Press release
Asmaa Petro Team Wins FLL Egypt Championship
Date published: 26 April 2017
Asmaa Petro Team— from the Suez Advanced Technical School— won FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Egypt's
Championship, organized by the Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC), on April 14, 21 and
22, at TIEC premises, in Smart Village, under the auspices of the Ministry of Communications and Information
Technology (MCIT) and the Ministry of Education.
The Team will qualify to represent Egypt in the final competition that will be held in the United States of America,
where teams from several countries compete for valuable prizes and scholarships offered by the largest international
scientific institutions.
120 teams from public, private and international schools participated in FLL Egypt’s Championship. TIEC supported
the participation of 29 public schools geographically distributed over 17 governorates across the country.
TIEC paid registration fees of
schools in the competition,
provided playground for training
and offered robot kits for the
completion of tasks and training.
TIEC also organized a training
camp for teachers and specialists,
covering concepts and basics of
innovation, fundamentals and
techniques of robots,
requirements and stages of
Egypt's Championship.
FLL is an international competition for school students aged 9-16 years old, organized by the First Lego League of
the United States of America for innovation and excellence in science, technology and engineering. Every year,
teams of up to 10 students build, program and compete with a robot to complete as many tasks as possible, while also
learning about a modern problem in science and engineering and developing solutions for it.
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position as a leading global outsourcing location by attracting foreign direct investment to the industry and
maximizing the exports of IT services and applications.
Located in the heart of the modern business environment at Smart Village, the six hundred acre business park
on the outskirts of Cairo, ITIDA is a self-sustainable entity that drives the IT industry in Egypt and raises
awareness among the Egyptian people of the benefits and use of ICT to advance socio-economic welfare of the
whole community.