DOHA: Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar (VCUQatar) educated Qatari students about the various opportunities in design and how design in Qatar today is facilitating the innovation process be it in business, fashion, architecture, advertising and other media during the Qatar Career Fair 2010.
VCUQatar handed out information on the university's interdisciplinary MFA in design studies which is targeted at everybody with a passion for revolutionary design be they engineers, doctors or artists as long as they bring with them a meaningful vision about design in the world and see themselves expanding and applying that vision.
VCUQatar also promoted the IHPE (International Heritage Photographic Experience) Qatar 2010 contest that is open to all students under the ages of 21 and is aimed at promoting Qatar's rich heritage through creative photographs taken by the youth in the country so that they discover Qatar's monumental heritage and learn to value it and love it.
Qatar received 147 creative shots with two being selected by the jury for submission in the 2009 IHPE catalogue.
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