Riyadh, August 3, 2024, The top ten students who won gold medals at the National Olympiad for Programming and Artificial Intelligence (ATHKA) final were chosen to partake in the Oxford Scholars Programme (OSP) at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. The Olympiad was arranged by the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and the King Abdulaziz and His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity (Mawhiba).
Aged 14-18 and hailing from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, these students will join peers from across the globe in the OSP training. The opportunity will enable them to obtain a certificate accredited by the British Accreditation Council (BAC) and potentially secure an academic recommendation for admission to the esteemed Oxford University.
The OSP is just one of the rewards provided by SDAIA and its partners to the 10 gold medalists, who were selected from a pool of 298 finalists out of 260,000 Saudi middle and high school students who applied for the ATHKA Olympiad, sponsored by the Saudi Technology and Security Comprehensive Control Company (Tahakom).
The initiative is part of SDAIA's commitment to nurturing and fostering the cognitive and practical abilities of Saudi youth in data and AI. The objective is to cultivate a generation of Saudis capable of spearheading a national economy driven by data and AI, thereby further bolstering the Kingdom's standing in this state-of-the-art technological field and aligning with the goals of Saudi Vision 2030.