The 7th Issue of the Innovation@UAE Magazine: Sustainability in the UAE

UAE’S YOUNG SCIENTISTS The Higher Colleges of Technology’s Abu Dhabi Women's College’s business students’ team won 1st place in the ADNOCBloomberg Trading Challenge 2023 in collaboration with the Ministry of Education of the UAE in August of this year. This challenge is part of the ADNOC-Bloomberg Education Initiative..

The group of students was able to beat 41 other teams.

In 2019, the UAE Ministry of Education, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), and Bloomberg agreed to implement a training and development program called the ADNOC-Bloomberg Education Initiative.

The HCT team dubbed, the Trojans, was one of the five finalist teams in the nationwide competition alongside other finalists from Higher College of Technology (HCT), United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD),, and Herriot Watt University.

The Trojan team comprised Asma Ameen Al Saleem, Bashaer Eissa Alameri, Fatima Ahmed Al Amodi, Maha Omar Almentheri & Wasmeia Abdulla Almansoori, and was supervised by Business Faculty member, Dr. Kamran Lakhani participated in the 3rd edition of the Trading Challenge that enables students to simulate analysts’ trading and produce original analysis on a range of topics.

The competition, which started in February 2023, was launched under the theme of clean energy translation and the UAE’s role as host of COP28, the UN climate conference, which takes place from November 30 - December 15, 2023, on the site of Expo 2020.

The competition comprised two phases. The first phase was stock trading on the ADX or Dubai Stock Exchange, using Bloomberg Access to achieve the highest capital gains for ISSUE 7 123