A Syrian youth wins a million dollars in the “One Million Arab Coders” initiative in the UAE

Today, Wednesday, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Dubai Future Foundation, honored the programmers and trainers who won the “One Million Arab Coders” initiative challenge.

At the Museum of the Future in Dubai, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed honored the programmers and trainers who won the “One Million Arab Coders” initiative challenge, with a total prize value of $1,350,000, during the closing ceremony of the initiative.

Hamdan bin Mohammed said on this occasion: “We congratulate the Syrian youth, Mahmoud Shahoud, for winning the million dollar prize for the “Habit 360” project, a well-deserved victory for an Arab innovator of whom we are proud of and his achievement. It will contribute to achieving a qualitative leap in their societies,” noting that “the One Million Arab Coders Initiative provided the opportunity for one million Arabs to enter the digital world, and fulfilled the dreams of tens of thousands of Arab programmers around the world, and its outcomes and successes will be a pillar of many upcoming Arab achievements in the world of technology and programming.” .

He continued, “The One Million Arab Coders Initiative opened the way for Arab youth towards endless horizons of innovation and creativity in the field of advanced technology to put the Arab world on the map of excellence and achievement.”

حمدان بن محمد: نبارك للشاب السوري محمود شحود فوزه بجائزة المليون دولار عن مشروع "Habit 360" فوز مستحق لمبدع عربي نفتخر به وبإنجازه ونهنّئ جميع الفائزين والمشاركين في المبادرة الذين نجحوا في توظيف لغة العصر المعرفية في تطوير مشاريع رائدة ستسهم في تحقيق نقلة نوعية في مجتمعاتهم. pic.twitter.com/o4iQ56gGJq

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And the newspaper “Emirates Today” indicated that the Syrian software engineer, Mahmoud Shahoud, aged 33, succeeded in winning the title of the best Arab programmer and the one million dollar prize to challenge the One Million Arab Coders initiative for the “Habit 360” project, which enables people to build new habits in their lives and follow their achievements. And motivate their feelings, and the application provided its services to more than 200,000 users around the world, and the top five entrepreneurs in the “One Million Arab Coders” initiative challenge received prizes of $50,000 each.