Madiq High Schools wins annual 'Inwi Challenge' prize

Ibn Battuta High School in Madiq won the first prize in the second edition of the national competition “Inwi Challenge,”organized by the Ministry of National Education and the “Inwi” telecom company.

The prize ceremony was organized, on Friday, at the Center for National Training and Forums in Rabat, in the presence of Chakib Benmoussa, Minister of National Education and Ezzedine Al-Muntasir Billah, CEO and General Manager of Inwi.

“The Inwi Challenge program has contributed to making students creative in the virtual world,” said Khaled El-Rekraki, professor of physics at Ibn Battuta Preparatory High School in Al-Madiq.

In a statement to Hespress AR, Rekraki indicated that the idea of ​​the initiative is to provide virtual lessons through the Minecraft game program, which made the students master programming and improve their level of learning.

Chakib Benmoussa said, in a speech before students representing the regional academies of Morocco, that “the Inwi Challenge program makes play a way to improve the quality of education and enable students to acquire basic learning,” noting that “this shows that technology should not be considered only as a goal in itself, Rather, it is a means to reach the goals of improving the quality of education, which are achieved through several means, including the creation of pedagogical curricula using digital technology.”

The minister stated that the third edition, which will be organized next year, should include the largest possible number of students, and stressed that “initiatives such as these have a very important impact on the education system, and can be considered an experiment that deserves to be generalized to all educational institutions, especially at the primary level in which students are More need to keep up.”

For his part, Ezz El-Din Al-Muntasir Billah said, “The digital transformations that our country has witnessed, especially since the outbreak of the health crisis related to Corona, obligated Inwi, as a comprehensive player in the telecommunications sector, to adapt quickly and effectively to meet the needs of all components of society, especially youth groups, including where the students are.”

The President and General Manager of Inwi pointed out that “digital technology contributes to creating an appropriate and advanced environment, and to provide effective solutions to these needs of all groups; The best proof of this is the success of many digital initiatives in the field of education.”

Al-Muntasir Billah expressed his pride in “working alongside the Ministry of National Education, which launched constructive initiatives to modernize the education system, through effective and efficient integration of digital technology,” noting that “Inwi Challenge” is among these initiatives “that embodies the concerted efforts of the public and private sectors.” for the success of the digital transformation of schools.

Al-Muntasir Billah also affirmed “Inwi’s commitment to work hand in hand with the Ministry of National Education, Primary Education and Sports and various partners for the benefit of every constructive initiative in the field of education.”

It is noteworthy that the educational program inwi Challenge was launched by the Ministry and the Inwi Telecom Company with the aim of integrating information and communication technology into education, in order to improve the educational and learning processes; It is based on the principle of learning through play thanks to digital uses.

The second version of the program was launched this year, with the participation of more than 10,000 students belonging to 163 school institutions, with a total of 1140 training hours. More than 300 professors have also benefited from the training. The program targeted 57 cities across Morocco.