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Ramallah News | Jihad Al-Wahidi, a student at the UNRWA Salah al-Din Preparatory School in the Gaza Strip, won fourth place in the International Robotics Competition.
The student achieved this victory after inventing the idea of an electronic application project to ensure the extent to which people adhere to the rules of physical distancing and wearing masks in light of the “Corona” pandemic.
Al-Wahidi is a student with special needs, as he was born with a rare disability in the brain, the symptoms of which are motor disability, difficulty and delay in speech and pronunciation, but this did not prevent him from pursuing his dream.
And the Jihad project, which is a small robot in the form of a brooch (pin) with an “Arduino Nano” board installed inside, lights up in red if the person is standing near another person at a distance of less than a meter, and is not wearing a mask.
Also, this brooch is designed to be connected via wireless internet “Wi-Fi” to the relevant authorities, and they can monitor the extent of people’s commitment to physical distancing, and “teachers can also use this application in schools to reduce cases of Covid-19 infection,” according to what he said. requester.
Jihad’s talent began to appear in the field of technology and software, at an early age, according to his mother, who said that “one day, Jihad’s father’s mobile phone broke down. Jihad kept messing with the programs for two hours until he was able to fix it.”
Regarding his disability, his mother says, "I was surprised when Jihad was born. I was not able to deal with his disability, as it is unfamiliar to me, so I was very careful when dealing with him, especially when he was a young child."
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