WANA (Nov 09) – Iran’s student teams returned home with remarkable achievements from the 2024 World Science and Invention Competition held in Indonesia. This competition, which took place from November 5 to 10, brought together 1,098 teams from 24 countries, and Iran shone by winning five gold medals and two special prizes.

 

Mehdi Rashidi Jahan, the head of Iran’s scientific teams, stated that the competition included eight scientific fields, such as engineering, chemistry and nanotechnology, biotechnology, environmental science, energy, physics and astronomy, artificial intelligence, and social sciences. Iran participated with three in-person teams and two online teams, securing five gold medals and two special prizes.

 

Rashidi Jahan noted that the event was held both in-person and online, with teams from Indonesia, Malaysia, Romania, the Czech Republic, Russia, Turkmenistan, Thailand, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, India, Hong Kong, China, and others also competing.

 

In the individual honors category, the team comprising Ilya Majidzadeh and Parsa Karimi won a gold medal and a special prize from the Malaysian Invention and Innovation Organization. Additionally, Amirabbas Kavousi Amin and Artin Salari’s engineering team, along with Nima Sohrabi in artificial intelligence, won gold medals and a special prize from Romania.

 

Other teams from the Vaaleh group, including Artin Radmatin, Niki Ebtahi, Baran Bahman, Sarina Nosrati, and Mohammad Hossein Ezati in environmental science, and the team of Baran Derakhshandeh Daryasari, Paniz Khalajifar, Golshid Shirvani, and Yasaman Saeidi in biotechnology, contributed two more gold medals for Iran in this prestigious event.