Honoring the Enactus team at the Faculty of Al-Alsun Council

Yesterday morning, Prof. Dr. Salwa Rashad, Dean of the Faculty of Al-Alsun at Ain Shams University, honored the Enactus team of Ain Shams University, the winner of the 2022 World Cup, which was held in Puerto Rico, during the full faculty council meeting in its monthly meeting at the faculty’s headquarters.

The team's participation came under the auspices of Prof. Dr. Mahmoud El-Meteini, President of Ain Shams University, Prof. Dr. Abdel Fattah Saoud, Vice President for Education and Student Affairs, Prof. Dr. Ayman Saleh, Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research, Prof. Dr. Omar Al-Husseini, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Prof. Dr. Salwa Rashad, Dean of the Faculty of Al-Alsun, and the team included 8 students from the Faculty of Engineering and 2 from the Faculty of Al-Alsun, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Khaled Kaira, Head of the Department of Mathematics and Engineering Physics.

During her speech, Prof. Dr. Salwa Rashad, Dean of the Faculty, said that science today depends on breaking down barriers between sciences and merging disciplines of all kinds, and fusing them to produce new knowledge that humans would not have accessed without the overlap between sciences.

She pointed to the keenness of the Faculty of Al-Alsun to honor the brilliant university team during the World Cup competitions and to achieve the world title so that Ain Shams University continues its sober steps in the hands of its children and scholars in reaching its global position that it deserves among the ranks of international universities.

The Enactus team, Ain Shams University, won first place in the 2022 World Cup competitions that were held in Puerto Rico from Sunday, October 30 to Wednesday, November 2, with the participation of 32 countries. In the first round of the competition, the Egypt group included Mexico, Germany, and Kyrgyzstan, and in the next round, Egypt's group included Nigeria, Brazil, and Morocco. In the final round, the Ain Shams University team defeated Tunisia, England, and Canada to win the World Cup.

The team includes

Prof. Dr. Khaled Abdel Wahab Kaira - Team Supervisor - Advisor Faculty - Director of Specialized Programs and Chairman of the Department of Physics and Engineering Mathematics - Ain Shams Engineering

Mohamed Saad Mohamed - Team Leader – the Faculty of Engineering

Ziyad Wajih Ahmed - Vice President for Projects - the Faculty of Engineering

Habiba Ahmed Farouk - Vice President for Projects - the Faculty of Engineering

Mariam Ahmed Noah - Vice President of IT - the Faculty of Engineering

Malak Walid Hamdi - Presentation Coordinator - the Faculty of Engineering

Tasneem Ahmed Saleh - Presenter - the Faculty of Engineering

Omar Emad Sayed - Presenter – the Faculty of Engineering

Gomana Sameh Fawzi - Presenter - the Faculty of Al-Alsun

Shaima Saleh Suleiman - Presenter - the Faculty of Al-Alsun

The students’ project included the extraction of Chitosan from locust shells, which contain between 40-60% of chitin, from which chitosan can be extracted, both of which are used in many industries such as the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries, in order to provide an environmentally friendly solution and achieve a project without any waste. The locust body was used to manufacture poultry feed in order to provide a cheaper alternative to the feed that is in great demand in the Egyptian market, as the husks of the Nile locust contain about 20-40% of protein, which is an appropriate amount for the production of animal feed that has a better effect on chickens than regular feed.

The team was also able to produce environmentally friendly bio-pesticides and manufacture a water purification filter.

It is worth noting that ENACTUS is an American non-governmental organization with branches in 33 countries around the world in about 1626 universities, while in Egypt it has branches in 62 universities and faculties.

ENACTUS's activity is based on entrepreneurship in the field of development projects, and the World Cup is held in October of each year in one of the countries where the activity is taking place.