Over the past two months, Al Bataeh Club’s basketball team player, Ali Hamid Al Logani Al Ali, has occupied the attention of international media outlets, after he won six awards at innovation exhibitions around the world, including three gold medals for ambitious projects he presented at the Silicon Valley Festival in California and the Indonesian Inventors’ Day in Bali.
The 13-year-old has 15 inventions registered in the country as intellectual property, since his talent was revealed in 2020, after the “Corona crisis” and the “distance learning” period gave him the opportunity to enter the stage of scientific innovation, and he won his first awards when he was nine years old, represented by the “smart wheelchair” for people of determination, which is controlled by a smart glove.
Al Ali stressed that the family’s encouragement and the unlimited support provided by the state to scientific innovation, for example, were the incentive to achieve accomplishments alongside adopting sports as a healthy lifestyle, by practicing athletics and swimming before switching to basketball with Al Bataeh Club two years ago.
He told Al-Emarat Al-Youm: “The Corona period provided the opportunity to present my first scientific innovations in a first step that paved the way for me to present more innovations, the ability to represent the country in international festivals, and win international awards.”
Al Ali explained: “My family’s support has given me the ability to acquire several skills that have facilitated my mission of combining academic excellence and sports practice. It has enabled me to work as a team, organize time, lead and communicate, research and plan, and be able to solve problems.”
He added: “I participated in many local, Arab and international events, and represented many national entities and institutions in international festivals, during which I succeeded in winning more than 69 prestigious awards.”
“Over the past two months, I have been able to win six different awards, starting with my crowning on July 27 with the gold medal at the Silicon Valley Science and Technology Festival for the Robotic Doctor project, representing the Quarter Century Science and Technology Foundation in Sharjah, and a special award from the United Inventors Association, in addition to winning four awards at the Indonesia Inventors Festival, representing the Emirates Science Club in Dubai, including two gold medals and two special awards: the first for the Sustainable Station Project (a gold medal and a special award presented by the scientific delegation in Hong Kong), and the second for the Ship Protection and Navigation System Project (a gold medal and a special award from the Polish scientific delegation),” he continued.
Al Ali concluded: “I have great ambitions to develop my projects in a way that serves the Emirati community and humanity as a whole, in addition to continuing to excel in sports and representing the basketball team in international forums.”
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