 Hello, I'm Dr. Sandra Knudson. I teach environmental sciences at the American University of Sharjah. I'm here to welcome you to Thursday's Environmental Day. It is an annual activity that we do to promote environment and sustainability, especially in the UAE, but globally as well. We want to promote the idea of sciences and how science careers can lead to a sustainable world, so we look at how we can develop solutions to a lot of environmental problems. This year is going to be amazing. We have more enthusiasm from the high schools than we've had in previous years. We have over 30 high schools coming with hundreds and hundreds of students and 100 staff. So we have poster teams that are going to look at the sustainability within their schools and then talk about that. The students then get to have an hour where they discuss with each other those ideas. And then next year we're going to ask them to say what they did having learned more here. They can then take it to their schools at home and then they can start doing some of the activities that other high schools had done. We can then bring them together again and say, what have you improved? How have you worked towards being more sustainable? And then we have a science quiz, basics of environmental science, biology, chemistry. We have 70 teams that we're going to be narrowing down to the best five on stage. You're going to be taking basically a 100 level university exam, and the best five teams will get up on stage and then they'll have a quiz and competition. So we're going to have tons of fun all day long. Thank you, and I can't wait. Hello everybody. My name is Dr. Fath and Samara. I am a faculty at the American University of Georgia. I am here to welcome you to the Environmental Day 2017. I am so happy that you guys will be joining us for that day. We will have a lot of activities and the most important thing is that we're going to be promoting sustainability, we're going to be promoting science, and that's why I'm here with some of our students and I want you to hear from them what do we do here at AUS and see if they like. I'm an environmental science student and I'm majoring in environmental chemistry more specifically. I think it's a really great program. It really allows us to understand the environment and all of our impacts towards it and it also allows us to mitigate all of our effects. And I think it's a great program for us to be introduced as professionals into the field. My name is Esma. I'm also majoring in environmental science with specialization in environmental chemistry. My favorite thing about the course is that we have a lot of opportunities to do a lot of practical work. So we have a lot of lab things involved with most of our classes and that's really helpful because we also go out into the field and look at examples that are relevant to the United Arab Emirates as well. So that's my favorite part about the course. My name is Maysa Khadi. I'm also majoring in environmental science with chemistry concentration. What I like the most about the major is that it's different. It's more fun and we're exposed to a lot of fields, a lot of different courses, a lot of aspects of the environment which will hopefully provide us with opportunities in the right future. So if you want to know a little bit more about what they have said and what we do at AUS, please join us on Thursday, April 20 for Environmental Day and you can ask all of us because we're going to be there to help you and guide you towards any questions that you have. So hopefully we'll see you on Thursday and maybe we'll see you in the future as a student at AUS. And I think this event is very important for high school students to be a part of or participate in because the physical sciences or the life sciences such as chemistry, biology or physics gives the students to be able to think much and improve their thinking abilities and more than anything it gives them the opportunity to widen their options when it comes to choosing their careers or deciding their career goals. Other than just getting stuck or limited to the traditional career options. My name is Dr. Mohammad Amul Aish. I'm an environmental science professor at the American University of Sharjah. We would like to invite you to the Environmental Day that's going to occur on April 20. This is a fun day. We're going to have lots of activities, quizzes, competitions. We're going to have displays. We're going to have companies that are going to come and talk to us about the environment and sustainability. So it's going to be a really enjoyable day and we wish that you could come and look at our department, look at the labs that we have, what type of experiments we're doing and what type of activities. So it will encourage you later on to join the environmental science program as well as the chemistry and biology program.