{"id":182,"date":"2020-03-17T10:07:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T06:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=182"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:47:00","slug":"students-professors-square-off-in-annual-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2020\/03\/17\/students-professors-square-off-in-annual-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Students, professors square off in annual event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Zeina Saleh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY &#8211; The American Society of Civil Engineers at the American University of Sharjah proceeded with their annual professors-and-students sports competition prior to the cancellation of all on-campus events, said Activities Coordinator Engy Mikhail on March 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mikhail said that the ASCE is a professional body founded in 1852 to represent worldwide members of the profession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students that were interested in competing were able to register by sending an email to the AUS subset of the organization, Mikhail added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event took place on the campus\u2019 sports field on Feb. 26 from 6-9 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In preparations for the event, the team contacted faculty members to learn about their preferred sports, Mikhail said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The activities included football, basketball, and chess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mikhail said that one professor was allocated to each team of students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI know other organizations worked really hard on planning events this semester and I hope they get the chance to make them come to life like we did,\u201d Mikhail added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Zeina Saleh UNIVERSITY CITY &#8211; The American Society of Civil Engineers at the American University of Sharjah proceeded with their annual professors-and-students sports competition prior to the cancellation of all on-campus events, said Activities Coordinator Engy Mikhail on March 1.\u00a0 Mikhail said that the ASCE is a professional body founded in 1852 to represent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[16],"class_list":{"0":"post-182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-cen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}