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After winning in the regional phase of the Huawei ICT Competition 2023-24, the Bangladesh team has gone to China to participate in the global round to be held in Shenzhen.
The group of three students of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) left Dhaka for China on Tuesday night, says a press release.
The students are Shuvam Agarwala, Rakesh Kar and Md Mazharul Islam from the RUET Computer Science and Engineering Department.
Earlier, the team secured third position in the Asia Pacific (APAC) round of the Huawei ICT Competition in Jakarta, Indonesia, competing against 6,400 students from 14 countries.
More than 520 students and 170 teachers from 40 countries are participating in the final phase at Shenzhen. This final phase is a competition among 174 teams, who will compete in four tracks -- network track, cloud track, computing track and innovation track.
Bangladesh will compete with 51 other teams on the network track.
In addition to the competition, the participants will get the opportunity to participate in technology and cultural exchange programmes, visit Huawei's research and development centre and headquarters, and learn about Chinese heritage in this six-day tour.
Li Zongsheng, Board Member, Huawei South Asia, shares “From Huawei, we arrange various initiatives for talent development among students of Bangladesh. Huawei ICT Competition is one of them. Since its inception, it has gained popularity worldwide among students in a very short time. I am very happy to see that Bangladeshi students have reached the global finals with flying colours. I wish them best of luck.”
Prof Dr Engr Md Jahangir Alam, Vice-Chancellor of RUET, congratulated the students who enrolled in the competition. He expressed the hope that the RUET team would shine in the final stage.
Huawei launched the Huawei ICT Competition last October in Bangladesh for the second time to build a strong ICT ecosystem in the country. More than 1,000 students from 25 universities participated in the competition.