In Madad Lab II After months of training and preparing, participants have finally presented their projects.

The participants presented their projects for the jury. Members of the jury are a group of foreign companies and institutes, EU representative, GIZ, TeraTarget, and government officials.

Ten teams were participating in the program. Competing teams had different project ideas and wanted to achieve the first place in the program.  The projects had many different themes, and all were making a great impact on the communities in their unique way

The projects were specializing in renewable energy and solar panels, also health care services, public services, and volunteering services. Each team gave a narrowed-detailed presentation about their projects for eight minutes and then. After presenting, they spend five minutes answering questions from the jury.

The board of jury started their process of filtering and ranking the projects of the teams. The number of the juries was eight experts, local ones and international ones.

The ranking of the winning teams was from the seventh to the first. They were chosen depending on amount of impact the project will have on the people’s life, environment, and society generally.

The team that took the first place in the competition had a project for helping refugees with their education. The first-place winners until the seventh-place winners, will all have to start working on their projects. They’ll receive an amount of financial support determined by the need of the project. Along with the financial support they will receive mentoring to establish their project.

The jury will choose the winners depending on how much impact the team members will achieve through the project. The jury will select winning participants to attend the upcoming events of the program.

Because of the attendance of local and international companies and institutes in the presentation date, the participants received more chances. The companies have promised to support the projects, financial and money wise.

The technical help in the workshops of TeraTarget made this stage of the program possible. TeraTarget is until now giving mentoring to the participants.

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TeraTarget starts robotics workshops in Iraq, as the Madad Lab II workshops continue, participants are learning exciting topics. These topics include Robotics and Physical Computing. As usual, the Madad Lab II workshops and TeraTarget’s technical help are providing useful skills to the participants.

After this week’s robotics workshops in Iraq, the participants will be able to do plenty of critical and fundamental technological innovations. The efficiency of these workshops is that they are practical more than theoretical. Participants are creating and coding basic robotic programs in the workshops, and this creates an interactive experience for them.

The robotics workshops are action-driven ones. Participants learn how to make LED lights, sensors, joysticks, push buttons and program coding. They have created their own small functional robotic parts. Furthermore, created and coded robots for the first time in the robotics workshops, even though they had no background knowledge.

The participants learned how to do the basics of coding using the Arduino program in this week’s robotics workshops. The program is an excellent choice for working on both hardware and software programming at the same time. Moreover, participants learned about motors and how robots and LED lights work. They finished creating LED boards with controllable lighting systems. Furthermore, the partakers created movable motors, controlled through the Arduino program. Notably, the robots are basic, but they are a fundamental start in the world of robotics.

The world’s stepping towards a path of bringing robots to take on specific tasks in our life. Therefore, these new skills and knowledge about robotics and computing are crucial to know and master. Participants at Madad Lab now have the necessary abilities to improve themselves and compete with the fast-growing world of robotics.

While the participants develop their projects, they’ll be able to include a robotic aspect to it. This opportunity is unique, and it is not a common thing in the region. The funding of the Qudra program and the technical partnership with TeraTarget are achieving successes. TeraTarget has provided and helped the workshops with top IT field expert lecturers to mentor the participants toward more success.

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