1. National Technology Parade 2008

2. Outline Venue Organizers and Sponsors Objectives Activities Projects Support Prizes Registration

3. Venue A multi-day event, May 2008 In The Faculty of Engineering and Technology, The University of Jordan

4. Organizers The University of Jordan UNIFEM PSUT JUST Yarmouk University Amman University IEEE

5. Sponsors

6. Objectives Motivating the creative and innovative thinking and practical skills. Connecting students projects outputs with the market and local community needs. Creating interactive communication channels between various market parties and university graduates. Encouraging the healthy and ethical habits of work among students that are related to teamwork, leadership, and taking the initiative. Highlighting capacity and role of female students in the field of technology and engineering technology.

7. Parade Activities Distributing awards to winning students projects. Projects Exhibition and presentations. Company booths for recruiting students. Companies presentations Presentations addressing new advancements in technology and engineering. Lego Robotics competition. Technical and non-technical lectures for preparing the graduates to enter the job market.

8. Project Themes Technology in serving the community and the environment Technology at service in home and office Mobile applications Robotics and smart systems E-learning Open theme (other ideas)

9. Project Ideas Document Tracking-RFID Solution, Estarta Cisco IP Phone Application, Estarta University Academic Website, Ministry of ICT Arabic Child Website, Ministry of ICT Electronic Polling Systems, UNIFEM and SEDCO What-If-Analysis for Queuing System, SEDCO Jordan's Volunteers Portal, UNIFEM, INJAZ, and Ministry of Political Development Workflow Management Engine, Optimiza Arabic OCR (Optical Character Recognition), Optimiza AMAN WEB Enabled Services, Optimiza Business Intelligence Telecommunication Model, Oracle

10. Support Support the students participating in developing projects in the six project themes or the project ideas suggested by the participating organizations. The ceiling of this financial support is JOD500 for every student team. Additional technical and financial support is available for some of the project ideas.

11. Prizes Six prizes for the six project themes, JOD500 each. One JOD500 prize for best project selected by the audience. One JOD1,500 prize for best project supervisor for attending a conference. Additional prizes from the participating organizations for the Project Ideas.

12. Registration Form a team (1-4), select a team leader. Get a supervisor Do the project in the Academic Year 2007/2008 Fill the registration form Get support Submit you work in March 2008

13. Questions? http://fetweb.ju.edu.jo/tp