BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Colombo BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20380119T084407 TZOFFSETFROM:+0530 TZOFFSETTO:+0530 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=3TU;BYMONTH=1 TZNAME:+0530 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20060415T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0600 TZOFFSETTO:+0530 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=3SA;BYMONTH=4 TZNAME:+0530 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20211016T075708Z UID:EE7D20D0-17AE-4986-BB72-5F92E8984CD2 DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Colombo:20211009T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Colombo:20211009T180000 DESCRIPTION:IEEE Adawwa - Organized by IEEE Student Branch - University of Ruhuna\n\n“IEEE Adawwa” is an event which was organized by the IEEE St udent branch\, University of Ruhuna. The event was held on 09th of October at 04.00pm via zoom platform and Facebook platform. Students from a lot o f universities joined to the event. The event was a huge success with 284 total participants in Facebook live stream and 226 total participants in z oom platform. It was an awareness session\, which was organized to make th e participants aware of the values of gaining IEEE membership. And also\, there was a session about lifelong learning. There were two guest speakers who joined with us.\n\n- Chamika Sudusinghe: He is a final year undergrad uate from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of University of Moratuwa. Currently\, he is serving as the secretary of IEEE Region 10 Student Activities Committee. Furthermore\, he was the Student Representa tive of IEEE Sri Lanka for the term 2020/21. Chamika has been an active vo lunteer of IEEE since 2017 and was part of many of the projects that were carried at both the university level and national level. He became the fir st IEEE student volunteer in Sri Lanka to win the Richard E. Merwin Studen t Scholarship award for his volunteering accomplishments.\n\nFirst\, he as ked the participants to raise a hand if they are totally new to IEEE. And then he described what is IEEE society which included sharing knowledge ab out regions of IEEE\, and IEEE in Sri Lanka. And then he talked about IEEE student branches in Sri Lanka. Furthermore\, he discussed about the Compe titions\, Awards\, Events\, and scholarships given by the IEEE society and then he discussed about the membership and Why volunteering for IEEE over the years matters …etc. Then he shared his experience of IEEE with us a nd talked about how it connects with leadership\, Experience\, Crisis mana gement. By talking about IEEE values and his experience with IEEE he motiv ated the participants to join with IEEE. In his Q and A session a particip ant asked about the values of the IEEE certificate then he answered by say ing how important to have an IEEE certificate not only valid in our countr y but in other countries as well.\n\n- Sahan Ranwala: He is a well-known a ctor in Sri Lankan cinema\, stage drama and television. And also\, he work s as a musician\, composer and a presenter. He is the managing director of Lionel Ranwala Folk Art Foundation\n\nFirst\, he talked about the importa nce of changing the attitudes of people for good. He discussed how people complain about the work they must do and doing them unhappily affects the mental health.\n\nThen he did an exercise told us to close our eyes and to ld us to imagine drawing an apple in an A4 sheet. Then discussed about how each of us drawn the apple\, all imagined drawing it in the middle of the A4 sheet and the apple was red\, leaf is green and then he told all of us were trained from our childhood to think in a same way. Then he proved it again by doing another exercise. He asked us to think about a number whic h includes 3 digits\, then told us to take the sum of those 3 digits\, the n told us to subtract the sum from the number we imagined\, then he told s ome of the participants to tell 2 numbers of the subtracted value after th at he guessed the 3-rd. number. Then once again he proved the fact that we all are trained to think in a same way from our childhood.\n\nAfter that he shared his experiences with us World tours\, competitions\, his studies …etc. He told us not to stop learning when we reach the goal. He told u s to dream more without ignoring education. Then he talked about his theor y of making his life successful which is 6Es such as Environment\, Educati on\, Economy\, Entertainment\, Entrepreneurship\, Eating (Which he means t he importance of health). Finally\, he asked us to stay updated always.\n\ nIn his Q and A session a participant asked about how he manage his time. Then he told us about how he always chooses to work hard but with the peop le he loves to spend time with and does not make him tired by working with them. At last\, a participant asked him as for university undergraduate w hat is his advice for all the participants\, then he asked us not to stop working. Always work hard because he believes in “people who works hard are the people who are successful”. With that he ended his session.\n\nA s a part of the event\, we organized a meme competition as well. Therefore \, as the final session of the event the winners of the meme competition w as announced as\,\n\n- First place - Vikum Hiranga Molagoda from Universit y of Jayawardhanapura\n- Second place - Umandika Jayarathne from Universit y of Ruhuna\n- Third place - Sudeepa P Wijesekare from University of Ruhun a\n\nOrganizing committee which was behind to make this session a success event:\n\nSahan Ediriweera\, Inushi Gunatilake\, Tharani Thalgahagoda\, Im alsha Madushani\, Visal Adikari\, Lahiru Dilshan\, Navodya Rasangi\, Mohin di Maddumage\, Hiruna Fernando\, Sadeera Rathnapriya\, Anuradha Wickramasi nghe\, Isuru Dilshan\, Saranga Nayanajith\, Malkith A.V.A\, Ashen Saminda\ ,Melani Nuwandara \,Hanan Ramzan\n\nSpeaker(s): Chamika Sudusinghe\, Sahan Ranwala\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/284754 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/284754 ORGANIZER:ruwanthajayaweera@ieee.org SEQUENCE:8 SUMMARY:IEEE අඩව්ව URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/284754 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><span style="font-size: 18pt\;"><strong>IE EE Adawwa </strong>-<span style="font-family: arial\, helvetica\, sans-ser if\;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: arial\, helvetica\, sans-se rif\;">Organized by IEEE Student Branch - University of Ruhuna</span></p>\ n<p>&ldquo\;I<strong>EEE Adawwa</strong>&rdquo\; is an event which was org anized by the IEEE Student branch\, University of Ruhuna. The event was he ld on 09th of October at 04.00pm via zoom platform and Facebook platform. Students from a lot of universities joined to the event. The event was a h uge success with 284 total participants in Facebook live stream and 226 to tal participants in zoom platform. It was an awareness session\, which was organized to <strong>make the participants aware of the values of gaining IEEE membership. And also\, there was a session about lifelong </strong>< strong>learning.</strong> There were two guest speakers who joined with us .</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Chamika Sudusinghe</strong>: He is a final year u ndergraduate from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Un iversity of Moratuwa. Currently\, he is serving as the secretary of IEEE R egion 10 Student Activities Committee. Furthermore\, he was the Student Re presentative of IEEE Sri Lanka for the term 2020/21. Chamika has been an a ctive volunteer of IEEE since 2017 and was part of many of the projects th at were carried at both the university level and national level. He became the first IEEE student volunteer in Sri Lanka to win the Richard E. Merwi n Student Scholarship award for his volunteering accomplishments.</li>\n</ ul>\n<p>&nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\;First\, he asked the partic ipants to raise a hand if they are totally new to IEEE. And then he descri bed what is IEEE society which included sharing knowledge about regions of IEEE\, and IEEE in Sri Lanka. And then he talked about IEEE student branc hes in Sri Lanka. Furthermore\, he discussed about the Competitions\, Awar ds\, Events\, and scholarships given by the IEEE society and then he discu ssed about the membership and Why volunteering for IEEE over the years mat ters &hellip\;etc. Then he shared his experience of IEEE with us and talke d about how it connects with leadership\, Experience\, Crisis management. By talking about IEEE values and his experience with IEEE he motivated the participants to join with IEEE. In his Q and A session a participant aske d about the values of the IEEE certificate then he answered by saying how important to have an IEEE certificate not only valid in our country but in other countries as well.</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sahan Ranwala</strong>: H e is a well-known actor in Sri Lankan cinema\, stage drama and television. And also\, he works as a musician\, composer and a presenter. He is the m anaging director of Lionel Ranwala Folk Art Foundation</li>\n</ul>\n<p>&nb sp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\;First\, he talked about the importance of changing the attitudes of people for good. He discussed how people com plain about the work they must do and doing them unhappily affects the men tal health.</p>\n<p>Then he did an exercise told us to close our eyes and told us to imagine drawing an apple in an A4 sheet. Then discussed about h ow each of us drawn the apple\, all imagined drawing it in the middle of t he A4 sheet and the apple was red\, leaf is green and then he told all of us were trained from our childhood to think in a same way. Then he proved it again by doing another exercise. He asked us to think about a number wh ich includes 3 digits\, then told us to take the sum of those 3 digits\, t hen told us to subtract the sum from the number we imagined\, then he told some of the participants to tell 2 numbers of the subtracted value after that he guessed the 3-rd. number. Then once again he proved the fact that we all are trained to think in a same way from our childhood.</p>\n<p>Afte r that he shared his experiences with us World tours\, competitions\, his studies &hellip\;etc. He told us not to stop learning when we reach the go al. He told us to dream more without ignoring education. Then he talked ab out his theory of making his life successful which is 6Es such as Environm ent\, Education\, Economy\, Entertainment\, Entrepreneurship\, Eating (Whi ch he means the importance of health). Finally\, he asked us to stay updat ed always.</p>\n<p>In his Q and A session a participant asked about how he manage his time. Then he told us about how he always chooses to work hard but with the people he loves to spend time with and does not make him tir ed by working with them. At last\, a participant asked him as for universi ty undergraduate what is his advice for all the participants\, then he ask ed us not to stop working. Always work hard because he believes in &ldquo\ ;people who works hard are the people who are successful&rdquo\;. With tha t he ended his session.</p>\n<p>As a part of the event\, we organized a me me competition as well. Therefore\, as the final session of the event the winners of the meme competition was announced as\,</p>\n<ul>\n<li>First pl ace - Vikum Hiranga Molagoda from University of Jayawardhanapura</li>\n<li >Second place - Umandika Jayarathne from University of Ruhuna</li>\n<li>Th ird place - Sudeepa P Wijesekare from University of Ruhuna</li>\n</ul>\n<p >Organizing committee which was behind to make this session a success even t:</p>\n<p>Sahan Ediriweera\, Inushi Gunatilake\, Tharani Thalgahagoda\, I malsha Madushani\, Visal Adikari\, Lahiru Dilshan\, Navodya Rasangi\, Mohi ndi Maddumage\, Hiruna Fernando\, Sadeera Rathnapriya\, Anuradha Wickramas inghe\, Isuru Dilshan\, Saranga Nayanajith\, Malkith A.V.A\, Ashen Saminda \,Melani Nuwandara \,Hanan Ramzan</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR