Why are you interested in studying abroad? What do you believe are the benefits of learning about and interacting with different cultures? INSTRUCTION: Your answer must be between 700 - 1500 characters (including spaces). Once you click “submit” your answer is considered final and cannot be changed. You are also not able to save a draft of your answer so you may want to draft it in a separate document before submitting. one year ago, I went to a scholarship called Education First. we learned something called Comfort Zone. this is the zone that we feel safe and comfortable like our friends or family, but there is another zone called danger zone, this is the zone that we feel unsafe like a new school or different experience, but solely try this different experience you will increase your comfort zone. I interested in studying abroad to increase my comfort zone by taking a new challenge. New friends, new culture. I want to go outside of my comfort zone and try to live a new adventure. the second thing is learning a new language. a new country means a new language with its native speakers. I am a sociable person; I want to move outside to learn new things and make new friends and studying abroad will help me in making friends. studying abroad will give me the chance to be independent. of course, I love my family, but I want to manage my life as I wish. the most important thing about studying away from my country is knowing and living with different cultures. the benefits of interacting with other cultures are 1- Accepting diversity, not all the world is Egyptian and has the same culture and habits, so interacting with other cultures will make me more acceptable to their habits and diversity between us. 2- I am a curious person that wants to discover and know new things. so new cultures mean new delicious food, new activities, and a new look about life, a look from their culture not from mine. Describe your interest and background in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). What makes you a great candidate for this program? This is an opportunity to tell us about your STEM coursework, school activities, hobbies, awards, and/or other, but please answer as an essay and not with a list or CV. INSTRUCTION: Please answer the following essay question. Your answer must be between 700 - 1500 characters (including spaces). Once you click “submit” your answer is considered final and cannot be changed. You are also not able to save a draft of your answer so you may want to draft it in a separate document before submitting. STEM is a fantastic word that contains Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. "Science is organized knowledge." I admire science especially chemistry and Biology. this love does not stop at only the subject in the school, I entered the Neuroscience competition called Brain Bee, and rise to the national competition of Intel ISEF in the chemistry branch. I always get free time for reading in science and find answers to my questions, this gives me a good knowledge that makes me qualified for a scientific question competition called Science WI-FI. in the school, we made Biology club and organize Biology day to help students in biology concepts. A film called “the truth about the killer robots". this film was talking about that the robots will kill the humanity and take their jobs, this thing I always wondering "could this happen one day", in the film they were talking about something called AI "Artificial intelligence", so I started reading about it, learned Arduino and start making robots(Maze robot and line-Follower robot) and entered a competition for robotics race and Entered NASA Space Apps Cairo 2020 by an Arduino project. learned some programming languages(python, C, HTML, and CSS) and make an event Called Code-It for teaching people programming. I love Math and logic thinking, in my free time, I solve some math problems and IQ tests, I participated in the International Kangaroo Math competition. When thinking about participating in a study abroad program with other students from around the world, what challenges might you and/or the group face and how would you overcome these challenges? INSTRUCTION: Your answer must be between 700 - 1500 characters (including spaces). Once you click “submit” your answer is considered final and cannot be changed. You are also not able to save a draft of your answer so you may want to draft it in a separate document before submitting. Eating food from my mum, playing games with my brothers and friends, and talking with my family in front of the fire all these things will be missed there. Homesickness, this is the first challenge we will meet in studying abroad. we will miss our family and friend, the community that helps us in difficult situations. we can overcome this by making new friends, new family, and new community. we will forget this by making our day busy with tasks of studying and activities with friends. the second challenge is the trouble that we will fall in because of unawareness of the country's laws. each one comes from different countries with different laws, so when we go to another country they have other laws, you can make something normal in your country but unnormal in their country and this is made to you embarrassment or money amercement. so, you have two solutions: the first one is reading their constitution or knowing more about people from videos or news. the second solution is watching the native citizens what they do and make like them. After adaptation to this country and their laws, making new community and friends we will find the reverse of the first challenge. when we leave after studying, we will refuse because we adapt to this new country and make a new community here, so we will be very sad because of returning to our country. we can solve this problem by adapting to the old community. other problems can solve with time and adaptation like language. What global, national, and/or local community challenge do you most wish you could help solve? How could you use STEM to help find a solution? INSTRUCTION: Please answer the following essay question. Your answer must be between 700 - 1500 characters (including spaces). Once you click “submit” your answer is considered final and cannot be changed. You are also not able to save a draft of your answer so you may want to draft it in a separate document before submitting. The Earth is a watery place. About 71 percent of the Earth's surface is water-covered, but only 2.5 percent of it is fresh. and the guilty humans are wasting this 2.5 percent without conscious of dangerous of this consumption, I am talking about the consumption of freshwater. we are wasting freshwater in things for doing tasks can be done by salty water like washing our hand, cars or dishes, taking shower, Leaky pipes, Running the water while brushing your teeth, and even more. these bad habits will not affect only humans but affect all living organisms in the world. Imagine that one day this freshwater is finished, there will not be water for plants to make their food, so they will die and animals will die because they fed on these plants and leave us alone without food or freshwater, so we will die too. using STEM in solving this problem by using Engineering in constructing dams to save water and generating electricity, making like a system that makes a range of gallons to each home per month by using technology like Arduino and using math algorithm in programming this system. using science by making salty water drinkable water. like in chemistry evaporation and condensation of the water.
