HANIF ABID
\nIslamabad
\nHULT Prize competition\u2019s quarter final round was held at COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI) at the Seminar Hall of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. The yearly HULT Prize, in partnership with the United Nations (UN), is the world\u2019s largest college and university students\u2019 competition for budding social entrepreneurs. The process involves working with the academic institutions, the students, and members of community to spread awareness of the UN\u2019s Challenge, promoting social entrepreneurship as a sustainable means to solve it. This year\u2019s theme is \u201cBuilding the foundation of a venture that will provide meaningful work for 10,000 youth within the next decade\u201d.
\nThe winners of the intra-campus event will automatically advance to compete in one of the 27 regional finals happening around the world. The final round of competition will be hosted in September 2019 and the winning team of the final round shall be awarded $1,000,000 prize.
\nThe HULT Prize competition held at CUI had 15 participating teams. The sponsors for this event were PASTIC, Coca Cola and National Incubation Center. The Judges panel consisted of 08 professionals from the Industry.
\nOut of 15 teams, Team Solution Makers qualified for final round in Dubai. Team Apna Kitchen and Team Shirjoin were declared as runners up. Team Solution Makers idea was to create a platform where people could buy cheap stuff online through different sellers providing stuff in bulk creating large scale mid-level jobs.<\/p>\n
Dr. Tahir Mumtaz Awan, In charge Undergraduate programs, Department of Management Sciences and President BEAMS, CUI appreciated the Judges, sponsors and media partners for contributing to the event. He also thanked the judges for sparing their precious time to grace the event. At the end, the judges were presented Certificates of appreciation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
HANIF ABID Islamabad HULT Prize competition\u2019s quarter final round was held at COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI) at the Seminar Hall of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. The yearly HULT Prize, in partnership with the United Nations (UN), is the world\u2019s largest college and university students\u2019 competition for budding social entrepreneurs. The process involves working with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-national"],"yoast_head":"\n