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It happened again!\u00a0 Except this time it was twice as great and full of even more excitement than the last time.\u00a0 The second large MEPI training of students took place in the auditorium of the University of Hassan II in Mohammadia.\u00a0 This time while the staff (Malika Kassi, Alex Stein, and W. Azul La Luz) of HAF observed and supervised from the sidelines, the HAF Interns (HAFI) interns conducted the entire training by themselves. The primary object of this training was to have each individual group\/table of students (of which there were nine tables), go through a set of exercises leading to a joint decision on possible projects.<\/p>\n
This time there was no timidity on their part. Each explained what their part in the training was, and how the training was to proceed.\u00a0 As they were about to proceed with the training, from the back of the room, came a plea to speak.\u00a0 A young women, Hayat Barakate, a Masters student from El Jadida, stepped up from one of the women\u2019s tables, took the microphone and gave an impassioned plea to her fellow students to please take these matters here seriously, that what came out of these training would be important for the University, for Mohammadia, and eventually for all of Morocco!\u00a0 She went on to say that if HAF were ever interested that she as an elected official of El Jadida would be more than willing to entertain this type of training in El Jadida.\u00a0 There was a rousing round of applause from all the students present.\u00a0 And with that the training began.<\/p>\n
As with the first training, first a few students had trickled in at the appointed hour, noon, but the room was not completely full of students until well after 12:40 or so.\u00a0 I commented to Anis Alfalo, the president of the\u00a0Associacion des Jeunes Photographes Morocains<\/em>\u00a0(Moroccan Youth Photographers Association), who had agreed to photograph the event gratis, that I use to encounter the same phenomena in Mexico when I was studying there.\u00a0 Events often started sometime after the designated time.\u00a0 He concurred that in Morocco, it was common for people to arrive a bit after the designated time even for very official events.\u00a0 I was just ecstatic that most of the students that came this time where students from the past training sessions. There were a few new faces, but by and large, as we all greeted each other with handshakes and touching our hands to our hearts, some kissing each other\u2019s cheeks as they greeted.<\/p>\n Altogether, we had nine tables with 55 students in attendance.\u00a0 The nine tables were pre-designated to have six students each and as one of three groups \u2013 all females, all males, or mixed females and males.\u00a0 As with many events, there were more men than women, but we still had two tables of women, four of all males, three mixed.<\/p>\n The group\u2019s first exercise was dream-mapping, the second listing of assets and gaps, and the third community mapping.\u00a0 Next each group did a pair-wise project ranking.\u00a0 Once that was finished, a Pair-wise chart was created consisting of the top items from each group.\u00a0 The nine projects selected were: Transparency and liberty of expression, Campus, Medical Center, over-crowding, Change University System, Electronic Library, Transportation, Absence of good governance, Professor Competency.<\/p>\n Next the pair-wise exercise was conducted with all groups voting per item.\u00a0 The top three projects selected by the entire body of students were 1) Professor Competency, 2) Change of University System, and 3) University Campus.\u00a0 Even as the interactive process defines further these issues, they still require further definition in order to effectively plan and organize to address them.<\/p>\n Evaluations were then distributed.\u00a0 We provided some food items – sandwiches, yogurt, fruit, French fries, and beverages.\u00a0 All agreed that the next training would be at 11:30 on Wednesday, 2\/1\/2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0\u00a0 Azul La Luz, PhD., CCHt, Curriculum Specialist, High Atlas Foundation Mohammadia, Morocco It happened again!\u00a0 Except this time it was twice as great and full of even more excitement than the last time.\u00a0 The second large MEPI training of students took place in the auditorium of the University of Hassan II in Mohammadia.\u00a0 This<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mepi-full-logo-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}