Awesome Opportunity

SO I am an International Relations major and I just found out that 10 minutes walking distance from where I'm living in Alexandria, they are going to be having a conference titled....wait for it: Initiatives in Science, Education, and Culture Towards Enhanced US-Muslim Countries Collaborations. I know...it's a mouthful...the shortened more common name is : The New Beginnings: US and Muslim Relations.

I think that's pretty cooooool...It's a follow up on the speech that Obama gave in Cairo a year ago but here's a little blurb on a summary!

The BA is organizing an international conference titled: "Initiatives in Education, Science and Culture Towards Enhanced US- Muslim Countries Collaborations" during the period from 16 to 18 June 2010. It will bring together a diverse group of scholars, clergymen, community leaders, political figures, education experts, university students, faculty members, technology consultants, and library professionals from the US, Egypt and many other countries around the world. The conference will be structured around three main themes: Education, Culture, and Science and Technology, exploring each of them in conjunction with four cross-cutting tracks, namely, Youth, IT, Media, and Women. The uniqueness of the conference lies in that it will come up with a number of specific follow up projects and activities and will focus on building a digital social networking to connect people together, particularly youth.

Here are a few of the topics for the conference

Reconceptualizing the Role of Education in the Dissemination ofKn owledge

Adoption of Modern Technologies for a productive Society

New Opportunities for Youth Engagement in Science

Education as an essential tool of eradicating oppression against women

Ways & Means of Promoting Cultural Diversity in the Media

Cultural Issues & Women’s role in Human Development

So yeah...I'm kind of excited about this conference. Don't know if I'm going yet...It's invitation only...but I've sent out a few emails so we'll see if people respond :) I'm keeping my fingers crossed! This is such a great opportunity and after attending soo many conferences and being involved in Model UN...it seems that attending this one will be another knowledge bomb! I love learning stuff and the idea of being in the center of the preparation for the future! haha ANYWAYS. that's that.

I'm super excited and Everyone says I'm super prepared...I brought pretty much everything with me from silverware to fingernail polish....and get this...I even brought a suit just in case something like this occured! Hopefully I'll get to put it to use and my over-preparedness won't be in vain!