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Winner:<\/strong> Hiat<\/g>\u00a0 \u062d\u064a\u0627\u0629\"\"<\/a>
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Description: <\/strong>Connecting skilled refugees and the local community in an easy-to-use gig-economy platform.
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Mentor: <\/strong>Islam El-Ashi (Software Engineer Twitter)
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Students: <\/strong>Camilo Luciano (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argenitina<\/g>), Amr Aljundi (American University of Sharjah, UAE) Vladimir Ilievski (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland), Sonia Xu (Hacking Medicine, MIT, USA), Radwa Hamed (The American University in Cairo, Egypt) and Munira Alali (Khalifa University, UAE)<\/span><\/p>\n

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2nd Place:<\/strong> 3ndi Headache (I Have a Headache)\"\"<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Presentation Order: 9
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Description:<\/strong> Automating triage nurses.<\/p>\n

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Mentors<\/strong>: <\/b>Razan Qraini (WebTeb, Senior Android Developer, Palestine), Varun Arora (CEO, OpenCurriculum, USA) and Lingliang Zhang (NYUAD, UK)<\/p>\n

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Students:<\/b> Daniel Watson (NYUAD, UAE), Khalid Abul Borghol (AUS, UAE), Hayat Al Hasan (NYUAD, UAE), Eithar<\/g> Al Fatih (University of Khartoum, Sudan), Moiri<\/g> Gamboni\u00a0 (NYUAD, Australia), Chenhao Xu (NYUAD, UAE) and Munachiso Nwadike (NYUAD, Nigeria)<\/p>\n

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3rd Place:<\/strong> Tarakeeb\u00a0 \"\"<\/a>\u062a\u0631\u0627\u0643\u064a\u0628<\/h2>\n

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Presentation Order: 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Description: <\/strong>An automated grammar checker to teach Arabic.
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Mentors: <\/strong>Anas Shahrour (Hamza Founder, UAE), Balsam Alkouz (University of Sharjah Research Assistant, UAE), David Warr (Language Garden Ltd, Founder, UK), Hanan Hadad (Lynx Vision Graphic Designer, UAE) and Saeed Motamed (Networkful<\/g> CTO, UAE)<\/p>\n

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Students: <\/strong><\/span>Lama Ahmad (NYUAD, UAE), Fahmi Alnajjar (Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan), Maha Amjad (NUCES FAST, Pakistan), Skye Im<\/g> (NYU Shanghai, China) and Shorook Saleh (University of Sharjah, UAE)<\/p>\n

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3rd Place:<\/strong> AnNahr\u00a0\u00a0\u0627\u0644\u0646\u0647\u0631\u00a0 (The Stream)\"\"<\/a>
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Presentation Order: 10
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Description:<\/strong> An interactive hardware\/software solution that addresses the issue of water wastage during the Wudhu (ablution) at the Masjid (mosques) by providing feedback to the user in an attempt to raise awareness and change their behavior, encouraging positive water saving.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mentors<\/strong>:<\/b> Fahim Dalvi (Qatar Computing Research Institute<\/span>), Sama Kanbour (General Electric, Qatar) and Joyce Zhang (Boston Consulting Group, US)<\/p>\n

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Students:<\/b>\u00a0 Zakaria Belkham<\/g> (M\u2019Hamed Bouguerra University of Boumerd\u00e9s Algeria), Abdur Rahman Hijazi (Birla Institute of Technology UAE), Emmad Arif (Yale University, US), Elissa Mkanna (American University of Beirut, Lebanon), Driss El Ouiqary (National School of Applied Sciences of Tangier, Morocco),\u00a0 Abdelrazaq Al-Sharif (Innovation Engineer StartAD, UAE) and Seyed Mohammad Ahlesaadat (NYUAD, UAE)<\/p>\n

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Audience Winner: Teslam\u00a0 \u062a\u0633\u0644\u0645\"\"<\/a>
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Presentation Order: 8<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Description:<\/strong> Service to visualize actionable data in the Arab world related to NCDs (specifically obesity & diabetes) through big data & machine learning, to share with government and business entities, and to educate the targeted subjects of these diseases through a conversational intelligent chat bot.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mentors<\/strong>:<\/b> Farah Shamout (University of Oxford, PhD<\/g> Student, UK), Harini Kannan (Google, Research Software Engineer, US) and Khalid Machchate (K&W Technologies International, CEO, Morocco)<\/p>\n

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Students:<\/b> Athra Al Khatri (UAE University, UAE), Shahan Ali Memon (Carnegie Mellon University, Pakistan), Leanne Dsouza (Middlesex University Dubai, UAE), Khalid AlAwar<\/g> (Khalifa University, UAE), Ibrahim Soltan (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar) and Daria Z\u0103h\u0103leanu (NYUAD, UAE)<\/p>\n

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Tabboush\u00a0 \u0637\u0628\u0648\u0634\"\"<\/a>
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Presentation Order: 6
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Description:<\/strong> Tabboush is the name of a virtual pet companion to assist autistic children coping with every day<\/g> tasks.<\/p>\n

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Mentors<\/strong>: <\/b>Bassem Dghaidi (SE Factory, Technical Director, Lebanon), Muneeza Patel (MIT, McKinsey, UAE) and Dani Arnaout (CTO at Saily, Lebanon)<\/p>\n

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Students:<\/b>\u00a0 Randa ElBehery (Cairo University, Egypt), Hera Arif (Abu Dhabi University, UAE) Anas Einea (University of Sharjah, UAE), Nouf Alsaedi (UAE University, UAE), Alaa Maarouf (Lebanese American University, Lebanon) and Noura Ismail Hussain (Khalifa University, UAE)<\/p>\n

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Areni<\/g>\u00a0 \u0623\u0631\u0646\u064a\u00a0 (Show Me)\"\"<\/a>
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Description:<\/strong> Connecting resettled youth refugees with local volunteer teachers<\/p>\n

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Mentors<\/strong>:<\/b> Samr<\/g> Samir Ali (Teaching and Research Assistant, Abu Dhabi University, UAE), Erin Hoffman (PhD<\/g>, University of Washington, USA) and Mike Clarke (Director, HiL, Lebanon)
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Students: <\/b>Mariam Garba (University Of Ilorin, Nigeria), Zach Sorenson (Stanford University, USA), Shaikha Aldoukhi (Khalifa University, UAE) and Sana Khiari (INSAT, Tunisia)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Transparent \u0645\u0643\u0634\u0648\u0641\"\"<\/a>
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Prensentation<\/g> Order: 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Description:<\/strong>\u00a0A platform to encourage people to donate more confidently by improving the financial integrity of charities, NGOs<\/g> and other governmental organizations through the use of block-chain’s<\/g> innately transparent technology, giving donors the ability to track the effects of their donations.<\/p>\n

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Mentors<\/strong>: <\/b>Stephen Lang (Cornell Tech, UX Designer, USA) and Ken Leland (VYDIA, CTO, USA)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Students: <\/b>Ahmad Ilaiwi (Najah Palestine),\u00a0Amaan Kulshrestha (Birla Institute of Technology, India),\u00a0Anas Aloweiwi (University of Jordan), Manaf Alanaze (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia),\u00a0Param Singh (National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, India) and\u00a0Azzabi Najwa (University Hassan 1st, Morocco)<\/p>\n

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Musaeada\u00a0 \u0645\u0633\u0627\u0639\u062f\u0629<\/span>\u00a0 <\/strong>(Helping)\"\"<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Description:<\/strong> SMS-based personal crisis broadcaster<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mentor<\/strong>: <\/b>Aidan Feldman (Engineer at 18F)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Students:<\/b>\u00a0 Shirley Mao (University of Waterloo, Canada) Rashiq Zahid (Technical University Berlin, Germany), Samridha Shrestha (NYUAD, UAE) Jaisal Friedman, (NYUAD, UAE), Naomi Pentrel (University of Oxford, UK) and Kunal Malhotra (BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus)
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Feel Better\u00a0 <\/g>\"\"<\/a>\u0627\u0634\u0639\u0631<\/g> \u0628\u062a\u062d\u0633\u0646<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Description: <\/strong>An Arabic-speaking virtual assistant that engages with the user and uses machine learning to assess their mental health and happiness levels.
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Students: <\/b>Marisa Chow (Princeton University, USA), Walid Abismail (Ecole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure d\u2019informatique, ESI ex INI, Algeria), Muhammad Owais (University of Sharjah, UAE), Brook Hopkins (NYUAD, UAE) and Einea Omar (University of Sharjah, UAE)<\/p>\n

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