NEWS LETTERS

Newsletter Oct 08, 2005
UAE Educational IT Challenge

In this newsletter

1. Official Launch
The UAE Educational IT Challenge will be officially launched on October 24th 2005, 11am, at the Dubai Men's College (HCT), Academic City, Dubai. Sponsors, new initiatives and new categories will be announced. We extend an invitation to you all to attend the official launch.

2. Calendar
The event calendar has been updated on the website. Provisional dates for roadshows in Sharjah, Al Ain and Dubai have been added (subject to change). You can view the calendar of events online at http://www.uaechallenge.com/calendar.htm

The project exhibition of finalist projects from the GCC will be held on April 22nd 2006, which will be followed by the award ceremony with trophies being presented by His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan. A gala dinner will follow the award ceremony.

Our special guest speaker from Hollywood USA will be on the morning of April 23rd 2006.

All events will be held at the Grand Hyatt Convention Center in Dubai. You can find out more about the Grand Hyatt at http://dubai.grand.hyatt.com/

3. Roadshows
Our staff will be making presentations about the IT Challenge at various locations throughout the UAE. Presentations have already taken place in Cairo and Muscat.

Roadshows will be held in Dubai, Sharjah and Al Ain. We invite all students and teachers to attend these presentations.

We will provide further information about dates and venues of the roadshows in the next newsletter. For more information on a roadshow, please contact Khawla Ali at uaechallenge@hct.ac.ae or 02-6941-209 (1-5pm).

4. International Judges Appointed
A number of international judges have been appointed to the judging panel. We welcome the following international judges appointed so far, and will announce others shortly.

5. Global Junior Challenge 2006 (ROME) calls for projects
The Global Junior Challenge 2006 invites submission of new projects for the 2006 competition.

The Global Junior Challenge http://www.gjc.it is a global award promoted by the Digital Youth Consortium http://www.gioventudigitale.net , a non-profit organization founded by the Municipality of Rome and six major ICT companies. The intention of the award, dedicated to young people and to schools, is to identify and reward best practices on the use of new technologies in education and training of youngsters.

Deadline for submission of projects is 30 July 2006. More information and details about the Global Junior Challenge 2006 can be found online at http://www.gjc.it/

6. Stockholm Challenge open for projects
The international Stockholm Challenge is now open for entries, welcoming ICT based projects from all over the world to enter the award and compete for the Challenge trophies. The Prize giving ceremony will take place in the Stockholm City Hall in May 2006 and all finalists will be invited to participate in the event.The Stockholm Challenge is a very successful international networking program for ICT entrepreneurs since almost ten years.

Projects can be entered online at http://www.stockholmchallenge.se/

Deadline for submission of projects is 31 December 2005. You can read more about the Stockholm Challenge online at http://www.stockholmchallenge.se/

Robert Brown
Program Coordinator, UAE Educational IT Challenge