• Top three Global Innovation Challenge winners to present their projects at Singularity University Global Summit in California • Winner of GEMS Xcelerator Programme received AED 10,000 and 12 months’ support to bring their product to market Winner of GEMS ENBD Future of Digital Finance challenge received mentorship, internship and product incubation at Emirates NBD
Dubai newsOver 200 students from across the GEMS Education network of schools were recognized at the GEMS Innovation Awards held at GEMS Dubai American Academy on 1 May. Awards were handed out to top performers in four separate challenges – Global Innovation Challenge, GEMS Xcelerator Programme, GEMS ENBD Future of Digital Finance Challenge, and GEMS Innovative School of the Year.The 2018-19 Global Innovation Challenge, in partnership with Silicon Valley-based Singularity University, was launched in October last year and has seen tens of thousands of GEMS Education students apply their skills and knowledge to produce high-impact solutions to a range of global problems and challenges. EXPO 2020 in Dubai most innovative projects were shortlisted and, over the last two months, some 100 students across 35 teams have benefitted from mentorship from industry professionals, seed funding and entrepreneurship workshops. Teams then pitched their ideas to a panel of judges from VISA, Emirates Airline, Microsoft, INJAZ UAE, DTEC and other organizations during a special ‘Demo Days’ event held on 28 and 29 April at GEMS World Academy – Dubai, after which the eventual winners were selected.Dino Varkey, Chief Executive Officer, GEMS Education, said: “The GEMS Innovation Awards were launched specifically with the aim of developing and recognizing a culture of innovation among our students. We want to encourage and enable them to build on compelling ideas that can transform our world by addressing and finding solutions to some of humanity’s most pressing challenges, Government Jobs in Dubai also helping them to take their products and inventions to the next stage of development and eventually to market. This underlines our commitment to the UAE leadership’s vision to nurture innovation skills among our young generation, and we are incredibly proud of the enterprise and genius showed by our talented students.”
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