Best Letter

Greetings Curtin Family,

It was with great interest that I read the fifth issue, discovering various sections of the PRODIGY Magazine from the many other students at Curtin First of all, thank you for this Magazine and the opportunity to contribute to it I found a lot of these views thought-provoking I was happy to be given the opportunity, to express my candid opinion I loved the anatomy of the PRODIGY cover design, notably the aesthetics, typography, and placement— basically, all the steps you need to consider to achieve a successful magazine cover design that will fly off the shelves I love how it delivers great content to its readers, i e in a conversational style that creates a rapport So, we are truly able to see the different personalities of everyone The Curtin news helps the Curtin family get a sense of what's happening in Curtin The Social Club pop-ups are a nice addition as it gives the readers an insight into what's going on Moving on to their Article Writing section, which lets the writer talk about their perspectives on the proposed topic truly updates us about what is happening in the world Moreover, to persuade more students to engage with this idea, they are introducing the first time-ever PRODIGY Awards This is a great tactic to engage with all the students I like to give a shout-out to Ruvimbo Moyo who wrote a well-written and, creative article called "What is There to Life?" My favourite section in the magazine is the Photography bit which looks pretty professional with such clean composition However, I would like to see pictures based on a theme Moving on to the month's recipe Penne Pollo Picante which seems so easy and delicious Although, I would like to see some photos of the step-by-step process Last but not least, I loved the Calendar at the end of the Issue as it helps students understand what activities are going on Campus using a color-coded schedule Overall, I would rate it as 8 5 out of 10, as there were minor issues such as inconsistent formatting here and there I am glad to be part of this!

Yours truly,

Khadija Asif

Congratulations, Khadija Asif! You are the winner of this edition's Best Letter Contest! You will receive an email on how to collect your prize soon

Best Letter Contest

Send your letters and feedback on this edition of the magazine by August 30, 2023 with your name and course to prodigy@curtindubai ac ae The winning entry will be judged on clarity and relevance, and will receive a Curtin Dubai goodie bag! The editor's decision will be final All the best!

To be considered for the next issue, please send in your entries for the opinions, fiction, poems, artworks, and photography sections by August 30 2023

Foundation IT student, Minn Thit Kyaw, represented the Dubai campus at the Curtin Global Pitching Competition Winners from each of Curtin's campuses competed in a grand final The winning team from the Mauritius Campus won the overall championship this year

Minn's pitch was about Elyana, a online platform that aims to encourage young children towards more physcial activity

Curtin Dubai students and staff had an exciting end to the month of June with the Intra University Sports Competition 2023 ‘Team Staff’ landed the overall Championship while students from various schools won the individual sports category best player awards The student teams were divided on the basis of their school Teams competed in many sports such as football, basketball, volleyball and badminton It was truly a week of incredible sportsmanship!

Director of Research and the Head of School - Engineering, Prof Chithirai Pon Selvan PhD, PDF, SFHEA(UK) was honoured as a distinguished keynote speaker at the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches in Civil Engineering for Sustainable Development (IACESD) 2023. Prof Selvan was also recently awarded the

Curtin Dubai's Mechanical Engineering student, Veronique Dina Itot Ngono, was selected as a recipient of the Scholarship Award from the prestigious ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) This recognition is welldeserved for her hard work and dedication to engineering excellence

Curtin Dubai recently organized a networking event for alumni and postgraduate students where several industry partners were also invited to share their knowledge and experience with students The event also highlighted the results of the latest employability results from March 2023, which showed a 95% placement rate for all Curtin graduates within one year of graduation. During the event, the first graduate of the employability series, Syed Usman, was also presented a plaque of appreciation.

Curtin Dubai's School of Engineering has succeeded in establishing the Curtin University Dubai Student Society of Engineers Australia (EA) under EA's UAE Chapter The official inauguration ceremony was hosted on campus in the presence of prominent EA members from Dubai

The annual summer camp organized by Curtin Dubai returned a high participation rate from highschool students. It was the second year of the week-long camp being held fully on campus since the pandemic During the week, students learnt different skills such as public speaking, coding, Fusion360 and photography The photography session was organized by sponsors Nikon

Trimester 2 2023 saw a Social Clubs Fest at the start of the trimester for Social Clubs to showcase themselves and attract students to sign-up for their respective clubs. One of the clubs at the Fest was the Book Club - a relatively new social club in the university There were different activities - from 'Blind Date with a Book' to customizing bookmarks and writing a short story. Students were given a random trope to begin their story Below are three examples of short stories written by students in the Book Club section:

Villain Protagonist

By: Kani Ahmadpour

BOOM! The thunderclaps Rain patters down the foggy glass of the black sedan The luminescence of the flame climbs higher with each ticking minute Tick tock Tick tock Hours turned into minutes Minutes turned into seconds And finally, seconds turned into milliseconds as the clock struck 12 ‘’Happy Birthday” sang the villain as tears crawl down their cheeks “To me” Light reflected through the window, and swish, the villain’s head turned down towards their phone ‘Don’t forget to buy cat food': popped up on the notification. Deep sighs echoed through the car...no one. Not one person remembered, why should they care anyway? Pittar patter continued, in terms of rain...and care for the world around them...

Classmates to Best Friends

By: Anonymous

Since I joined university, I was so embarrassed to speak to my classmates especially because they were from different nationalities, but this one guy seemed to look friendly and he was Arab, so I took this as a first step to get to know my classmates, during the pandemic it was hard to meet people personally, so I started texting him on WhatsApp and we used to play online games together, so I was introduced to his online character, and I liked it, and after the pandemic we went back to face to face classes, so I finally got to meet him and since that day we started to shine in university in all clubs and because of him I now have so many friends and we are best friends till this day.

Anger-issues - Forever enemies

By: Anonymous (not quite)

“It is all because of him,” said Yaman “I will never forgive him” (*angry face*) "He killed my wife and left my kids to burn and suffer, and most importantly HE SPILLED BLACK COFFEE on my WHITE SHIRT How dare he! I will curse him for eternity Hatim you won’t get away with this not this time "

To be continued