AEEDC Student Competition

AEEDC Student Competition – Conference Hall B

Competition is a major factor in education on a global scale. National education systems intend to bring out the best in the next generation, by involving students in educational intellectual competitions and offering them incentives for self-improvement.

It’s our pleasure to conduct the 12th edition of the AEEDC Student Competition virtually this year through a game-based platform. AEEDC Student Competition is one of the activities of the UAE International Dental Conference & Arab Dental Exhibition – AEEDC Dubai, which will be held between 29 Jun – 1 Jul 2021, at the Dubai World Trade Centre.

AEEDC Student Competition provides a unique opportunity to all dental & oral medicine students by participating through their universities. Each university is participating with a team of 5 students in their 4th & 5th academic years, who will actively interact with their counterparts from different dental colleges and universities. A vision of exchanging information, knowledge and expanding the students’ horizons on various fields of dentistry. Competing students will be challenged to engage with questions in various subjects in oral & dental medicine ranging from Infection Control and Four Handed Dentistry to Implantology and Oral Surgery. Last year, AEEDC Student competition hosted 23 universities from MENASA region & Europe.

I] Objectives:

• To involve dental students in AEEDC Dubai programs.
• To create interaction among dental students of different institutions.
• To expand their knowledge in various fields in dentistry by active participation.
• To support and shape up the knowledge hunting sense of the future dentists.
• To develop an exciting environment and cohesion among dental students.

II] General Guidelines and Regulations:

• This year the competition will be running virtually through a game-based platform.
• AEEDC Student Competition is open to all public and private dental universities/colleges.
• Submission of the participation form does not automatically entitle the applicant to participate in AEEDC Student Competition 2021.
• All the team members and their supervisors must be registered in the conference.
• No participation forms will be considered after 31st May 2021.
• Incomplete participation form will not be accepted as all required information should be received before the submission deadline.
• Academic team is made up of (5) students which will be nominated from each university to be part of the competition.
• Participants must be in their clinical practice stage (4th or 5th academic year)
• Each team is supervised by one faculty member from the same university.
• The faculty member supervisor will nominate one team leader (captain) from the five students to be the representative of the team while answering the questions.
• A draw process will be done to select the competing teams in the preliminary round and will be announced to the participants of the competition.
• Participating teams’ members are expected to represent their University in a professional manner, any socially unacceptable behavior will result in automatic disqualification of their team from the competition.
• For any withdrawals, the participants should notify the *organiser in writing as soon as possible or minimum of 1 month prior to the event.

III] Requirements:

Each team is requested to provide the following to be able to participate to the virtual competition;

1. A dedicated stable Internet connection of at least 10 MB speed.
2.  The connection should not be shared with other activities.
3. All team members along with their supervisor should be in one room
4. Two devices – one to run the Zoom meeting and second one for the game-based  platform

IV] Competition Mechanics:

The competition will be composed of generally of 4 main rounds; Elimination A & B, Semi-Final and Final Rounds:

1. Elimination Rounds A:
   • Date & time will be announced soon
   • According to the final number of the participating universities, a random draw process will be done to select the competing teams
   • Example;
     

     Round 1:	Round 2:	Round 3:	Round 4:	Round 5:	Round 6:
     Team 1	Team 3	Team 5	Team 7	Team 9	Team 11
     Team 2	Team 4	Team 6	Team 8	Team 10	Team 12

      

     Round 7:	Round 8:	Round 9:	Round 10:	Round 11:	Round 12:
     Team 13	Team 15	Team 17	Team 19	Team 21	Team 23
     Team 14	Team 16	Team 18	Team 20	Team 22	Team 24

      

2. Elimination Rounds B:
   • Date & time will be announced soon
   • Winners of the previous rounds will compete against each other
   • Example;
     

     Round 1:	Round 2:	Round 3:	Round 4:	Round 5:	Round 6:
     Team 1	Team 3	Team 5	Team 7	Team 9	Team 11
     Team 2	Team 4	Team 6	Team 8	Team 10	Team 12

      

3. Semi-Final Rounds:
   • Date & time will be announced soon
   • Winners of the previous rounds will compete against each other
   • Example;
     

     Round 1:	Round 2:	Round 3:
     Team 1	Team 3	Team 5
     Team 2	Team 4	Team 6

      

4. Final Round:
   • The final round will be conducted on the 1st of July during the afternoon session
   • The winners of the semi-final round will face each other in 1 final round. The team with the highest score will be announced as the AEEDC Knowledge Champion 2021 (1st place winner) and the team with the lowest score will be the 3rd place winner

V] Competition Policy:

• All (5) representatives of each university will work together to answer the questions as a team including the captain student, who will deliver the answer.
• Questions shall be in multiple choice forms (MCQ).
• Questions divided into two groups:
  • • Group one will be correlated to AEEDC Conference Lectures submitted by the speakers who are the only reference.
    • Group two will be correlated to Clinical Dentistry submitted by each participating university and will be cross checked by independent academics.
• The conference lectures’ questions will be from the respective session previous to each round, i.e. The morning session of each day.
•  Excluded Conference Halls from the Competition questions will be announced soon.
• Each round will be composed of (5) questions randomly chosen from the Conference lectures’ questions & Universities questions and each team will receive the same questions during the same game (round).
• Each question will be equal to (1) point.
• In case of a tie, each team will have (1) tie breaker question, if both answered correctly, the process will be repeated until only one team gets the correct answer.
• Disqualification in case of receiving external assistance is to the organisers’ discretion.

VI] Awards & Certificates:

1. The highest scoring team will be announced as AEEDC KNOWLEDGE CHAMPION 2021.
2. Each member student of the champion team will receive 2,000 AED.
3. Each member student of the 2nd place winner will receive 1,000 AED.
4. Each member student of the 3rd place winner will receive 500 AED.
5. Free registration for AEEDC Dubai 2022 for each member student of the champion team.
6. Certificate of participation in the competition will be given to all teams’ members & their supervisors.

Click here for Students Competition Participation Form