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DEAR IEEE Student Friends!
A great year is now coming to an end
with a better one to come. 2013 was
a year full of excellent student activities and events, cross-sectional and
sectional congresses as it is usual in
odd years. So many nice memories
from ISBC, MESBC, CEuSBC, HSBC and
of course, all the Sectional Congresses like
UK&RI, Egypt etc.
Develop a mobile app
and win big prizes
SIX criteria will be judged: UI Design, User Experience, Usefulness, Availability, Number of supported
platforms and Open source support.
Participants must send us their applications (in
proper format), screenshots and a short video of application in which they will show how app is working. Applications that pass the idea stage will go to
development. All applications that pass the judging
threshold will be uploaded on online market account
for every mobile platform and will be available to
download for free.
All information about madC is available online at
www.ieeer8.org – just look under Students activities
–> Awards and Contest –> IEEEmadC.
You can also follow us on our official Facebook
page at www.facebook.com/IEEEmadC.
After the competition, every participant will receive a t-shirt and the best three teams will receive
attractive prizes (smartphones, tablets, etc).
The IEEE Foundation General Fund has given big
support for IEEEmadC and IEEE Student Branch Osijek
won the 2013 Student Enterprise Award for it.
We invite all students to learn how to develop
useful mobile applications, submit them to IEEEmadC
and win great prizes. And don’t forget to have fun
while doing it!
Josip Balen
IEEE Region 8 SAC has a new jewel
Check out our new SAC Logo, above. This design
is now the brand of our Student Activities in our
Region. At this point, we would like to thank David
Dias for his contribution this year, and to wish him
good luck in his new adventures.
Student and Young Professional
Congress 2014
Yes, you read correctly: our Regional Congress has
been renamed from SBC to SYP! This year’s event
will be held in the beautiful city of Krakow, Poland,
from 6–10 August 2014.
University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
Technology day is great for catching up
UNDER the patronage of Dr Kleif AlTarawneh, president of the University of Jordan, the IEEE JU Student
Branch organised an event entitled
‘Technology Catch-Up’ with the
Arab Academy for Science and Technology,
Alexandria, Egypt
Student Branch shows its
qualities in leadership
IEEE Egypt Section, Alexandria,
Arab Academy for Science and
Technology Student Branch wrote
some more pages in its success
story with its sixth annual event,
‘Leading Your Career, Leading Your
Society 2013’.
From 8–10 February, the
programme covered 30 hours of
technical workshops and soft skills
sessions in three days. Our target
audience included graduates, students and schools.
For the first time, a short movie
was shown in the Planetarium,
with the theme ‘Be Unique…
Change The World’.
Our main sponsor, ITIDA, gave
us technical and financial support.
It will be a great opportunity for students to meet, learn about IEEE and
its programmes, exchange ideas with
other fellow students and professionals around Region 8 and have
a memorable experience. Prepare
your traditional delicacies, your nice
outfits, energy and your best smile
because SYP 2014 is going to Krakow!
More details will be announced at the official
website at www.sbckrakow.pl.
You can always visit us at our webpage www.
ieeer8.org/category/student-activities and Facebook page www.facebook.com/ieee.r8sac,
or send us your news and awesome activities at
[email protected] and we can share with the world
your experience.
Keep up the excellent work and thank you for
being part of the IEEE Family. See you at the next
event.
Your Region 8 Student Activities Committee,
Pablo, Christian, Piotr, Efthymia,
Elias and Djordje
[email protected]
R8 STUDENT ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE
New branding for SAC, new name for
SBC... 2014 looks set to be even better
Sparks Centre, Compute Square
and Hashtag magazine gave us
academic and media support.
This year we welcomed representatives from Egypt Section,
including Alexandria Student
Branch, Helwan Student Branch
and Misr University for Science
& Technology Student Branch.
We succeeded in securing female
speakers and attendees thanks to
the involvement of IEEE Women in
Engineering.
Daily feedback forms on organisation and programme content
were highly positive with excellent
ratings for registration, help desk,
hosting, transportation, organisation, event agenda and venue.
Participants at
the Technology
Catch-up event
co-operation of the student initiative TechnoEcho. It was a two-day
event at the Faculty of Engineering,
gathering more than 300 University
students from all over Jordan.
The first part introduced the latest technologies and tools that the
world is currently focusing on and
which have the highest rate in development: smart phone development
tools, markets and their changes day
after day, web development, robotics, electronics and social media.
The second part was about soft
skills and managerial skills which
encouraged each student to start
his own project. It included sessions
such as: how to know things, how
to be an active millionaire, how to
prepare yourself for interviews, and
how to think creatively.
All of these together with interactive sessions and contests with a
big technology expo. This event was
one of the biggest events in technology field in Jordan and attendees
received certificates for the training
they received.
Mosab Alawad
JU Student Branch vice chairman
Ahmad Ayyad
JU Student Branch chairman
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