LYM Session - 11 October 2009

11 October 2009

Our meeting was moderated by Ahmed Fathy, LYM General Coordinator. Fathy welcomed the attendees and introduced the tasks of different organizing committees.  He asked the attendees to seek help from any of the organizers whenever they need it.  

The first presentation was entitled “My experience in Turkey“ by Ibrahim Gamal El Din. He talked about his experience with a scholarship he got in an academy for leader creation at Turkey where he got to know about the Turkish culture. He displayed some facts about Turkey; population, unemployment rates, investment volume and life trends. Then, he went back to talking about the leadership course; he introduced some of the instructors, course subjects, and the collaboration between the students. he also shed lights on what he gained from such experience; mainly creative thinking, networking and getting to know about a different culture. After that, we had an open discussion; where the attendees asked him about his future plans, how they can utilize such an activity in enhancing the collaboration between Arab countries and the possibility to convert the content of this course into a workshop to maximize the benefit. 

Then, we had a presentation entitled “Keys to Success“ by  Islam El Sayed, Hoda Aboul Magd, Dalia Tawfique and Ola Farid . The presentation was about believing in one’s self and being consistent on his/her dreams and how it would lead to success. The girls began introducing a project which aims at enhancing the blinds’ interaction with their environment, improving their skills, increase their self esteem and their parents’ awareness so that one day they could become one day scientists or researchers through using computers and feeding their eagerness for knowledge, thus, converting them into producers instead of just consumers. Then, Islam talked about the technical side of the project, the tools used in it and introduced his project aiming at improving a tool used to draw 3D pictures into a practical, less expensive one. Finally, he displayed a movie about the efforts he exerted in this project.