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Minister of Youth and Sports of Iraq, H E Adnan Dargal, with participants from Qatar during the honouring ceremony.

Doha: The Ministry of Sports and Youth, represented by Qatar Scientific Club, participated in the Arab Forum for Talents and Innovations held in Iraq from January 27 to February 1, 2022 as part of the events in Baghdad, the capital of Arab youth.

The event was held in coordination with the Technical Secretariat of the Council of Arab Youth and Sports Ministers, where the Qatari delegation was represented by Fatima Al Muhannadi as head of the delegation.

Both the member of the scientific club inventor Mohamed Ahmed Al Qasabi and member of the club inventor Sara Amir Al Baker participated. Al Qasabi participated by inventing the system of analysis of the performance of infiltration O Pass, a system that helps referees in football to detect violations of infiltration accurately using UWB marks on the ball and players to track their positions accurately during the game and in the event of any infiltration case is directly sent automatic notice to the referees hour.

The system also analyses the performance of players during the game and sends alerts to coaches about the possibility of any injury to any player, in addition to analysing the data of players to prevent injuries, and his innovation received many awards and centres including receiving third place as the best Arab inventor in the program Stars of Science in its thirteenth edition, as well as received first place in the category of startups within the idea award organized by QDB 2020.

He won the gold medal at the 11th International Inventions Exhibition in the Middle East in 2019, as well as fifth place in the 2021 Individual Innovation Competition at the Challenge and Innovation Forum.

Sarah Al Baker shared her creation of a child protection device from choking inside the car through a thermal sensor that monitors any movement inside the car after the engine is turned off so that it sends an alert at the same time, the driver avoids suffocation automatically by opening windows and giving an audio alarm.

Her innovation won the bronze medal at the 10th International Invention Fair in the Middle East, Sarah Al Baker is a student at Qatar University who specialises in architecture, holds the Gold Award in the preparatory stage of scientific excellence and the Platinum Award for High School, and also won first place in the National Scientific Research Competition in Qatar, and represented Qatar at the Intel International Science and Engineering Exhibition in the United States of American.

During the forum, Fatima Al Muhannadi delivered a speech in which she expressed Qatars thanks to the Iraqi Ministry of Youth and Sports and to the organising committees of the Arab Forum for Talent and Innovations for the hospitality in reception and good organisation and for having a real and sincere will seeking to make our Arab environments attractive and creating useful talents.

Fatima said: This important forum reflects the extent of interest in young Arab talents and how to create talent and build and develop to be an active and useful element in society, It meets the needs of our Arab societies to such meetings, which contribute to creating a fertile environment to support and root talent to be the source of the supply of active Arab cards and capabilities to countries.

She said: Our participation in this forum comes through a delegation that includes a model that we are proud of the young Qatari talents that have emerged in the field of innovation and excellence, and found the attention and care required thanks to a system based on nurturing talent and investing the best investment to be a living example of how keen we are to take care of talent from being a seed to become a good tree that enjoys its shadow. It reaps the benefits of society as a whole.

Qatari delegation participating in the forum was honoured with a shield and a certificate of participation in the forum in a ceremony attended by Minister of Youth and Sports of Iraq, H E Adnan Dargal; Director General of coordination and follow-up department at the Iraqi Ministry of Youth and Sports, Dr. Akram Naeem Atwan and Director General of Scientific Care at the Ministry, Dr. Ahmed Saad Aliwi.

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Qatari delegation participates in Arab Forum for Talents and Innovations in Iraq - The Peninsula