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.
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 between the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and Amazon Web Services and under the auspices of Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research in the period from 2432022 to 2632022. It is worth mentioning that the winning teams in the Hackathon are going to receive financial prizes totaling 100,000 Egyptian pounds that provided by Benha University. In addition to getting valuable prizes provided by Amazon Web Services, the winners will also have a great opportunity to market their innovations to the new Egyptian private universities.