Mission to promote education
The triumph in a global competition of Thai students highlights Intel's longtime efforts to promote education in Thailand.
Intel has supported a number of educational programmes in the past, including the global International Science and Engineering Fair competition in which Thai students triumphed. In addition, Intel Teach is an ongoing project that Intel launched in 2003 in partnership with the Ministry of Education. To date 150,000 teachers in Thailand and some 10 million around the globe have been trained.
Last week, Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration won the Emerging Impact Award at the 7th annual Intel Global Challenge in the US.
“Intel has a strong commitment to fostering student innovation around the globe,” said Accharas Ouysinprasert, country manager, Intel Microelectronics (Thailand). “Through our education programmes, we’ve seen first hand how empowering entrepreneurs positively impacts individuals, communities and economies.”
“The Intel Global Challenge competition helps students develop lifelong innovation skills to identify problems and develop solutions they will use throughout their careers. It has been a real pleasure to see the Quainnova team win such a prestigious award in a global competition. They are the first Thai team to have participated in the competition,” said Accharas Ouysinprasert.
Over the past decade, Intel has invested more than $1 billion around the world and its employees have donated close to 3 million hours towards improving education in more than 60 countries.
