Student Teams from 25 Universities compete to win the Smart Cities Hackathon at Benha University

The 40 student teams which represent 25 public and private universities continue their participation in activities of the "Smart Cities Hackathon", which is held at Benha University.
The students are working on implementing prototypes of their innovative solutions for the ten tracks identified within the Hackathon events which includes; Smart buildings, smart facilities, smart parks, smart transportation-traffics, smart hospitals, smart recycling, smart monitoring, smart energy, smart management, smart schools and universities.
It is noteworthy that the Hackathon activities are going to be held in cooperation with the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and Amazon Web Services under the auspices of Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, the minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research. It is conducted in from 24/3/2022 to 26/3/2022. It is worth mentioning that the winning teams in the Hackathon are going to get financial prizes totaling 100,000 Egyptian pounds by Benha University. The winners will also have a great opportunity to have a new market for their innovations; namely the newly-established private universities.