In IAT, we were required to complete our graduation project, which was a software that can be helpful in libraries that can let students search the database for book using Book name, ISBN, or Category. We were as a group of four with 6 more groups in IT cluster. I know that we are few as an IT cluster because they just decided to have an IT cluster, so we were the first group to be in IT cluster. We worked so hard on our project, that was about to be done, but as an IT professional, there is nothing called finish, because a software will not finish. In other words, there are different ways that you can update your software.
When we reached their, we saw more than hundreds of projects from deferent fields such as electronics, websites, and software. They informed us that three judges will come to us, each alone, and each will give us points. Then, they will add the points, and choose the best six groups. So, we went to our palace where we will present our project. The first judge came to us, but he just saw 30% of our project. Then, the second judge game, and the same happened, just 30 % of our software. Finally, the last judge came, but he said just tell me what your software can do, without running it because he ran out of time. We were very angry, because how it is going to be fair if he did not see our software. We informed our teacher about that, but he said just ignore it for the mean time. Now, is the time when they will add points and decide who will be the first six groups. This time, all the judges will go through the six groups and decide who will be in the first three places.
At that moment, we were pretty sure that they will choose our group as one of the 6 groups, but they didn’t. We were very angry, and we spoke to the one who is higher than those judges. He said that he received complains, that the last judge was not fair, so they deleted his points. But we insisted him personally to come and see our project. We presented the project in details. Here comes the good news, he was happy with our project, and inform the other judges to see our project, so there are now seven groups to choose from.
It is time, now they will choose who will be in first 3 places, they started with the third places, and I and my friends said that they will give us the third place because we were very angry, but the winner was from Liwa International School – Al Ain. We decided that we will be in second place, but they were from Shakboot Bin Sultan High School – Al Ain. We lost our hope and we definitely agreed that we are not in the first place. When they mention the first place, they said “The first place is IAT – Dubai” I couldn’t believe that. How can they give us the first place, where we were not even among the six. places, but that does not matter, what matter is that we are in first place. Soon later, we won as the first group in our school.
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