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UAE SWAT Challenge Begins

The 3rd edition of SWAT Challenge is expected to witness fierce competition among 41 teams from 24 countries, reports Asian Lite News

The much-awaited UAE SWAT Challenge 2022, organised by Dubai Police, got underway Sunday, with forty-one highly-trained teams from 24 countries are testing their tactical and weapon skills at Al Rowaiyah Training City in Dubai.

The 3rd edition of SWAT Challenge is expected to witness fierce competition among 41 teams.

UAE SWAT Challenge Begins

A team from Chechan has won the first competition, while the Abu Dhabi Police team secured second, and Sharjah Police came third among participating SWAT teams after securing the highest points against other units on the first day of the five-day special operations competition.

Attending the global tactical event along with senior officials, Major General Abdullah Ali Al Ghaithi, Director of Organisations Protective Security and Emergency, crowned the winning teams and congratulated them on their outstanding performance.

UAE SWAT Challenge Begins

Colonel Obaid Mubarak Al Ketbi, the General Coordinator of SWAT Challenge, said: “The five-day competition aims to encourage benchmarking and sharing of the best practices focusing on techniques, tactical skills, mental focus and physical endurance when dealing with high-risk incidents and rescue missions.”

UAE SWAT Challenge Begins

“Teams participating in the challenge are highly professional in the tactical field,” said Colonel Al Ketbe.

This year’s edition witnesses the participation of 10 teams from the UAE, including two teams each from Dubai and Abu Dhabi, along with squads from Sharjah, Ras Al Khaimah and Ajman.

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Abu Dhabi Motors honours Middle East winner in Young Designer competition

Abu Dhabi Motors honours Middle East winner in Young Designer competition

The competition aimed to encourage creativity and offer hope and inspiration for children in lockdown during the spring of 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic…reports Asian Lite News

Harini Ponna, aged 10, has been crowned Middle East Regional winner in the Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Young Designer competition.

RRMC x Harini Ponna

“We are delighted to announce that Harini is the winner for the Middle East in the Rolls-Royce Young Designer Competition. She showed remarkable imagination through her design. We congratulate Harini on her amazing achievement, and every Young Designer who entered the competition for their inventiveness, hard work and creativity.”

CESAR HABIB, REGIONAL DIRECTOR MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA, ROLLS ROYCE MOTOR CARS:“We are very proud to present this prize to Harini, who shows artistic promise at such a young age. Her work showed creativity and innovation, and captured the spirit of the competition.”

Remy Hussein, Customer Relationship Manager, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Abu Dhabi

Launched in April 2020, the competition was devised to provide a creative outlet for children aged 16 and under confined by Covid-19 lockdown restrictions. An instant success, it attracted more than 5,000 entries from over 80 countries.

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Harini’s winning design was inspired by fan seashell. Her visionary motor car is able to transform itself to travel across land and sea. According to her parents, she completed her design at the first attempt, taking 10 days to bring her unique vision to life.

Accompanied by her parents, Harini was chauffeur-driven in a Rolls-Royce Ghost to Abu Dhabi Motors, the authorised dealer for Rolls-Royce Motor Cars in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain. There, César Habib handed over a hand-signed certificate by Torsten Müller-Ötvös, Chief Executive Officer, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, as an appreciation of her achievement.

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Indian origin teenager wins top US science competition

Akilan’s winning entry was the computer program that can calculate “highly divisible numbers” that are called antiprime numbers and are over 1,000 digits long, SfS said…reports Asian Lite News.

Indian-origin Akilan Sankaran has won the top prize in the nation’s leading science competition with a computer programme using “antiprime numbers” that can accelerate everyday processes.

While the 14-year-old won the $25,000 prize in the Broadcom Masters science and engineering competition on Thursday, three of the four winners of the next level prizes of $10,000 were also of Indian-origin, as were 15 of the 30 finalists from around the country.

Maya Ajmera, the president of the Society for Science (SfS), which runs the competition with Broadcom Foundation, said: “The young people we are celebrating today are working to solve the world’s most intractable problems. The Broadcom Masters finalists serve as an inspiration to us all, and I know they will all go on to find immense success on their STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) journey.”

Akilan’s winning entry was the computer program that can calculate “highly divisible numbers” that are called antiprime numbers and are over 1,000 digits long, SfS said.

“He created a new class of functions the smooth class to measure a number’s divisibility” and his programme has the potential capacity to speed up and optimize the performance of software and apps,” it said.

“By analysing and developing ‘smooth highly divisible numbers’, Akilan’s goal was to make calculations run more quickly, in turn accelerating countless everyday processes and tasks,” it added.

Sankaran “hopes to become an astrophysicist so that he can merge three of his favourite topics: physics, mathematics and space science”, according to the SfS.

Camellia Sharma, 14, built a 3D-printed aerial drone/boat that can fly to a spot, land on the water and take underwater photos while its software can then count the fish living there, winning a $10,000 award.

Another winner of a similar award, Prisha Shroff, 14, developed an artificial intelligence-based wildfire prevention system that uses satellite and meteorological data to identify fire-prone locations and deploy drones there.

For her study of the many social factors that affect the health of communities, Ryka C. Chopra, 13, geocoded the locations of fast-food restaurants to see if they are built near populations of obese people, perhaps contributing to the obesity cycle, winning another $10,000 award.

More than 1,800 middle school students from across the US entered the Broadcom Masters competition.

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