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Saudi Students Win Remarkable Prizes In an International Science Fair
A team consisting of 20 Saudi students have participated in Intel ISEF fair -a leading US science and engineering fair- and the largest pre-college science competition in the world.
The fair was held in Phoenix, Arizona, and five Saudi students were brought together with 1,800 finalists from 80 countries, to compete for awards in innovative research.
Winners of major prizes were Abdullah Al-Sannan and Dima Al-Melhem, who won fourth place for their environmental engineering project.
In fourth place came, Wud Al-Saadoon, a project in chemical energy; Haya Al-Tuwaijry, who also won fourth place for a botany project; and last but not least Shawq Al-Madani, who won third place for an environmental engineering project.
Those bright students who attended the science fair were representatives from King Abdul Aziz and his Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity (Mawhiba).
Three astounding prizes were also handed to the Saudi scientific team. The University of Arizona awarded Al-Madani with a scholarship; while Al-Saadoon won a special prize offered by United Technologies and finally, Noorah Al-Dosari received a special award from NASA!
Mawhiba secretary-general, Saud bin Saeed Al-Mathami, congratulated the students and praised Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) for its sponsorship of the Saudi team.
He also highlighted the need for a strategic partnership between SABIC and Mawhiba; in training and showing support to the bright young minds of Saudi students. Which moves in accordance with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 and the National Transformation Program 2020.
In five days, an international motor show, will take place in Jeddah. The Jeddah superdome, 6th December and until 10th of December, will be one of the biggest international motor shows. The exhibition is sponsored by the ministry of transport and logistics and organized by the Salah company. The Jeddah Superdome, has set a world Record for being the largest freestanding dome in the world, in contrast to the Tokyo Dome which formerly held the title, with 206 meters. Located on the Madinah Road, West of King Abdallah sport City, the Jeddah Superdome has an internal area of 24,000 square meters, and a height of 46 meters, with a diameter of 210 meters, a parking space that accommodates 5200 viceless. The exhibition includes many experiences such as drifting, with professional drivers, on dedicated racks, go karting, off road experience with SUVs with professional drivers in a dedicated circuit, and an opportunity to drive the car of your dreams. In addition to restaurants, cafes that suit all of your tastes. The exhibition includes many important car agencies and exclusive launches of many vintage and antique cars presented for the first time in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in addition to an auction of rare classic cars, with more than 35 luxury and rare cars on display. The auction was held by the Silverstone auctioneers, the biggest UK classic car auction house. The event is the biggest in its name, and the car industry, featuring the oldest cars, but unfortunately nothing was sold.
Beaches of the Kingdom are about to get cleaner with the ‘Let’s Make Them Cleaner’ initiative, which was launched on Friday by the Saudi Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development.
Professional divers are taking part of the campaign as volunteers who are ready to clean the beaches and seabeds of Saudi Arabia, in order to save the marine environment from pollution.
The initiative is one of the events launched for Saudi and International Volunteer Day, which is celebrated every year on the 5th of December.
Entitles ‘Ataa Watan,’ the event covers several programs and activities across Saudi Arabia, they were held in partnership with government bodies and NGOs.
So far, the ministry launched five initiatives throughout this year, as part of the Voluntary Work Platform it launched on March 31, 2020.
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