Islamic Azad University to Hold ‘Rinofest’ Festival for School Students
“The first student festival (Rinofest) will be held at an advanced level on December 5-8 and over 7,000 technologist and innovative students have registered for participation,” Hamed Taqipour, the head of the executive headquarters of the ‘Rinofest’ student festival and the head of Islamic Azad University’s Ilkhchi branch, told ANA.
“Over 7,000 students have registered in this festival so far, which is a very large number, and 1,200 teams with 1,400 participants have been accepted,” he added.
Taqipour noted that ‘Rinofest’ is held in four sections of competitions, exhibition of technological achievements, seminars and mentoring.
Experts in the field of technology and innovation will be present at the ‘Rinofest’ student festival, and over 2,500 students will visit the festival every day, he added, saying that the Iranian minister of education, the vice-president for technology, the head of Islamic Azad University and several other officials have been invited to participate in the closing ceremony of the festival.
Iran had also in May 2023 held the 12th International Innovation and Technology Exhibition (INOTEX) at Pardis Science and Technology Park in Tehran with a focus on science, technology, and innovation ecosystems.
The four-day event that had gathered a large number of Iranian and foreign business people, technologists, industrialists, university students and professors, school students and researchers was hosting almost 450 companies.
INOTEX aimed to introduce products, facilitate partnerships and provide various insights on the latest global competitive prices, quality standards, developments, scientific findings, and economic-technological ideas.
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