19 Nepali students participate in Huawei’s global flagship Seeds for the Future program

KATHMANDU, Dec 22: Huawei concluded this year’s Seeds for the Future – its global flagship CSR program for undergraduate level students in Nepal at an event in Kathmandu on Monday.

A total of 19 students from 8 universities and 13 educational institutions coming from 9 different ICT backgrounds participated in the program which was held for the first time in Nepal.

Having completed all requirements of the program, the students were awarded a certificate of completion by Devendra Paudel, Minister for Education, Science and Technology.

Huawei received 136 applications from all over Nepal on its application portal seedsnepal.com which was open to all undergraduate students between Oct 6 and Nov 7. After a competitive selection process, the Seeds for the Future Selection Committee composed of distinguished ICT professors selected 19 undergraduate students, including 4 from outside the Kathmandu valley, who took part in the 8-day online training with international peers, participated in the Tech4good project, visited a Huawei-built 4G base station in Ghandruk and attended classes from industry experts from DishHome and Ncell.

The students will also get a chance to participate in the Tech4Good global competition where they can pitch their idea on leveraging technology to solve social and/or environmental problems and win prizes up to 20000 USD.

Seeds for the Future was first launched in 2008 in Thailand. Since then over 9,000 students from 130 countries and regions have participated in the program.