Arwa Al-Abdulkarim

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Arwa Al-Abdulkarim

12 Jul 2024

First of all, there is nothing greater on the face of this earth - after faith in God and belief in His Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace - than learning beneficial knowledge and teaching it. God Almighty said: {Say: Are those who know equal to those who do not know? Only those with understanding will remember.} (9) Surah Az-Zumar. How can they be equal when God Almighty has raised the status of the people of knowledge and elevated their position?

Five years ago, I was in the sixth grade, and like any student, I had the opportunity to take the Mawhiba Scale test, and I was among the top 1% of students who took the test, praise be to God.

From here was the beginning of the care, I joined the gifted classes in the first intermediate grade, where I learned new and unique things, which were like the fuel that moved me and made me better, as in the enrichment program I learned independent research and how to document sources, in addition to the fact that I became fully aware of what research is, and I can now say that I am a distinguished researcher, as for the guidance program through which I knew my strengths and worked on developing and employing them in the correct way, and on the other hand I knew my weaknesses and continue to work on improving them; as the invention system program made my mind think differently, and I began to look at things in a new way, as I can now distinguish the originality of the idea, and how to transform my idea into a project, as I transformed one of my ideas into a scientific project, and participated in the National Olympiad for Scientific Creativity, Innovation Track in 1436 AH, and I was also able to pass two stages in the Mathematics Olympiad for 1436 AH.

Thanks to God, my academic excellence and obtaining a high score on the Mawhiba Scale test enabled me to enter and pass the acceleration test, so I moved from the first intermediate grade to the third intermediate grade. I was also able to obtain three bronze medals in the Mathletics Global Program.

In 2019, I was nominated as the best student in the Riyadh region to represent the region in the seventh educational trip. I was also honored at the Al-Shifa office level as an outstanding student in academic achievement and aptitude test performance.

A number of my summer vacations were sponsored by the King Abdulaziz and His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity, where I participated in the Mawhiba Enrichment Program held at King Saud University, which was titled Coding in 2016. The following year, I participated in the Mawhiba Research Program held at King Saud University. In 2018, I joined the International Enrichment Program within the Kingdom affiliated with “Oxmedica Cambridge University”, in the Coding and Computer Programming track. The experience was a challenge for us to learn the Java language and the most prominent basics of programming in an advanced manner, and to gain scientific experience in a short period of time, but despite the density of the scientific material we studied, the experience was enjoyable and opened wide doors for us.

After joining the Mawhiba International Program, my greatest passion became in the field of robotics and programming, as I have now learned many programming languages; such as: Java, Task, Mblock and many other languages, as I trained a number of students on programming using different languages.

While in the field of robotics, I won first place at the Riyadh level, and then at the Kingdom level in the Eighth National Robotics Olympiad in 1437 AH.

In 1438 AH, I won first place at the Kingdom level in the Ball Collector Robot Competition, and qualified for the Arab Robotics Championship held in Qatar. This was my first international participation in the field of robotics.

In 1439, I won first place in the First Lego competition as the best project.

During the year 1441 AH, I joined the Mawhiba Association, and with the Mawhiba Association, I was appointed as an advisory member in the Generations Program of the Saudi Space Authority!

I was before you a simple example of Mawhiba students, where I learned to solve problems, and that trial and error is a good way to learn. Through my experience with Mawhiba and my participation in competitions, I realized the meaning of fair competition, and that knowledge and enjoyment are much more important than winning and losing. Thanks to Mawhiba, I now know what my passion is and I know very well the way to develop it, as self-development is the ladder to the horizon.

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