Nine Ethiopian university students are representing their country at the 8th Huawei ICT Competition 2023-2024 Regional Final, which is taking place in Tunisia.
The nine students are those who won the national final Huawei ICT competition organized by Huawei in collaboration with Ethiopian Ministry of Education in Ethiopia last year.
The local winners are now competing with 90 students from 9 countries, namely Ethiopia, Mali, Cameroon, Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and Morocco.
The 6th round in Ethiopia and the 8th in the world Huawei ICT competition 2023/2024, which attracts more than 1,000 higher education students, held their preliminary and national final exams consecutively in Ethiopia.
Huawei ICT Competition is a competitive ICT talent exchange event designed for global college students. Huawei intends to give students with an environment for healthy competition and idea exchange, thereby improving their ICT knowledge and practical abilities, as well as their ability to innovate by utilizing new technologies and platforms.
Ethiopian students competing in Tunisia originate from Addis Ababa Science and Technology, Jimma, Haromaya, and Arbaminch Universities, and to encourage students, three instructors have traveled with them.
Ethiopian students previously achieved third place at the 7th Huawei ICT global final competition, which took place in Shenzhen, China, from May 24 to May 28, 2023.