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IEEE Adawwa - Organized by IEEE Student Branch - University of Ruhuna

“IEEE Adawwa” is an event which was organized by the IEEE Student 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 of universities joined to the event. The event was a huge success with 284 total participants in Facebook live stream and 226 total participants in zoom platform. It was an awareness session, which was organized to make the 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.

• Chamika Sudusinghe: He is a final year undergraduate 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 Representative of IEEE Sri Lanka for the term 2020/21. Chamika has been an active volunteer 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 first IEEE student volunteer in Sri Lanka to win the Richard E. Merwin Student Scholarship award for his volunteering accomplishments.

         First, he asked 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 about regions of IEEE, and IEEE in Sri Lanka. And then he talked about IEEE student branches in Sri Lanka. Furthermore, he discussed about the Competitions, 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 and talked 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 asked 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.

• Sahan Ranwala: He 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 managing director of Lionel Ranwala Folk Art Foundation

         First, he talked about the importance 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.

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 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 which includes 3 digits, then told us to take the sum of those 3 digits, then 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.

After 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 us to dream more without ignoring education. Then he talked about his theory of making his life successful which is 6Es such as Environment, Education, Economy, Entertainment, Entrepreneurship, Eating (Which he means the importance of health). Finally, he asked us to stay updated always.

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 tired by working with them. At last, a participant asked him as for university undergraduate what 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.

As 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 was announced as,

• First place - Vikum Hiranga Molagoda from University of Jayawardhanapura
• Second place - Umandika Jayarathne from University of Ruhuna
• Third place - Sudeepa P Wijesekare from University of Ruhuna

Organizing committee which was behind to make this session a success event:

Sahan Ediriweera, Inushi Gunatilake, Tharani Thalgahagoda, Imalsha Madushani, Visal Adikari, Lahiru Dilshan, Navodya Rasangi, Mohindi Maddumage, Hiruna Fernando, Sadeera Rathnapriya, Anuradha Wickramasinghe, Isuru Dilshan, Saranga Nayanajith, Malkith A.V.A, Ashen Saminda,Melani Nuwandara ,Hanan Ramzan

 

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