{"id":1032,"date":"2025-11-22T18:23:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T16:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2026-01-22T13:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:20:22","slug":"universities-challenge-2025-2nd-place-food-security-and-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/blog\/2025\/11\/22\/universities-challenge-2025-2nd-place-food-security-and-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Universities Challenge 2025 2nd Place (Food Security and Sustainability)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><!-- Header image --><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;margin-bottom: 20px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/sbe2\/2025\/uni-challenges.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%;border: 4px solid #d99f53\" src=\"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/sbe2\/2025\/uni-challenges.jpg\" alt=\"Universities Challenge 2025 - SBME Cairo University\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:1.2em;line-height:1.7\">\nThe <strong>Department of Systems and Biomedical Engineering (SBME)<\/strong> at Cairo University proudly celebrates the remarkable achievement of its talented students from the <strong>Class of 2027<\/strong>, who earned <strong style=\"color: #d99f53\">Second Place<\/strong> at the <strong>Universities Challenge 2025<\/strong> in the UAE.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s competition focused on <strong>\u201cFood Security in Achieving Community Sustainability.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Team Members:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Raghad Abdelhameed<br \/>\n&#8211; Abdelrahman Khalaf<br \/>\n&#8211; Zeyad Ashraf<br \/>\n&#8211; Salma Ali<br \/>\n&#8211; Ekram Ahmed<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supervisor:<\/strong> Dr. Aliaa Rehan Youssef<\/p>\n<p>Competing among <strong>25+ teams from 18 universities worldwide<\/strong>, our team impressed the jury with their innovative project <strong style=\"color: #1b2656\">NebtRa<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NebtRa in Brief:<\/strong><br \/>\nA digital agri-platform that leverages <strong>NASA satellite data<\/strong> to provide farmers with intelligent crop recommendations, AI-powered irrigation guidance, and plant-health diagnostics\u2014supporting sustainable agriculture and smarter resource use.<\/p>\n<p>Special appreciation goes to <strong>Dr. Rehab Hegab<\/strong> (Desert Research Center) and <strong>Dr. Abdelhameed Abdelhady<\/strong> (FAO) for their invaluable mentorship and support.<\/p>\n<p>Warmest congratulations to our students on their inspiring milestone on their path toward graduation in <strong>2027<\/strong>!\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Systems and Biomedical Engineering (SBME) at Cairo University proudly celebrates the remarkable achievement of its talented students from the Class of 2027, who earned Second Place at the Universities Challenge 2025 in the UAE. This year\u2019s competition focused on \u201cFood Security in Achieving Community Sustainability.\u201d Team Members: &#8211; Raghad Abdelhameed &#8211; Abdelrahman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-generalnews","category-slider","category-studentnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1474,"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}