AMMAN – The ‘Entro
for Kids’ contest has concluded its third edition in 2022; the contest that was
organized by the Entro Gate Company with
support and partnership of many entities, including Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
Knowledge Forum (TAG-KF).

The Forum contributed to the
assessment and the evaluation of the competing projects, and awarded prizes,
including five (TAGITOP) laptops to the winning teams to help them develop
their projects.

 The contest which
 included the participation of 12-17 years old students from public and
private schools, aims to provide the youth with entrepreneurial skills and
innovation tools at an early age and to achieve the goals of creating a generation
that embraces entrepreneurship and creativity instead of a job-based path in
the future.

As participants of schools from
Egypt, Saudi Arabia as well as Jordan where the top ten winning teams, they
will have the opportunity to develop their projects within the small
Entrepreneur Incubator. 

During the contest, ten
entrepreneurial projects were selected out of the 25 participating teams that
reached the final stage. The participating teams competed to find solutions to
different problems in education, health, culture and arts, tourism,
transportation, environment and green technology sectors.

The contest has been supported by
the Al Hussein Fund for Excellence (Edraak) in partnership with the Ministry of
Education, Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship, TechWorks - one of
the Crown Prince Foundation’s initiatives, AlHussein Technical University, the
Egypt-based Eduminds Consulting company. That is in addition to partners
including Interact Labs, Al Shalati Bookstores, Mosaic and Wajeez companies.

The ‘Entro for Kids’
program was launched by the Entro Gate Company in 2018 with the support of
TAG-KF. It is the first-of-its-kind program that targets students by giving
them training and entrepreneurial skills for innovation and creativity.