For the first time in Greece, Hellenic Student Branch Congress was successfully organised and held on 14-16 December 2012 by the IEEE Student Branch of Patras (Host), Lamias, Thrace and Messolonghi with the support of the IEEE R8SAC and Greece Section.
The event attracted more than 60 participants from 10 Student Branches all over Greece and invited student branches from University of Cyprus and IST, Portugal.
From the Instituto Superior Técnico Student branch, 4 members were present, invited to perform several presentations in different topics. On the first day, all student branches presented their work and also their plans for 2013 and the IST Student branch, represented by Fábio Domingos, Giovanna Franchi e Ricardo Câncio Silva, was no exception, presenting all the amazing achievements of the last year and plans for the future. On the end of the presentation, Rui Costa introduced the IEEE-X Academic, as a spin-off of the IEEE-IST
Academic project started in the branch, that aims to create a new resource of education for all students made by IEEE volunteers worldwide.
By the second day, several presentations about IEEE, branch reporting and Region 8 were made, having as main purpose to motivate and alert students about the several resources that IEEE offers and also the importance of reporting all the organized activities.
In the afternoon, on the non-technical presentations slot, Rui Costa presented about how to motivate a team to be successful, giving several advices and guidelines to inspire all the present student branch members to create and achieve great things. Simay Akar, member of the Region 8 SAC, performed a training session with the topic of creating a joint project between student branches.
On the last day, several technical presentations were held in the morning followed by several non-technical presentations by the Portuguese Delegation. Fábio Domingos and Rui Costa presented about TISP, starting by a brief introduction to the PUW works activities, and a short explanation on EPICS-in-IEEE project. Then Fábio, followed with a presentation of TISP program and the adaptation that was made to the program in the IST student branch, now called TISP 2.0. Ricardo Câncio Silva followed with an inspiring presentation on how video can change and revolutionize student branches advertisement of their events and affect positively the branch reputation in their local and global community. Giovanna Franchi closed the streak with a very informative and uplifting presentation for Women in Engineering, promoting inclusion and equality throughout all IEEE members.
During all the event, students shared their experience and a valuable exchange of knowledge and important information was done. The main objective of this events is to gather students to talk about their projects and plans for the future but also to inspire them to be ambitious andrealize great achievements.
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