Milestone Verified
Listed among the IEEE Jordan Section's student branches
The IEEE Jordan Section lists the University of Petra among its 25 student branches. IEEE records identify the branch as organisational unit STB10115.
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Achievements
An evidence-based timeline. Every entry links to its source and states exactly what it is — award, participation, milestone or partnership.
- Milestone
- Competition result
- Participation
- Community impact
- Award
2026
- Competition result Verified
1st place — The AI Hackathon, Amman (project Rawi)
Team Vcoders from the University of Petra won first place with their project Rawi at The AI Hackathon in Amman, organised by Fikr Ventures with Replit on 10–11 October 2026 at King Hussein Business Park (tracks: EdTech and the Future of Work).
Venue photo: Orange Jordan - Competition result Verified
1st place — AI Quest 2026 (AI App Hackathon)
Team Vcoders won first place in the AI App Hackathon at AI Quest 2026, hosted by the Data Science Club at Al Hussein Technical University (HTU) on 9–10 October 2026, in the track “Jordan.society() — Smart Society & Public Services”.
Photo: Data Science Club – HTU, 14 October 2026 - Competition result Verified
1st place overall — IEEE Jordan AI Modeling Hackathon 2.0
University of Petra team Vcoders placed first overall and won the Dialect Identification challenge at the hackathon held at the Jordan University of Science and Technology. A second University of Petra team also qualified.
Photo: University of Petra news, 19 August 2026 - Competition result Verified
2nd place — North Amman Entrepreneurship Hackathon
Team Vcoders presented Palm Guard at the hackathon organised through the Irada programme.
Photo: University of Petra news - Competition result Verified
1st place — Google Antigravity IDE Challenge 2026 (project RASAD)
Team Vcoders from the University of Petra won first place in the Media track with the RASAD project, scoring 92.67, in the challenge organised by Google Developer Groups on Campus at Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan.
Poster: GDG on Campus Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan - Competition result Verified
1st place in Region 8 — IEEE R8 Humanitarian Technologies Hackathon 2026
Team VCoders won first place in Kraków, Poland, with Palm Guard, ahead of 86 teams from across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Photo: University of Petra news, 30 July 2026 - Competition result Verified
1st place & Best Engineering Innovation — World Robotics Championship, Caspian Sea Cup
Team Vcoders represented the University of Petra with Palm Guard in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Photo: University of Petra news, 30 June 2026 - Competition result Verified
1st place — Petra Shark Tank 2026
The Palm Guard project, presented by team Vcoders, won Petra Shark Tank 2026 at the University of Petra.
- Competition result Verified
2nd in the Arab world — Arab Robotics & AI Competition (Full Robot track)
Team Vcoders presented Palm Guard in the Full Robot track at Amman Arab University and placed second.
Photo: University of Petra news - Participation Verified
Paper qualified to the final day — IEEE Jordan Student Paper Contest 2026
A University of Petra student paper on federated learning was accepted for AEECT 2026 and qualified to the contest's final day.
- Competition result Verified
1st place — Astro Code 2026
Team Vcoders placed first at Astro Code 2026 at Amman Arab University.
- Competition result Verified
3rd place — RoboCraft Competition
Team Vcoders placed third at the RoboCraft robotics and AI competition at Jadara University.
2025
- Competition result Verified
Best Innovation recognition — 7th Jordan International Date Palm Festival
Team Vcoders presented the Palm Guard project and received a “Best Innovation in the Kingdom” recognition.
Photo: University of Petra news - Milestone Verified
Branch hosts the Sustainable Technology Hackathon
The branch and its CIS chapter recorded the Sustainable Technology & AI Innovation Summit and its hackathon at the University of Petra, organised with IEEE Jordan. Team V-Coders won the hackathon (see the separate result).
- Competition result Verified
1st place — Sustainability Hackathon 2025
Team V-Coders won first place with Palm Guard; ten finalists were chosen from 45 submissions. The hackathon was organised with IEEE Jordan.
Photo: University of Petra news - Competition result Verified
2nd place — Nova Brainlytics Hackathon
Team Vcoders placed second in the Data Cleaning & Data Analysis track at Yarmouk University.
- Competition result Verified
2nd place — IEEE Jordan AI Modeling Hackathon 1.0
A University of Petra student team (“bot busters”) placed second in the IEEE Jordan Section’s AI Modeling Hackathon 1.0.
Photo: University of Petra news - Competition result Verified
2nd place — AI Innovators Hackathon 2025
Team Bot Busters from the Faculty of IT placed second among 53 teams from 18 Jordanian universities with an AI autonomous-agents project.
Photo: University of Petra news - Participation Verified
Participation — IEEE Jordan Student Paper Contest 2025
The University of Petra was one of 20 participating universities, with a qualified paper (IJSPC-2025-045).
2024
- Community impact Verified
16-session hands-on Arduino workshop series
Between November 2024 and January 2025 the branch ran an introductory session followed by 15 recorded hands-on sessions on TinkerCAD, breadboards, push buttons, potentiometers and LCD screens.
- Competition result Verified
2nd place — Arab IoT & AI Challenge at GITEX 2024
An IEEE Jordan Section unit's report states that a University of Petra team placed second with the “Neuro Touch” project. The branch's role in the team has not been confirmed.
- Milestone Verified
IEEE Jordan Section leadership visits the branch
The Chair and Vice Chair of the IEEE Jordan Section visited the University of Petra to present IEEE's mission, initiatives and opportunities to students.
2018
- Award Verified
3rd place in Europe, Middle East & Africa — IEEE Member Get Member
The University of Petra reported that its IEEE student club placed third in Region 8 (Europe, Middle East and Africa) in IEEE's Member Get Member recruitment programme.
- Milestone Verified
Opening Branch Celebration — earliest event on IEEE vTools
The earliest branch event recorded on IEEE vTools: a celebration marking the opening of the IEEE branch at the University of Petra, attended by about 30 students according to the event report.