Participating in a competition that included twenty projects introduced by over 16 countries, including Canada, Italy, Romania, Georgia, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, Jordan, Egypt and Turkey, the pioneering project of the Faculty of Information Technology and Computer Science at Yarmouk University entitled “Using Virtual Reality to develop a computerized educational curriculum for pre-school children with special needs” won the first place for being the best promising applied pilot project in the International Academic Cultural Forum (ICAMES'22) for Engineering students, which was held in Istanbul between 10-16/05/2022. The student Sohaib Al-Abed represented the project team in this international competition, noting that the project team included, besides Sohaib, the student Maysam Al-Akash, and that the team was supervised by Dr. Rami Malkawi and Dr. Ahmed Saifan.

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