BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Africa/Cairo BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260424T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1FR;BYMONTH=4 TZNAME:EEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261029T230000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1TH;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:EET END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260408T120608Z UID:D34E0B18-D528-4472-90C0-0217D5D5C307 DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Cairo:20260722T090000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Cairo:20260723T170000 DESCRIPTION:About The IC-SIT’2026\n\nThis competition aims to stimulate s tudents’ interests\, excite them\, and enable them to understand and exp erience the role of engineering in scientific and engineering innovation. This is an annual event where high school and college students can work wi th engineering and business professionals to design or invent a product to show off.\n\nThe competition will culminate in an exhibition of project d isplays\, final judging\, and awards presentation in Alexandria\, Egypt. T he competition will be divided into levels and categories. The competition website\, [IC-SIT’2026 Competition](https://r8.ieee.org/egypt-apmtt/ic- sit-competition/)\, has the most recent updates for the competition detail s of all the activities.\n\nBenefits of IC-SIT competition\n\nIn fact\, th e IC-SIT competition provides much-needed structure to those who are just getting started in science\, technology\, and engineering\, while also ser ving as a skill-building opportunity for those who are more advanced in sm art technologies\, antenna\, microwave\, electromagnetics\, coding\, progr amming\, design development\, robotics\, sensors and much more.\n\nThe adv antages of the IC-SIT competition include opportunities for students to th ink critically and work autonomously in some cases or to collaborate in te ams in others\, thereby strengthening their collaborative and social skill s. Furthermore\, for both newcomers to IC-SIT and advanced students\, the right competition can provide a great opportunity to enhance their vision and practical practice. The IC-SIT competition\, like most competitions\, especially for online and virtual events\, can offer prizes as well as a w ay for participants to earn money from home.\n\nThe IC-SIT competition all ows anyone living anywhere in the world to present and develop their exper ience on a global scale. Aside from having fun\, all participants can expe ct to solve real-world problems\, face challenges that require hands-on pa rticipation\, and think outside the box.\n\nWho can participate in this co mpetition?\n\n- The IC-SIT competition has two levels for both internation al and national competitors:\n\n* Secondary Schools (Government-STEM-Priva te-Technological)\n\n* Colleges and Universities (Government-National-Priv ate-Technological)\n\n- Individuals or small groups of up to ten students can form teams. All team members must attend the same high school\, colleg e\, or university.\n- Each school\, college\, or university may allow up t o ten teams to participate.\n- The student(s) must compete in their respec tive category based on their age and the level/class they are currently at tending in the year of the competition.\n\nAgenda: \nCompetition Timeline\ n\n-\n\n25 April 2026\n\nDeadline for Registration and Proposal Submission \n\n-\n\n5 May 2026\n\nPreliminary Selection Notification\n\n-\n\n30 May 2 026\n\nDeadline for 2nd Level Project File Collection\n\n-\n\n15 June 2026 \n\nLevel Acceptance Notification\n\n-\n22 June 2026\n\nApplying Verificat ion Video for Final Judging\n\n-\n\n3 July 2026\n\nNotification of Final J udging\n\n-\n22-23 July 2026\n\nCeremony of Awards\n\nAlexandria\, Al-Iska ndariyah\, Egypt LOCATION:Alexandria\, Al-Iskandariyah\, Egypt ORGANIZER:dr_yasser.madany@yahoo.com SEQUENCE:6 SUMMARY:International Competition on Smart Innovation Technologies (IC- SIT'2026) URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/553685 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><h2 class="title__line"><strong><img style="d isplay: block\; margin-left: auto\; margin-right: auto\;" src="https://eve nts.vtools.ieee.org/vtools_ui/media/display/c369e4df-4be5-4864-9ea7-6089d7 f83af5" width="558" height="372"></strong></h2>\n<h2 class="title__line">< strong>About The IC-SIT&rsquo\;2026</strong></h2>\n<p>This competition aim s to stimulate students&rsquo\; interests\, excite them\, and enable them to understand and experience the role of engineering in scientific and eng ineering innovation. This is an annual event where high school and college students can work with engineering and business professionals to design o r invent a product to show off.</p>\n<p>The competition will culminate in an exhibition of project displays\, final judging\, and awards presentatio n in Alexandria\, Egypt. The competition will be divided into levels and c ategories. The competition website\,&nbsp\;<strong><a href="https://r8.iee e.org/egypt-apmtt/ic-sit-competition/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IC-S IT&rsquo\;2026 Competition</a></strong>\, has the most recent updates for the competition details of all the activities.</p>\n<div class="section__t itle--2">\n<h2><strong>Benefits of IC-SIT competition</strong></h2>\n</div >\n<p>In fact\, the&nbsp\;<strong>IC-SIT competition</strong>&nbsp\;provid es much-needed structure to those who are just getting started in science\ , technology\, and engineering\, while also serving as a skill-building op portunity for those who are more advanced in smart technologies\, antenna\ , microwave\, electromagnetics\, coding\, programming\, design development \, robotics\, sensors and much more.</p>\n<p>The advantages of the&nbsp\;< strong>IC-SIT competition</strong>&nbsp\;include opportunities for student s to think critically and work autonomously in some cases or to collaborat e in teams in others\, thereby strengthening their collaborative and socia l skills. Furthermore\, for both newcomers to IC-SIT and advanced students \, the right competition can provide a great opportunity to enhance their vision and practical practice. The IC-SIT competition\, like most competit ions\, especially for online and virtual events\, can offer prizes as well as a way for participants to earn money from home.</p>\n<p>The&nbsp\;<str ong>IC-SIT competition</strong> allows anyone living anywhere in the world to present and develop their experience on a global scale. Aside from hav ing fun\, all participants can expect to solve real-world problems\, face challenges that require hands-on participation\, and think outside the box .</p>\n<div class="section__title--2">\n<h2><strong>Who can participate in this competition?</strong></h2>\n</div>\n<ul class="list list-disc">\n<li >The IC-SIT competition has two levels for both international and national competitors:</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>&nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbs p\; * Secondary Schools (Government-STEM-Private-Technological)<br></stron g></p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; * Colleges and Universities (Government-National-Private-Technological)</strong></p>\n<ul class="list list-disc">\n<li>Individuals or small groups of up to ten stu dents can form teams. All team members must attend the same high school\, college\, or university.</li>\n<li>Each school\, college\, or university m ay allow up to ten teams to participate.</li>\n<li>The student(s) must com pete in their respective category based on their age and the level/class t hey are currently attending in the year of the competition.</li>\n</ul>\n< p><img style="display: block\; margin-left: auto\; margin-right: auto\;" s rc="https://events.vtools.ieee.org/vtools_ui/media/display/c43138ff-ad65-4 e1b-9113-756c36d1c78c" width="750" height="1060"></p><br /><br />Agenda: < br /><div class="section__title--2">\n<h2 id="competition-timeline"><stron g>Competition Timeline</strong></h2>\n</div>\n<div class="hori-timeline ho ri-timeline-first" dir="ltr">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class="px-4">\n<div class= "bg-soft-danger event-date text-danger"><strong>25 April 2026</strong><str ong>&nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\ ; &nbsp\; &nbsp\;</strong></div>\n<h5><strong>Deadline for Registration an d Proposal Submission</strong></h5>\n</div>\n</li>\n<li>\n<div class="px-4 ">\n<div class="bg-soft-primary event-date text-primary"><strong>5 May 202 6&nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; & nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\;</strong></div>\n<h5><strong>Preliminary Selection N otification</strong></h5>\n</div>\n</li>\n<li>\n<div class="px-4">\n<div c lass="bg-soft-danger event-date text-danger"><strong>30 May 2026&nbsp\; &n bsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbs p\; &nbsp\;</strong></div>\n<h5><strong>Deadline for 2nd Level Project Fil e Collection</strong></h5>\n</div>\n</li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n<div class="hori -timeline" dir="ltr">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class="px-4">\n<div class="bg-soft -primary event-date text-primary"><strong>15 June 2026&nbsp\; &nbsp\;&nbsp \;</strong></div>\n<h5><strong>Level Acceptance Notification</strong></h5> \n</div>\n</li>\n<li>\n<div class="bg-soft-primary event-date text-primary "><strong>22 June 2026&nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbs p\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\;</strong></div>\n<h5><strong>Applying V erification Video for Final Judging</strong></h5>\n</li>\n<li>\n<div class ="px-4">\n<div class="bg-soft-primary event-date text-primary"><strong>3 J uly 2026</strong></div>\n<h5><strong>Notification of Final Judging</strong ></h5>\n</div>\n</li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n<div class="hori-timeline" dir="ltr" >\n<div class="bg-soft-success event-date text-success">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class="bg-soft-primary event-date text-primary"><strong>22-23 July 2026</ strong></div>\n<h5><strong>Ceremony of Awards</strong></h5>\n</li>\n</ul>\ n</div>\n</div> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR