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EdTech Club Community

Service Bootcamps

In an altruistic effort to spread knowledge and awareness in the indeed, her highly interactive two-day long training session audience and the feelings the designer wishes to elicit. The bulk
technological field, the EdTech club at Prince Sultan University garnered a total of 82 interested learners. The training session of the design process as she has mentioned takes place during the
organized a series of blended / online community service took place within the female campus in PSU as well as remotely. brainstorming session, which she detailed on with perfect clarity,
bootcamps in collaboration with the department of computer Ms. Atheir has tackled a variety of topics while offering abundant as it is highly contingent on skills and visual feeding. Lastly, she
science at “Rowad Al Mustaqbal charity organization”. The examples and applications of artificial intelligence. After starting went over the tools of Adobe Illustrator and demonstrated how
training sessions mainly targeted the institute’s community from off with a warm introduction, she introduced the topic throughout to best use them in order to apply the formulated ideas. After
affiliates and volunteers as well as interested students within an exercise so that the attendees could have a better grasp of going over its basics, she encouraged the learners to apply what
PSU. The sessions spanned five consecutive days from the 27th its crux. Accordingly, she delved into each of the following facets they have learned in a competition in which they have to analyze
of November until the 1st of December, and they were presented of her session: defining artificial intelligence (AI), the properties an advertisement of their choice and critique it accordingly. The
by highly competent PSU alumni in Arabic. and components of smart devices, metrics for measuring learners were definitely happy with the learning outcomes they
their efficiency and performance, the categories of AI, and AI achieved at the end of the session.
The EdTech Club Bootcamps were organized by two female faculty applications. Ms. Atheir established a strong connection with the
members of the Computer Science (CS) Department, Ms. Jalila audience, constantly taking their perception and feedback and The Importance of Cybersecurity
Zouhair & Ms. Maram Alajlan, supported by the CS Department, providing them with videos and simulations to better understand The final community service training session was remotely given
Community Service Office, and student volunteers. The following the concepts she addressed. As for the AI categories, Ms. Atheir by both Ms. Joud Alqasem and Ms. Shahad Alangari, with 28
5 PSU alumni presented the boot camps. explained simple-reflex, goal-based, utility-based, and model attendees. With the prevalence of cybersecurity, they have done
1. Atheer Hamad (Artificial intelligence and its application in based agents on the first day and learning agents on the second a spectacular job in delivering a session that raises awareness
Business) day. Each was explained with detailed examples. The second about its most essential ideas. The topics they have tackled in
2. Yusr Alkurdi (Graphic design) day mostly focused on incorporating AI into business plans as their session included: defining cybersecurity and its goals,
3. Banan Hamad (Designing Advertisements Using Adobe well as the voluntary sector. Finally, Ms. Atheir brought her six- exploring common terms related to it, cryptography, physical
Illustrator) hour session to an end by introducing a small competition for security, the different types of hackers, malicious programs, and
4. Joud Alqasem & Shahad Alanqery (Cyber Security and Social the attendees in which they had to introduce a way of creating social engineering. Throughout the session, they provided real
Engineering) a smart device and explain its benefits. The attendees expressed life applications of cybersecurity; for instance, they illustrated
The bootcamps were also assisted by the following student their satisfaction with the session in many ways, which is shown how the CIA triad can be achieved in IT systems. They also
volunteers below. discussed the common terms like PEN testing, cyberattacks, and
1. Raneem Alsoby system vulnerabilities. Furthermore, they debunked common
2. Tahema Taher Graphic Design misconceptions of hackers by highlighting the difference between
3. Ariam Almohsen The third community service training session was handled by the the ethical and unethical ones. The audience had many inquiries
4. Raghad Basamh insightful Ms. Yusr Alkurdi, who has a rich experience in the field regarding the topics they have covered, which Ms. Joud and Ms.
5. Haifa Alrassi of graphic design and user interface. The graphic design workshop Shahad catered to with appropriate feedback and fruitful advice.
6. Nada AlTahan took place remotely and had a total of 58 attendees. After They concluded the session by covering the impact of social
7. Sara Alrassi having an amiable introductory icebreaker, Ms. Yusr brilliantly engineering on individuals and organizations and gave guidance
8. Sahab Alsubaei traversed the following topics: introduction to graphic design, from experience on how to circumvent them. Their session was
9. Sarah Aljurbua how to become an adept graphic designer, visual feeding, mood extremely informative and included questions to evaluate the
10. Tala Alhazmi boards, the principles of graphic design, and the Canva tool. Since audience’s knowledge. The audience expressed their enthusiasm
most of her knowledge emanated from experience, she was and satisfaction on having learned essential concepts that are
An appreciation ceremony concluded the EdTech boot camps generous enough to share advice on how to channel creativity critical in today’s tech-centric generation.
on 18th December 2022. The presenters received plaques and inspiration into graphic design and how to deliver the proper
of appreciation and all the volunteers received certificates. In message immaculately. Furthermore, Ms. Yusr highly encouraged
addition, one winner was announced from each boot camp based the attendees to enrich their design perspective before
on the effort made in the project. The projects specifications embarking on the graphic designer journey. Upon highlighting
were given to the students during the workshop. the principles of graphic design, she provided an example of each
Dr. Sofianiza Abd Malik, Associate Chair of the Computer Science as well as how to apply them efficiently in any project. Finally,
department, appreciated all organizers and presenters for their she urged the learners to apply the knowledge they have gained
efforts in hosting boot camps that offered knowledge about from the session onto Canva since it highly facilitates the graphic
cutting-edge technologies. The Director of the Community design process. To do that, she created a competition in which
Service office, Ms. Muneera Al-Dhubaiban, congratulated the they have to apply the knowledge onto an invitation card, and in
entire team on making the Boot Camps event successful. Rowad order to qualify, the cards have to be designed using the Canva
AlMustaqbal charity director, Ms. Haya Al-Shamary, thanked application. Overall, the attendees expressed their gratitude and
the EdTech club founder and supervisor Ms. Jalila Zouhair for satisfaction with Ms. Yusr’s wonderfully conducted session.
her effort in organizing the Bootcamps, and thanked all the
presenters (our Software engineering alumni) for their hard work Designing Advertisements Using Adobe Illustrator
and continuous support for the participants. She also wished In the fourth community service training session, Ms. Banan
this initiative will be a continuous collaboration between Rowad Hamad volunteered to give an in-depth training session on
AlMustaqbal charity and PSU. how to creatively design advertisements and make them stand
out. The session took place remotely and had a total of 30
List of the winners attendees. Ms. Banan proved her keen proficiency in determining
•Artificial Intelligence and Its Application in Business (Haneen a unique advertisement design and creating one from scratch.
Akmal) She elaborated on each of the steps that constitute creating an
•Graphic Design (Raya Aldweesh)- (Rawan Alhathly) advertisement which were: choosing the appropriate design,
•Designing Advertisements Using Adobe Illustrator (Hajar Al brainstorming, sketching a draft, and executing the design.
Saeedy) Before diving into the steps, she highlighted the key types of
advertisements and explained the incentive of each. Throughout
The sessions were the following: her session later on, she constantly took the audience’s opinion
and perception of different advertisements and taught them
Artificial Intelligence and Its Application in Business how to analyze the semantics of their components. She also
The artificial intelligence workshop could not have been a brilliant emphasized on the importance of assimilating features of
success without Ms. Atheir Hamad’s magnificent contribution; advertisement in a way that is compatible with the target