It's not every day that a university bestows its highest honor on a female student, but that's exactly what happened at Qatar's Hamad Bin Khalifa University.
Boshra Rasti Galati, a 22-year-old engineering student, received the Hamad Bin Khalifa University Innovation Center's highest honorthe Hamad Bin Khalifa University Innovation Awardafter graduating from the university's second cycle of its Education City Innovative Entrepreneurship Program, the Gulf Times reports.
The program, in its second year, is meant to help students develop entrepreneurial skills, and Galati was one of 15 students who took part in capacity-building workshops designed to boost their entrepreneurial skills, per a university press release.
Each team was given a share in the ECIEP's Entrepreneurship Program fund, which is allocated to the five most promising business plans.
Galati's plan was for her company, Al Mana, to create a system that allows students to order food online, then pick it up and deliver it to their doorsteps, per the press release.
"I wanted to create a system that allows students to order food online and pick it up and deliver it to their doorsteps," she says.
"I am very excited because this is the first time in the
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