Brilliant and distinctive Saudi brains have won a number of prominent awards from regional and international scientific and academic institutions during the past month of May. The winners represented various age groups and were school or university students. Some of them were specialized researchers.
Giving a chronology of the awards, local Arabic daily Al-Hayat has said that the winners reached 10 in number and their works covered various scientific, technical and educational fields at both regional and international levels.
A Saudi academic female has won an international gold prize during the Korean International Exhibition for Women Inventors held in Seoul. The exhibition was organized by the Foundation of the Korean Inventor Women, the Korean Office for Intellectual Property and the World Intellectual Property Organization.
The international judging panel gave the golden medal to Nadiya Andijani, a lecturer at the College of Arts and Internal Design in Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah, for inventing a lab apparatus to measure the sagging ability of cloth.
Four Saudi students made international accomplishments in the Balkan Mathematical Olympics 2012, which was held in Antalya, Turkey. They won one silver and three bronze medals. Saudi female student Samar Harb Al-Harfi, won a prize for distinguished trainee in clinical psychology in US Argosy University. The prize is given to the trainee of the month. Samar is making her doctorate degree in clinical psychology at Argosy University and the diagnostics center of Hartgrove Hospital in Chicago.
Professor Besali, a female member of the judging panel said: "Samar is making effective contributions. She is always competing and expresses her opinions in a positive and clear manner. Samar always presents meaningful subjects for discussion. She is an important member in our group."
Saudi Arabia also made its sixth successive win at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2012 by a team of 22 male and female students who presented 18 projects.
Director of the division of comprehensive quality at the department of girl education in Hail Falha Al-Shammari was awarded a top certificate for quality and distinction from the European Commission and the Swiss International Institute for Total Quality Management. She was crowned an accredited leader for total quality control. She has thus become among the first batch of total quality leaders in the Kingdom.
Al-Shammari has successfully passed a workshop to prepare leaders for total quality control organized by the Ministry of Education in collaboration with the European Quality Commission.
The Kingdom also won four medals (three gold and one silver) in its first participation in the Asian Young Inventors Exhibition (AYIE) 2012, organized simultaneously with the ITEX 2012 Malaysia — 23rd International Invention, Innovation & Technology Exhibition in Kuala Lumpur recently.
Saudis win 10 regional and international awards in May
