DOHA, Qatar, June 29 /PRNewswire/ --
- Young Innovator Awarded 300,000 $ in Competition Final
Lebanese contestant Bassam Jalgha was yesterday evening declared winner of the first series of Stars of Science, a new Pan-Arab innovation contest initiated by the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development.
At the end of a heated grand finale held at the Aspire Sports Academy in Doha and televised live across the Arab world, viewers awarded 62% of the votes to the creator of Dozan, an automatic tuner for stringed instruments, against 38% for Mohammed Orsod and his Orsod project, a cooking oil tester.