Ain Shams University will host the 30th Apical Scout session of the Egyptian Universities in the period from 20 to 29 August, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University. This is under the auspices of Prof. Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Prof. Dr. Mahmoud El-Metini President of the University. It will be under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Abdel Fattah Saud, Vice President for Education and Student Affairs, Prof. Dr. Ahmed Galal, Dean, Faculty of Agriculture. The session will be in the presence of Advisors of the Vice President of the University (Prof. Taya Abdel Latif, Prof. Tamer Rady), Mr. Samir Abdel Nasser, Secretary General of the University. Ain Shams University prepared to receive delegations from 14 Egyptian universities, which will be arriving on Tuesday and Wednesday, the opening ceremony of the 30^th Scout will be held on Thursday, August 22 at 4 pm at the Faculty of Agriculture.

More than 250 scouts from Cairo, Beni Suef, Sohag, Aswan, Banha, Menoufia, Suez, Suez Canal University, Damietta, Tanta, Mansoura, Al-Azhar, Port Said and Ain Shams will compete for nine days.

Participating university teams compete in various fields of sports, art, culture and scouting, in addition to assessing standards of behavior, appearance and aspiration for leadership and others.

The results of the competitions will be announced at the closing ceremony of the session scheduled for 4:00 pm on Thursday 29 August.

Prof. Dr. Abdel Fattah Saud, Vice President of Ain Shams University for Education and Students Affairs held an expanded meeting this morning to find out all the preparations to host the course of establishing, feeding, securing and providing all services necessary for the successful preparation of the scouting session.

Prof. Dr. Taya Abdel Latif, Advisor to the Minister of Higher Education for Student Activities, Prof. Dr. Tamer Radi, Advisor to the Vice President for Education and Student Affairs, Prof. Dr. Hamdi Mousa, session coordinator, Mr. Mohammed Al-Khatib Assistant Secretary for Education and Student Affairs and Mr. Tarik Ahmed, Director General of the University Youth Welfare Department, Mr. Ibrahim Saeed, Acting Director General of Cities Sector, Mrs. Sama Khater Director of the Department of scouts attended the meeting.