Air University’s e-Olympiad from April 19

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi
(Pakistan News & Features Services)

Air University, in an effort to eradicating the confines of quarantined minds of youth, has announced to organize Pakistan's first-ever and the biggest e-Olympiad Air e-Nexus'20 from April 19 to 23. 

According to a press release issued on April 18, the Directorate of Student Affairs of Air University will be holding as many as 61 online events during the five-day event aimed at promoting e-Edutainment. 

The prominent events of the Olympiad comprise e-competitions among university students ranging from writing challenges to engineering designs, quizzes, donation drives, designing public service messages through videography, photography, animation and various other skill-based competitions. 

The Air e-Nexus'20 would also explore new horizons of opportunities under the concepts emerged from COVID-19 outbreak crisis, like work from home and remote learning through the effective use of online digital tools, including e-LMS. 

Air University has further announced to donate all proceeds from the event to the Government's COVID-19 relief fund. 

"We wish to return the spark that the youth of Pakistan think they have lost in their lives because of COVID-19. The objective of this whole extravaganza is to encourage students to promote the use of technology in education and revive the Nexus to e-Nexus, as an innovative initiative, for making some valuable contribution to the knowledge economy in digital age," an Air University official emphasized, adding that the primary motive behind transforming annual Air Nexus event to e-Nexus is promoting a digital platform to help achieve the concept of digital Pakistan. 

“Air University has and always will be leading from the front in support of new ideas and advancements in regard to such unprecedented ventures. Air e-Nexus'20 aims to prove itself one of the pivotal stepping stones through which the youth can bring a stark change in the minds and hearts of people, for the future of a dynamic and technologically advanced Pakistan,” the statement concluded.