ISLAMABAD: International Islamic University’s (IIUI) Mechanical Engineering department’s team has been selected among final 6 teams of the HULT PRIZE, it emerged Sunday. “As many as 28 teams competed to make place in the final where 6 teams including IIUI managed for the final stage competition will be taking place in New York on 20th Sep 2022 for the grand prize of 1Million USD,” a communiqué by the varsity said. The Hult Prize challenges young people around the world to solve the planet’s most pressing issues through social entrepreneurship. Earlier, according to the university, this team won the HULT PRIZE Regional Summit and also won the HULT PRIZE 2022 Global Accelerator Program in Boston, U.S.A. To reach this stage they competed with 200,000 teams worldwide initially and 28 teams in Global Accelerator Program. “The success story started from winning the funding of 600,000/- PKR from PSF, sponsored by UNESCO, UNDP and other famous companies for the development of the “Low-Cost Plastic Waste Recycling Machine”. This machine converts plastic waste into 3-D printing filament. ONLINE
