Pakistani students secure top position in Britain’s engineering contest

GIKI Team Infinity wins Concept Class LTS for virtual software they created, by defeating students from 34 countries

ISLAMABAD:

The students from the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology bagged first position in the “Formula Student” engineering competition held in the United Kingdom.

The Formula Student is Europe’s most established educational engineering competition. Backed by industry and high-profile engineers, the competition aims at developing enterprising and innovative young engineers and encouraging more young people to take up a career in engineering.

Formula GIK Team Infinity won Concept Class LTS (Lap Time Simulation) of the prestigious IMechE Formula Student 2022 held in the United Kingdom. pic.twitter.com/0Hz94wxldR

— GIKI (@OfficialGIKI) July 11, 2022

The GIKI Team Infinity won Concept Class LTS (Lap Time Simulation) for the virtual software they created, by defeating students from 34 countries.

Ashir Junaid, the team leader for Formula GIK, told the media that their 24-member society developed the software within two months.

“We are proud of making Pakistan famous all over the world,” Junaid said.

Also read: Pakistani students win top award at US science fair

In May, two students of the Pak-Turk Maarif International Schools and Colleges won a top award at an international science event in the US.

Talia Kulsoom and Umm-e-Kulsoom, 12th-grade students at the Gulshan-e-Iqbal Girls’ Campus in Karachi, took the first position in the Physical Science category at the 2022 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) held in Atlanta, the US, the school announced in a statement.

Their project, completed under the supervision of their teacher Hira Bashir, focused on the extraction of “vegan leather” from Cedrus deodara, a cedar tree species native to the Himalayas, according to the statement.

Talia Kulsoom and Umm-e-Kulsoom, 12th-grade students at the Gulshan-e-Iqbal Girls’ Campus in Karachi. PHOTO: The Maarif Foundation

(With additional input from Anadolu Agency)