Scrap Art Contest winners.
DOHA: A renewable energy fuel station made from metal scrap, a discarded wheel, and plastic water bottles, bagged the first prize for the Oil and Gas division team at a Scrap Art Contest organised by the Galfar Arts and Cultural Club (GACC) for the staff of Galfar Al Misnad recently.
As one of the judges, Swapna Namboodiri, aptly put it when appreciating the efforts of the participants, “something is only waste, when it is wasted.”
This novel competition required contestants to transform scrap that was collected at Galfar Al Misnad’s STP Project Office in Mesaimeer into works of art; with the aim of inculcating environmental awareness, and to encourage the concept of upcycling in employees’ day to day life. The contest motivated staff members to think out of the box and demonstrated how even the most useless item can have some value.
With 17 teams putting in their best creative as well as engineering minds into each final product, selecting a winner was a tough task for the panel of judges that comprised of esteemed artists and members of the Qatar Fine Arts Society; Chaitra Somanath, Seetha Menon, and Swapna Namboodiri. The prizes were handed out by Galfar Al Misnad’s Executive Director Satish G Pillai and other members of the senior management team.
The teams that gave close competition to the winners were, the QHSE division, who came in second, with a futuristic model of Doha, complete with a FIFA 2022 Football Stadium and Metro Station; and the STP project team, who came in third with a collection of musical instruments to depict music’s ability to bring peace to life.
