SINGAPORE: Palestinian student Razan Shawar has traveled for 24 hours to showcase her team’s AI-powered invention at the World Robot Olympiad in Singapore, telling AFP innovation — not war — should be why people hear about her country.
The 15-year-old high school student from Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank said she dreams of making “something big, so the world can know that the one who did this is Palestinian.”
Together with the rest of the Palestinian delegation, she traveled from the West Bank via Jordan and Dubai to attend the three-day global robotics tournament in Singapore, which ended on Friday.
More than 1,500 competitors from over 90 countries and territories gathered in the Southeast Asian city for the event, which aims to harness the innovative spirit of the world’s youth to address pressing challenges.
Malaysia stamped its class in the tournament, winning a third of the contested medals in various categories, according to an AFP tally.
