One Million Jordanian Coders Initiative launches competition to enhance youth skills

AMMAN — The One Million Jordanian Coders Initiative on Tuesday announced a “Coding Communities” competition to scale up youth’s abilities in coding and teach them new skills.

The initiative is implemented by the Crown Prince Foundation (CPF), in partnership with the Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship, and in cooperation with the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Cabinet Affairs and the Future, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. 

The initiative said that the contest brings together groups of school and university students, youth centres and knowledge stations, provides high quality education opportunities and enables youth to strengthen their skills and boost digital economy in Jordan. 

The targeted groups can register as of Tuesday through the initiative’s social media accounts.

It noted that individuals and host schools and universities will be competing for three prizes: The first is worth JD5,000 for the top 10 students who submit prototypes in the second phase of a technical project that solves a social challenge.

The second is worth JD3,000 for the top 10 teachers or community leaders, who followed up on the individuals participating in the contest, while the third prize involves giving away 30 computers and tablets to the top three schools, centres, or organisations that hosted the coding community.

The competition will go on until February 2022, and an independent committee of experts in the technical and entrepreneurship fields will evaluate the projects and announce a winner by March of the same year.