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Amta'ah, the first Arab / Jordanian team to win the international Hult Prize competition.
19 Mar 2021

A pioneering idea launched by students from the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Science and Technology, which quickly turned into a start-up company in less than one year, the mechanism of its work is by networking between travelers and people who want to send personal items to the same destination, so that the traveler can rent his additional luggage space and carry Items for a fee, too, save on senders the shipping cost of up to 50% ؜ and without paying any additional fees.

Anas Hayajneh, Abdulrahman Sadr, Hajar Al-Khaddour and Omar Nofal, the owners of the idea and project, began to develop the project during their competition in the global Hult Prize competition - the largest business accelerator for entrepreneurship and emerging companies in the world for university students, which brings together more than 250 thousand students and 3 thousand universities annually to compete On a material investment of up to one million US dollars - after a long career that extended for more than a year and a half, the team went through several stages, including local and regional, the most prominent of which was winning first place in Rigons (Toronto - Canada), in which it competed with the most powerful and famous universities in the world, and qualified it For the business accelerator that gathered 35 final teams from all over the world to compete for the final 10 final seats to win a material investment of 100 thousand US dollars for each start-up company, which Amta'ah ​(from the University of Science and Technology) had the share of winning one of these seats, representing Arabs, Jordan, and Obtaining investment and financial support to be the first Arab team to achieve this achievement.

Amta'ah had many participations in local and international forums and competitions, such as participation in the First National Forum for Young Entrepreneurs and Innovators, organized by the Ministry of Youth, and he always had the first ranks, raising the flag of Jordan and flaunting it.

The team is now in the stage of developing its mobile application and expanding it outside Jordan to make it easier for users to serve them and make it available to the largest possible segment in the Arab world.​
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