The Egyptian student, Hamad Hussein Zanati, won first place in the Best E-Learning Idea competition in Japan, after a competition with about 2,500 preparatory and high school students from different Japanese schools.
The idea of the 15-year-old Hamad project surpassed more than 1122 projects that were submitted within the activities of the "Enageed Summit 2020" educational competition in Japan.
Hamad surpassed 2,500 students in the Japanese competition and won the best electronic educational idea award (Source: Otimai Japanese School)
The competition, which was held last December, aims to participate with students in providing solutions to education problems and creating electronic educational tools that keep pace with the challenges of the spread of the Corona epidemic.
Otimai Japanese School celebrated the award of its student Hamad to the award, and stated on its website that the Egyptian student project is related to developing very small projectors and applications to solve the problem of "heavy luggage" and the difficulty of transporting it.
The school indicated that the idea of the project was widely praised for its accurate identification of the problem, potential difficulties, and the development of appropriate solutions to overcome them.
During an intervention with the Egyptian channel "DMC" (dmc), Hamad refused to disclose the details of his idea at the present time, indicating that it is currently being registered to obtain a patent, and only indicated that the idea is valid for application in Egypt.
Japanese suede
Despite his Japanese features and all the years of his life he lived in Japan, Hamad is always proud of being a Saidi, belonging to the Minya Governorate, the birthplace of his father, the educational expert, Hussein Zanati, a visiting researcher at Chukyo University, Japan, and the executive director of the Egyptian-Japanese Friendship Association.
For years, Hamad has participated in many educational initiatives and cooperative activities with Egyptian students from Upper Egypt, especially through the "Friends of Humanity and Peace" initiative, launched by his father to train children in Minya Governorate.
Hamad is also currently participating in cooperation with Egyptian children through an educational grant for the Japanese "Tan Kyu" program for interesting education and exploration.
Hamad indicated, in a previous meeting during his visit to Egypt in 2018 to attend the "Egypt Can Teach" conference, that he will transfer some of the manual skills that he learned in Japan to school children in Upper Egypt, through educational workshops aimed at creating technical cadres from these students who in turn transfer what they have learned to Their classmates in other schools.
"Hamad" is the son of Dr. Hussein Zanati, an expert and researcher in education in Japan. I did not come to Egypt for a visit with his father, because he is on a Japanese official mission. Let's know why # Egypt_ you can pic.twitter.com/nB3SzTxu6g
- dmctv (@dmctv) December 21, 2018
Hamad's concern and interest in the people of his village in Upper Egypt appeared during the past year with the appearance of the first infection with the Coronavirus, where he presented a simple educational video explaining how to work the muzzle at home.
"Two happiness"
Hamad previously won the Excellence Award at the International Asian Film Festival for Educational Children in 2015 for his participation in the short film "Two Happiness", which he prepared and directed by himself, while he was still in the fourth grade of primary school.
The film, which lasts no more than 3 minutes, deals with a realistic story of the child Hamad and his parrot girlfriend Hamdia during a picnic, through which he tries to present a useful lesson that he learned from this trip.
At the age of six, Hamad participated in the performance of the operetta "They Ya Masry", which was written by his father and began implementing it in 2011, and it took several years to complete, and his words call on Egyptians to exert more effort and energy for building and renaissance.
Hamad appeared in the operetta holding the Egyptian flag at 18 degrees below zero.
And the work - which Hamad's father described as a humanitarian educational message - participated in the work - 320 Japanese and 60 foreign communities residing on the island of Hokkaido (northern Japan), including musicians, teachers, workers, scouts and students.
Like his father
Hamad follows in the footsteps of his father, an educational expert, Hussain Zanati, the owner of distinguished educational initiatives in Japan, where he has lived and worked for more than 20 years.
Zanati directs the Japanese Interesting Education and Exploration Project in the Middle East, which is a developmental educational project that aims to exchange skills and intellectual activities between children of Japan, Egypt and the world.
The Egyptian expert is training Japanese teachers on his innovative teaching methods, which he called "Zenati Style".
In December 2020, Zanati was awarded the Best Foreigner in Social and International Work in Japan from the National Association for Good Deeds under the auspices of the ruling family.
The Japanese Foundation for Education, Science and Exploration also chose him as the personality of the year 2020, due to his efforts since he joined the foundation.