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Competition is a major factor in education on a global scale, national education systems, intend to bring out the best in the next generation, by involving students in educational intellectual competitions and offering them incentives for self-improvement.
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| AEEDC Student Competition provided a unique opportunity to all dental students in their last academic years to actively interact with their counterparts from different dental colleges and universities through a face-to-face competition, with a vision of exchanging information, knowledge and expanding their horizons on various issues of dentistry. Competing students will be challenged to engage with Dental questions correlated to AEEDC conference lectures, in various subjects ranging from Infection Control and Four Handed Dentistry to Implantology and Oral Surgery. The competitor teams will strive for one goal which is winning the AEEDC Knowledge Champion. |
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| Objectives: |
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- To involve dental students in AEEDC Dubai programs.
- To create interaction among dental students of different institutions.
- To expand their knowledge in various issues in dentistry by active participation.
- To support and shape up the knowledge hunting sense of the future dentists.
- To develop an exciting environment and cohesion among dental students.
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It’s our pleasure to conduct the 2nd AEEDC Student Competition during the 15th UAE International Dental Conference & Arab Dental Exhibition – AEEDC Dubai, which is scheduled to be held from 1st -3rd February 2011 at the Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre. AEEDC Student Competition provides opportunities to all dental students in their clinical practice stage a unique opportunity to interact with their peers, share experiences and get exposed to work in collaboration with other students and under the supervision of faculty members. Generally, the students are challenged to engage with Dental questions correlated to AEEDC conference lectures, and as a group will work to answer related questions.
Your College are welcome to participate with us through nominating 5 students to be part of the competition, In this respect the college name will be part of all the promotional campaign related to the competition, it’s name will be carry in all our e-flyers ,newsletters and other advertising materials and campaign. The College logo will be also placed on AEEDC website with hyperlink to the university website. |
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| General Guidelines and Regulations: |
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- AEEDC Student Competition is open to all public and private dental colleges.
- Academic team are made up of (5) students which will be nominated from each university to be part of the competition.
- Participants must be bonafide students from the representing dental college.
- Participants must be in clinical practice stage (fourth or fifth academic  year)
- Each team is supervised by one faculty member from the same university.
- The faculty member supervisor will nominate one team leader (captain) from the five students to be the representative of the team while answering the questions.
- All participants should be registered in the conference.
- A draw process will select the competing teams in the preliminary round and will be announced to the participants of the competition.
- The teams qualifying for the final round are the teams with the higher scoring.
- The winner team will be the team which collects the higher points in the in the Final round.
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Competition Mechanics: |
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| The competition will be composed of rounds: |
- Elimination Round: This will be conduct on 1st and 2nd of February at 00:02 pm.
- Final Round: This will be conduct on the 3rd of February at 00:02 pm.
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Participating Teams:
A, B, C and D |
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| Elimination Round: |
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| A random electronic draw process will select the competing teams in the elimination round and will be announced to the participants of the competition before the event date. The teams qualifying for the final round are the teams with the higher scorings. |
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| Final Round: |
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The two winners of the preliminary round will compete with each other during the final round and the best scoring team will be declared as
AEEDC KNOWLEDGE CHAMPION 2011. |
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Competition Rounds Mechanism: |
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- All (5) representative of each dental college will work to answer the questions as a group including the captain student, who will deliver the grape answer.
- Questions will be related to AEEDC conference program lectures.
- The questions and answers will be from the speakers themselves and they are the only reference.
- Questions will be from the respective session previous to each round, i.e.: The morning session of each day.
- Questions shall come in multiple choice forms.
- Each round will be composed of (10) questions, (5) questions for each team.
- In case of incorrect answer, the question will not be transferred to the other team.
- Each question will be worth (1) point.
- Students have thirty seconds to discuss with each other before the team captain will deliver the grape answer.
- In case of tie, each team will have (1) tie breaker question, if both answered correctly, the process will be repeated.
- Any team caught to any act of cheating or any form of dishonesty shall automatically be disqualified by the decision of the judgers.
- Participating teams members are expected to present their University in a professional manner, any socially unacceptable behavior will result in automatic disqualification of their team from the competition.
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| Judging Criteria: |
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| Evaluation of each group on the basis of: |
- Accurate qualified answers.
- Ability to answer questions without hesitation.
- General poise and demeanor.
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| Prizes: |
- The best scoring team will be declared as AEEDC KNOWLEDGE CHAMPION 2010.
- 1000 AED be to each member student of the champion team.
- Free registration for AEEDC Dubai 2012 for each member student of the champion team
- Certificate of competition participation will be given to all team members.
- Invitation to AEEDC Dubai Night on 2nd of February 2011 for all teams’ members.
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| Click here to go to The 1st AEEDC Student Competition: |
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