Congratulations to Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada

The 14-year-old girls who took the prize for a prototype walking cane for the blind that "beeps" to alert the user of drop-offs and obstacles. The girls were the first Palestinians to participate in Intel's international youth science fair.

"Unlike other electronic canes that send an infrared signal forward, the girls' invention has a 'seeing' sensor below that beeps when the surface changes, such as near stairs, holes or water, up to 30 inches away," the UN report said.

Below are only a handful of messages MAP have received and will be forwarding to the girls:

-Many congratulations on winning this award. You are a credit to your family and your people. Well done.

Enid and Roger Gordon.

Gateshead, North East England.

Congratulations to Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada on your great success in receiving an award in applied electronics in competition with the rest of the world!

Wonderful!

From a friend in Edinburgh, Scotland

Salwa Jones

Dear Winners of the "Special Award in Applied Electronics"

How wonderful for you to win this award in an international field, especially when the privileges and liberties of other countries are not afforded to those living in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip, this makes your achievement even more outstanding. We hope this award brings openings for your future. It must make you and your families very proud.

We wish you continuing success and as always support the Palestinians in their right to live as equal and free citizens.

With very best wishes

Lesley MacKinnon and Paul Wyeth

Winchester

England

Well done girls that's fantastic, even more so considering your situation, which we know a little bit about through MAP and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign

John and Mary Tomkinson

Dear Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alaradacongratulations on your award in 'applied electronics'!This is a technological topic of great interest and importance in themodern world.My best wishes to you and your interest in science and technology.Vini Pereira(Happisburgh, Norfolk, United Kingdom)

Many congratulations on an amazing and impressive achievement. Your people must be so proud of you. I look forward to hearing of your future achievements and accomplishments.

Dear Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada

I write to congratulate you on winning a special award in applied electronics" at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair in San Jose, California.

I was in Nablus at the end of last year and have some idea of how difficult life is under military occupation. Your achievement is a triumph for you, your community and your country.

May you be blessed.

In friendship

Kate Cargin

Your skilled commitment for using applied science for inclusion is inspiring. Wising you every success in your future endeavours and hope that you will continue to contribute so richly to Palestinian, as well as global society.

In great pride of your achievement,

Sincerely,

Kathy Al Ju'beh

Director of Progammes oPt, MAP

News of your success has reached all over the world

including here in YORK , UK where we are delighted

to hear of your great achievement.

Well done, and keep up your good work

with our good wishes

Sue Cooke & Paul Rusby

Dearest Accomplished Ladies,

We, of all nationalities are not only proud but are immensely impressed by your achievements. You have overcome adversity to set an example for all children and adults not only in Palestine but all around the world. You are an inspiration. Congratulations and this is only the begining.

Warmest regards,

Miss Negin Erfani (Iranian)

London England

Congratulations!

Dr A Butt

This is amazing news. Well done, and what a fantastic idea!

Paul

Hi girls.

I salute you and cheer your endeavours in the face of so much hostility and so many restrictions placed by Israel upon the normality of your lives in the Palestinian Occupied Territories. I hope this year is the year when the whole sorry escapade is resolved and your future freedom is assured.

Well done to all of you, and to your families and neighbours, I send a huge collective hug with the only arms worth having!

Ged

To Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada in Nablus.

Many congratulations on winning your prize in Applied Electronics! Such an important subject for the future.

From Christopher Bastian in England.

Well done girls! You did brilliantly.

all the best for the future

Pauline, Harrow, UK

Dear Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada

I congratulate you for competing with 1500 finalists, and winning a "special award in applied electronics" at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair in San Jose, the world's premier youth science competition.

You are a true inspiration. Please, accept my best wishes for you and your dear ones.

Peace and love

Jelica Roland

Croatia

Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada

Well done, the three of you for doing so well. I am a scientist too, and we need more women scientists in the world. You have coped with all sorts of difficulties and my husband and I are full of admirationj. I hope you can go on studying and achieving. Very best wishes to all three of you.

Audrey Long

Blewbury, Oxfordshire, England.

Many congratulations to Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada for their award in applied electronics. We are delighted for them, and for the pride this will give to all the Palestinian people.Francis & Jane BuxtonGloucestershire

Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar, and Noor Alarada.

Congratulations on your special award in applied electronics! How wonderful! Your families and your teachers must be very proud of you.

You live in a very special part of the world and have many difficulties to overcome and it is so good to hear that you are able to put your interests and your talents to such positive use. Well done. Keep going!

With very best wishes

Mary Wightman, UK

(retired teacher)

please send my sincere congratulations and best wishes for the future to the girls from the UNRWA school in Askar Camp, Nablus, for winning an international science award in applied electronics.

Freedom and justice for Palestine!

Cally Reeves

Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada

I've just heard the fantastic news about your "special award in applied electronics" at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair. It's so good to hear a positive story from the West Bank and I wanted to say CONGRATULATIONS!

Best wishes

Liz Murray (Lincoln, England)

Dear Aseel, Aseel and Noor I want to congratulate each of you for your fantastic achievement in the science competition. It is even more amazing that you have achieved this in such challenging circumstances. Well-done to you all. With my love and best wishes CatherineMAP supporter from Inverness, Scotland - currently working as a doctor in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the north east of England.

Well done indeed to the three of you. I was really bad at science at school- my experiments would always go wrong and I cannot do maths at all. One of my physics teachers wanted to throw me off his course, but said he liked having me in the class, as I showed people how NOT to do science. So I have great respect for anyone who can do it! Congratulations on this prize and keep up the good work.deryn collins, Cordoba, Spain

Well done girls. This is a great achievement for you, Palestine, your teachers and of course for girls!

I hope that you will have the chance to do great things for Nablus and Palestine in future - the world needs more strong women.

Janet Hislop

paediatrician in UK

Hi,Congratulations to the three of you on your magnificent achievement.The education of women is of very great importance in today's world. I hope many more will follow your example, and I hope they will be allowed to.All the very best,Francis Sheehy Skeffington

Well done Aseel, Aseel and Noor for your prize for science. From Rachel Lever in Hastings, UK and all at One Democracy

I just wanted to add my congratulations to the girls from Nablus who did so well in applied electronics.

Having been to Nablus I understand how significant this award is and how much it could contribute to the future of the West Bank & Palestine.

all the best from London!

Fiona Dunlop

Kia ora from Aotearoa/New Zealand!

We are sending best wishes and CONGRATULATIONS to Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada for their fantastic award and let them know that there are many people around the world who support the Palestinians.

Good luck for the future.

Cathy O'Callaghan and Mike Sansom and their children Scarlett, Ciara and Zak

Congratulations to the two Aseels and Noor for the achievement in winning the special electronics award in California. Well done girls you are a credit to the Palestinian nation.

RegardsRick Hoar

I am sitting at my computer in West Cork, Southern Ireland sending more than just congratulations to you three young ladies who have achieved so much already in your short life. I can imagine how hard you have worked to receive this award.

I wish you well in continuing your studies which will enrich your future and the future of your country and the planet. We are all very proud of your accomplishments. God Bless You

Patsy Puttnam

Congratulations to Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada on winning the special award in applied electronics at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair in San Jose, California. Hearing the news has made me so happy... you are an inspiration to us all.

Jamie Johnson, Hebden Bridge, England.

To Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada,Many congratulations on your wonderful acheivement ! I have visited Israel and the West Bank, therefore I have some idea of the ongoing pressures that would have been the background to your hard work and commitment. Your acheivement is inspirational.Love and best wishes from Sharon de-Wit, England.

Dear children,

Congratulations on your wonderful and successful achievement! Mashallah, may Allah grant yourselves and all Muslims success in both worlds.

Keep up the hard and good work.

Wassalam,

Your brother in Islam, Ahmed

Hello, I'm sending a message of congratulations and best wishes to the three scientists Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshoor and Noor Adoronda who won a science award in San Jose Ca. Well Done. from Zelda McCollum in London.

I try to imagine how difficult it must have been for you all to get your qualifications. You have had to work very hard to achieve this. Even the opportunity to study we take so much for granted here in Scotland was something very rare and special for girls like you.Now you can look forward with hope and will have ambitions in life. If only that was the case for all Palestinians.May your careers be long and fruitful. Pauline Reed, Scotland

Dear Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada,

Well done! It is so good to hear of your success, and that you went all the way to San Jose. Your parents must be very proud of you.

I send you and your families warm wishes.

Lin Patterson

Bath, England

Dear Palestinian sisters

We are very proud of you. You have once more proved that the Palestinian people is alive in spite of the racist occupiers.

Kamal Aranki

Well done!! I lived in Palestine for three years - near Al Khalil - and I know the horrible difficulties you face. I also come from Dundee in Scotland, which is twinned with Nablus, so have visited your city. As a teacher I know the work that goes into entering for one of these competitions and I think you are all wonderful to have entered and to have done so well. Viva Palestine!Janet Benvie, Scotland

Congratulations to Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada for your work that earned this special award. Having worked in electronics 50 years ago (I did an evening course to learn about these wonderful new transistors - germanium in those days), & having just read the summary of what you did in devising an important improvement to the sensor cane design, I am impressed & delighted for you.

Well done indeed!

David Barnard

Assalamo-alaikum,

I was incredibly pleased to read you girls have won such a prestigious award. With all the difficulties that you are surrounded by, gives this award even greater prestige.

Inshallah, I wish you all every success in the future

regards

Syed Shabbir

Hello to MAP and thanks for all of your wonderful work.

I'd like you to pass on my congratulations to the girls on their marvellous achievement. The staff at the UNRWA school at Askar Camp should also be congratulated.

Please tell the girls that they are keeping alive a Palestinian tradition of scholastic achievement and a thirst for learning. Edward Said would have been extremely proud of them. I'm proud of them, and I'm thinking about them as I sit at my keyboard in Tillicoultry, Scotland.

Best Wishes

Andy Stuart

Dear Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada,

Congratulations on your wonderful achievement in winning the Special Award in Applied Electronics at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair in San Jose, California. Your idea will be of great benefit to people and shows your scientific intelligence and practical thinking. I am sure you will all go on to brilliant careers as scientists and engineers -- or whatever else it is that you want to use your intelligence and passion for. I hope that you and your school friends will be given all the opportunities that you should have, and that all Palestinians will one day be accorded their human rights as should be accorded to all people on this planet.

Congratulations and best wishes,

Graham MacPhee Ph.D.,

Philadelphia, PA,

USA

Well done!

Dear Aseel Abu, Aseel Alshaar and Noor,

Congratulations on winning the special award, I rejoice in your achievement and I am sure you are very proud of it. All the more deserved considering the hardship you are experiencing. I am certain that this is only the beginning of greater things to come. I wish a lot of success. All the best and thinking of you. Vania

Well done you three! Much love and good wishes from Ireland. xxxx

Anne Spragg

To Aseel, Aseel and Noor

Wow! 1,500 competitors from all over the world and you are right up there with them. And I bet none of the rest have to put up with living under the shadow of Israeli aggression.

All of us who support the cause of Palestinian freedom are very very proud of you.

with my very best wishes

Roshan

Ms. Roshan Pedder from the United Kingdom

Well done, Aseel, Noor and Aseel on gaining such a prestigious award! You will be an inspiration to girls and young women everywhere when they learn about your considerable achievement. I hope you had fun working on your science project and taking part in the competition.

Warm wishes

Joan Stewart

Oxford

UK

Congratulations, girls! I am so, so happy and SO proud of you! Remember: there is nothing you can't do as long as your heart is in it. Keep your hearts strong and kind. I wish you all the very best for your future. Make every moment count.Lots of love from Pakistan!

Congratulations for attaining these awards and well done.Gulam Lorgat

My congratulations to Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada for their super achievement in winning a special award in applied electronics.

I hope you three will all continue with your interest in Science and do great things for Palestinians, and for the world. i

With best wishes,

Nazim Merchant

Ayr

Scotland

Hi Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar, and Noor!I just wanted to congratulate you three girls on such an amazing accomplishment. When I read the news, I was very proud and happy. May Allah bless you.Prayers and best wishes from Canada,Fatima Altaf

You go, girls! All women across the world are proud of you and your

amazing achievement. We will be thinking of you and pulling for

you. You're the best.

Marilyn Williams

New York

As-salaamu alaikum,

Well done girls for your award in the sciencs competition!

It is an even greater achievement for you being muslim girls coming from Nablus.

I hope you achieve further success through your studies!

Was-salaam Shaheda Pahad

(Johannesburg ,South Africa)

Dear Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada, Congratulations on winning the competition, what an achievement.You are a great inspiration to young people everywhere especiallyin Palestine.I will mention you to my students in London when they lose faith.Wishing you more success in the future. Ms Bilber Kaur (MA)

Dear Aseel, Noor and Aseel,

Congratulations on your fine achievements. I hope that they will serve as examples to other people of Palestine, young and old, and that all of Palestine will soon be free.

Best wishes for your future work,

Regards,

John Moon,

Lincolnshire, U.K.

Well done girls!

Congratulations from Cambridge, UK

Lucila Makin (Dr)

Dear Asee Abu Aliel,Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada,

Congratulations on winning your award in applied electronics . I used to teach Science in the UK and it is very important that young women receive recognition. For too long this has been denied to them.

Good luck for the future

With all good wishes

Christine Rowntree

Please pass on my congratulations to Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada for their huge achievement in winning the special award in Applied Electronics at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair. Their achievement is all the more impressive considering the difficulties they must have faced trying to build a prototype within the restrictions imposed upon their homeland by the Israeli government. I'm sure many sight-impaired people will benefit from their amazing new invention, and that the girls will go on to even greater achievements. They obviously have glittering careers ahead of them.

Yours Sincerely

Sonali Bhattacharyya

Dearest Aseel, Noor, and Aseel,We have never met, but when I read that you won an award after competing with 1500 finalists from around the world, I wanted to send you a message of respect, congratulation, and love. Well done- many people are proud of you. Let's all hope that one day, everyone will understand and no longer need to fight each other. Stephanie

Please pass this message to the three budding scientists.

"Many congratulations on your award. Studying under the conditions that you endure must be very difficult, so you should be even more proud of yourselves.

Please remember, as you get older, that science is neither for war nor for peace - its uses depend on what the scientists allow to be released about what they have discovered, and what the politicians do with the discoveries. So please try to ensure that whatever you do in future is for the sake of peace, and that the politicians do not use your work for the sake of war.

John Davis

Wales"

Dear Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada,

I wish to congratulate you on your fantastic achievement in winning this special award in applied electronics at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair in San Jose, California.

Very well done to all three! Wishing you all the best for the future, good health and hapiness,

from Elizabeth Morley near Aberystwyth, West Wales, UK.

Hello Aseel, Aseel and Noor

Congratulations to you three on your great achievement. I am very delighted for you!!! I wish you all the best in the future.

Well done

Carmel Meacle (Ireland)

Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada:

Congratulations on your invention & its recognition internationally. My co-workers at the Society for the Blind look forward to seeing the product become available.

Best wishes,

Christine McCabe

Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada

Congratulations on winning an award at the world's premier youth science competition you and you families should be very proud.

Michael Pye

Dear Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada

I learned of your success at the Science & Engineer Fair in San Jose, USA and wanted to write to say what a terrific achievement the award was for, as young women and as Palastinians.

You are destined for great things and are obviously very very clever girls. I wish you well in your academic careers and I am sure everyone at the UNRWA School at Askar Camp in Nablus are very proud of your tremedous success.

With sincere best wishes

Joanna Oldham

Ipswich, UK

Well done you fabulous girls,

You are an inspiration to girls around the world living in all areas, that it's okay to be female and its okay to do science. You must and should be so proud of yourselves, it cannot have been easy at times.

My daughter, aged 12years and I send our very best wishes and congratulations.Nikki and Sophia.

Congratulations girls. You have my admiration for your work, and particularly under the difficulties and injustices that surround your lives. We don't forget about you. Palestine will be free one day.Love,Dee Coombes

Hello and congratulations to you all ----- Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada Well done on your special award in applied science. Irish eyes are smiling on you

I hope your recent work will progress to more success and your invention will go into production earning you financial reward.

Well done...........Health and happiness to you all

Warm Wishes Niall

I think palestinian people are proud of you, yes, we are all so, congratulations , i wish more palestinian students will win such prizes, Rashid Shahin- Bethlehem- West Bank

Dear Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada,

I was so pleased to hear of your winning a special award in applied electronics at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair in San Jose, California.

As a (retired) academic chemist who used a lot of electronics in my research, I am cheered by the fact that you have been able to achieve excellence in this field.

Congratulations to you all. I hope you go on further great achievements, and that you will be able to contribute a lot to a free and independent Palestine.

Best wishes

John Carpenter.

To Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada ,

Many congratulations on your award winning competition, you are a source of pride and hope for all our youth in Palestine and abroad.

All our warmest wishes go to you all three for perseverance and further development.

You are an example of Palestinian resiliency and courage to live.

Many congratulations.

Heba Zaphiriou-Zarifi

Analytical Psychotherapist (London)

Congratulations on a great achievement!

With very best wishes,

Susan Gilchrist.

I would like to congratulate Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada from the UNRWA School at Askar Camp in Nablus on having been awarded the world's premier youth science competition at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair in San Jose, California.

It is very important that the voices of girls and women are heard today and that people throughout the world realise that we can also do science. Felicitaciones!

Dr Consuelo Rivera Fuentes

Hi there,Congratulation for the great price. I admire your courage!!!I wish you all the best for future investigations, x Zaira

Hello to Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada, from England.

I am writing to congratulate you on your award in applied electronics at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair in San Jose. This is fantastic - I was very pleased to hear that you have made history to become the first Palestinians to win this award!

I wish you every success in the future - I really hope you continue with your science studies: the world needs many more women scientists!

With all best wishes,

Lynda Birke

Visiting Professor, Biological Sciences, University of Chester

Hi girls, we are all so proud of you here in the UK< and it makes our work as Palestine activists so worth while to know that your country has a shining future, congratulations, keep up the excellent work, one day you will lead your country in a new world with a big bighug for you all and love

Pam Hardyment

Congratulations on you achievement

Best wishes from friends in Inverness Scotland

Ann P MacDonald

Dear Aseel, Aseel and Noor,Well done for winning the prize in the youth science competition. Its a remarkable acheivement and all the more extraordinary for it being done in Palestine. Continue to do such wonderful things.Ibrahim, London

Dear Ms. Aseel Abu Aleil, Ms. Aseel Alshaar and Ms. Noor Alarada:

I want to take this opportunity to congratulate you on your award at the science youth competition. Upon hearing the wonderful news, I immediately read the article to my 14-year old daughter. It was important for me that she not only have positive role models to admire, but to instill in her the importance of resilience and determination - as you girls have demonstrated. You are truly an inspiration to young girls worldwide because you have proven that hurdles can be successfully overcome with the sincere intentions and noble goals. May you continue on your path of discovery and experimentation - and inshAllah you continue to make Palestinians everywhere proud.

The best of luck on your endeavors. God bless you.

Fellow Palestinians in

Edmond, Oklahoma

Dear Aseel, Aseel and Noor,

I wish to send you my congratulations on winning the UNRWA Science Competition!!

I think your invention is just great in that it helps blind people to be able to do more on their own. It is very thoughtful of all three of you that you are helping to improve the world for others. All of you are fantastic!!

I know all three of you will do well in life and I know you will realize your dreams. If your dreams take you to California, it would be an honor for me to meet you. I am sure your families are all very proud of you and I think all three of you are smart and wonderful girls.

As we say here in America.. "You are ROCK STARS!!"

Congratulations!!

Dave

Dave Barnes

San Francisco, California USA

Dear Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada,

I've just heard the wonderful news about you earning a special science award.

You are inspirational!!!

I hope you have every opportunity available to you to learn and contribute even more to our world.

Sending best wishes to you and yours,

Sheryl

Hi I would like to say congratulations to Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada for winning the prize - it sounds like a very clever invention! You and the people around you must have gone through so much and seen so many horrible things - hardship and suffering that nobody should go through and I have a tremendous amount of respect for you all. I wish there was more that I could do and I hope that one day you will all have the freedoms that many take for granted. Ollie ClokieGuildford, England.