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PROJELEC
is a special talent competition
hosted by Project initiative Club, in collaboration
with CELEC Club. It is a program, in which stu-
dents with creative ideas apply, learn the basics of
electronics and entrepreneurship, and then build
their electronic projects in a short period of two
months, and understand, thus, how to commer-
cialize their ideas-turned-projects in a competi-
tive market.
As a first time two clubs work side by side to co-
ordinate such competition, expectations are quite
high among the public scene, though the organiz-
ing team is keeping a positive spirit, despite the
struggle they are facing with the launching of this
first edition, they are hoping the results will meet
those expectations, and maybe climb even higher,
after all, it is known that the University of Science
and Technology Houari BOUMEDIENNE holds
numerous brilliant and talented students who,
by the way, are very ambitious and motivated to
make a difference in our society, but are some-
times hindered by the lack of skills or materials,
that’s why the PI and CELEC clubs are prepared to
give those persons with promising futures a small
push, and mentor them into being the business
men and women they should really be.
The idea of PROJELEC came from the several ac-
ademic projects that have been made, but never
actually reached the market, which is a shame, ob-
viously, for they could’ve solved many economic
issues (and other department’s problems). Now,
some of you would find that a bit hard to believe,
but people, especially project holders, are usually
unaware of the dimensions of markets they are in-
vesting in, it is really no joke, and some basic ideas
can, most likely, make exceptional profits, if they
are treated in a ‘good’ way, if I may say.
The competition happens in 4 respective rounds,
known as ‘phases’, the first one being the applica-
tion, where teams of 2 to 4 students submit their
project for analysis.
Then follows the second phase, where organizers
would, basing their selection on the project poten-
tial and other factors, choose 10 final teams, who
would soon proceed to the third phase, in which
they’d receive all the mentoring they need, I men-
tion: professional soft skills (preparing for bigger
challenges), electronic coding, public speaking,
how to create a business plan model…etc. Com-
petitors shall rest with no worry, however, as the
organizers will be fully fending them with needed
materials, work spaces, coaches and more.
As for the final round, which will reportedly take
place during the university’s 43rd anniversary, the
finalists are to hold, in front of Juries, an ‘eleva-
tor page’ (30 seconds of fast speech to present the
main idea of their project), in addition to a formal
presentation of the project (this time explaining
all details). The Juries will then announce the win-
ning team, and give a 10 minutes talk about entre-
preneurship, the digital industry and maybe even
some success stories.
Everyone is curious about what exactly will the
winners receive, right? Well, aside from the ex-
perience th ey’d gain along their newly developed
skills, the winning team will be granted incuba-
tion programs, where they’ll be mentored till the
creation of their start-up, meaning they will have
the chance to market their idea and build a com-
pany out of it. Plus, some material packages of-
fered by the PROJELEC sponsors.
With all that explained, I’m curious to know if
some of you are considering entering the next
PROJELEC editions, if you have an idea, then
nothing can stop you, as DELLI Amel, a main or-
ganizer of this program, said: “a student, especial-
ly in the engineering field, shouldn’t only depend
on his grades, this is his chance to benefit from a
full mentoring program and be the entrepreneur
of his own ideas, so he’d be the source of employ-
ment and development”.
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