented for the first time in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in addition to an auction of rare classic cars, with more than 35 luxury and rare cars on display. The auction was held by the Silverstone auctioneers, the biggest UK classic car auction house. The event is the biggest in its name, and the car industry, featuring the oldest cars, but unfortunately nothing was sold.
Beaches of the Kingdom are about to get cleaner with the ‘Let’s Make Them Cleaner’ initiative, which was launched on Friday by the Saudi Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development.
Professional divers are taking part of the campaign as volunteers who are ready to clean the beaches and seabeds of Saudi Arabia, in order to save the marine environment from pollution.
The initiative is one of the events launched for Saudi and International Volunteer Day, which is celebrated every year on the 5th of December.
Entitles ‘Ataa Watan,’ the event covers several programs and activities across Saudi Arabia, they were held in partnership with government bodies and NGOs.
So far, the ministry launched five initiatives throughout this year, as part of the Voluntary Work Platform it launched on March 31, 2020.
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