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This local contest available for all students of Arab American University provides the opportunity to raise awareness in the local community of the importance of entrepreneurship and supporting the creative projects, as the participated teams competed to develop pioneering ideas for specialized smart phone applications in the medical and health sector.

Each participant team combines of at least two people and a maximum of four people, and winners will be rewarded cash prizes.

The celebration was under the auspices of the President of the State of Palestine, His Excellency President Mahmoud Abbas "Abu Mazen" and attended by Dr. Moayad Abu Saa- the VP for Academic Affairs representing Prof. Ali Zeidan Abu Zuhri- the University President, Prof. Mohammad Asia- the VP for the Medical Schools Affairs, General Akram Rjoub- the Governor of Jenin, representatives and leaders from the security services of Jenin, members of the Academic and Administrative staff, representatives of official and private organizations and a great number of parents and family of graduates.

Researcher Ramzi Assaf built a system that can predict the loans’ default in Bank of Palestine Ltd, as he collected many algorithms of supervised machine learning using data to train the program. The research concluded some great results that will benefit Bank of Palestine as they will predict if any loan request will not be fulfilled in the future.

The graduation ceremony was attended by Prof. Ali Zeidan Abu Zuhri- the University President, General Yousef Dakhlallah- the Chairman of the Organization and Administration Body, Brig. Gen. Stephen Cartwright from the British Team Support and Brig. Gen. Stephen Graham from the Canadian Support Team, and the 25 students who are graduating from this program who work in the security services.

The ceremony started with the Palestinian anthem, then the British anthem and then the Canadian anthem and the ceremony was moderated by Nada Ennab.