NXplorers

Title: Oman Nxplorers – Awasir team

Duration: 4:48 minutes

Description: 

Nxplorers students reimagine a banana as a thriving ecosystem.

Awasir team worked hard to raise awareness of the importance of their project and its long-term impact. The initiative aimed to restore the town's heritage of banana trees plantations, which has enormous significance for the local community.

Oman Nxplorers – Awasir team

[Birds and nature sound]

A schoolgirl stand up in a middle of green farm

{ scene transition/break }

[a Vision view of Birkat Al Mouz Village in Oman showing different sight seen for the farms , forts and small village ]

[world map appears and with zoom in into Oman with location pin showed for Birkat Al Mouz ]

[ Birkat Al Mouz written in Red font appears in the map]

[Text / voice over displays]

{ Our journey today begins from Niyabat Birkat Almooz, an ancient town, located at the heart of Al Dakhiliyah Governorate and considered as a gate to Al Jabal Al Akhdar.}

{ scene transition/break }

[School girl in her living room wearing school uniform. She put her book inside the school bag, and She closes her bag]

Sound of the bag zipper while she closes the bag]

Then she walks outside the room.]  

[Text / voice over displays]

{Sometimes we ask questions that make us see the world from a different perspective 

Since we were kids, we thought nature is an unchanging entity}

 { scene transition/break }

[A View of the sky with the appearance of many Palm trees branches and sunshine. ]

[An elongated road in the middle of the palm farms ]

[Boy rides his bike down the street in the middle of the farms]

[Video clips of the Water Flajes in the green farms ]

[Text / voice over displays]

{ But everything around us changes by time

But we still can bring it back to what it used to be }

[school girl wearing her uniform and checking Banana tree in the farm . ]

[Text / voice over displays]

{ to make our present a sustainable future }

[3 school girls with school uniform chatting and walking in a green farm with a lot of baba trees. The girls touch banana trees by their hands while walking through ]

[ same 3 school girls with school uniform standing close to the Solar with side video shot]

[Text / voice over displays]

We learned all of this from utilizing the knowledge we gained from Shell Nxplorers}

Back ground Music [Shell music]

[a close classroom video shot where students play with Robotic car in the table]

Voice over for an old man talking about banana benefits

[two girls wearing black mask in school lab. One of them is using a microscope]

{ scene transition showing an old man in banana farm with Banana icon and a written Banana Benefits in White font in the top right of the screen }

[Conversation/ Banana Benefits]

{Farmer}

{Khamis Mansoor Khamis Al Dughaishi}

{There are many benefits of banana trees

Healthy, nutritional and environmental benefits

They are rich with vitamins and potassium

and other elements necessary for nurturing the body

Also, banana residue is used as fodder for animals}

 {Khamis Mansoor Khamis Al Dughaishi} will be the voiceover

 [ a video shot for 3 school girls with school uniform chatting and walking in a green farm with a lot of banana trees]

[ 3 school girls with school uniform chatting and walking through school’ lobby ]

[ Shot for school yard with some students walk through ]

{ scene transition showing Awasir team members (5 girls) standing in front of Solar panel system}

[ Awaser word displayed with Yellow Bold showing above the girls]

[Text / voice over displays]

{ We are Awaser team, and today we will tell you about our journey in Shell NXplorers program and how we were able to revive our ancient heritage that was endangered}

[one team member walk beside solar panels ]

[Another shot for the same girl in the middle of Banana Farm ]

Text of Birkat Al Mouz shows in both languages ( Arabic & English)

[Conversation/ Why they chose this project]

{Awasir Team member}

{Sara Salim Marhoon Al Mahrooqi}

{ Birkat Al Mouz was named due to the large numbers of banana trees which were grown in the area

But as time passed, The number of banana trees started to decrease gradually }

{Sara Salim Marhoon Al Mahrooqi } will be the voiceover

 [Class room with girl students wearing masks and then a voice for teacher asking them about new energy ]

[Young girl student writing in her note book ]

[Two girls with masks speaking to each other ]

[Text / voice over displays]

Hence, Awaser came up with the idea of planting banana trees To bring everything back to where it was, And Nxplorers program helped us see things from another perspective

[Two girls with masks in the school lab in front of the microscope]

[Nusaiba, team member in the class room wearing mask]

Text of the challenges with icon shows in the top of the screen in both languages (Arabic and English)

[Conversation/ The Challenges]

{Awasir Team member}

{Nusaiba Suroor Salam Al Saqri }

{ We chose this idea based on the decrease in the number of banana trees that used to spread all over Birkat Al Mouz in the past And started lately to get less in number

[Girl looking into her notebook and she writes down her own notes]

[Girl looking into the microscope]

[Girl checking the sample very carefully]

{Nusaiba Suroor Salam Al Saqri } voiceover:

Therefore, we created this project that will focus on planting banana trees and taking care of them.

It is worth mentioning that these trees mean a lot to the people of this village Something we were able to sense by their cooperation with the project Which also had met their support and admiration}

[Awasir team member discussing Nxplorers tools in the printed papers]

Al Yamamah Nasser Salim Al Tobi, Awaser team member setting in schools’ chair and talking about Nxplorers Tools

Text of Tools with icon shows in the top of the screen in both languages (Arabic and English)

[Conversation/ Tools ]

{Awasir Team member}

{Al Yamamah Nasser Salim Al Tobi }

{ During a workshop, we used many tools For example; Ripple Effect Mapping Which helped us figure the positive & negative impacts of the project Then we used the Feasibility funnel Through which we came up with the project concept Next, we used Persuasion Pyramid And lastly, we used Scamper tool.

[Awasir team member checking Banana tree carefully in the farm ]

[Same team member setting in the middle of the farm specking about the solutions and partnerships ]

Text of Solutions with icon shows in the top of the screen in both languages (Arabic and English)

[Conversation/ Solutions]

{Awasir Team member}

{ Asawer Salim Khalfan Al Zakwani}

{ Amongst the achievements under this initiative workshop for preparing food products with bananas as a main ingredients has been conducted }

{ Asawer Salim Khalfan Al Zakwani} Voiceover

[Close shot for Banana food products]

[Girl stick in Nxplorers tools in creative board

[Text / voice over displays]

{ And we organized a meeting with the student corporate “Eca Meca” for making eco-friendly plates out of banana stalks And that they are ready to make contracts with the farmers for buying the stalks instead of burning them }

[Asawer Salim Khalfan Al Zakwani – team member Voice over]

[ Drone shot for the solar panels in the school]

[Text / voice over displays]

{ Also, the school principal had met village Sheikhs to introduce team and their objectives

For which they provided their material and moral support

[Football team wearing their official uniform in a farm planting Banana trees ]

[ text of Football name shows in both languages]

[ Al Ittihad team ]

[An old man supporting the football team to dig a hole to plant banana tree]

[Manual digging pickaxe sounds heard clearly in the background]

[Manual digging pickaxe sounds heard clearly]

[Football team member planting small banana tree]

[ shot for the old man who wear traditional Omani dishdasha helping the football team members to plant banana trees and provide them with an organic fertilizer as a last stage for banana plantation ]

[Text / voice over displays]

And we have collaborated with several entities and nurseries such as Al Numan and Mohammed Al Qannobi’s nurseries Along with Ministry of Agriculture & Agricultural Research Center As well as creating social media accounts And publishing articles in newspapers such as Oman Daily Observer }

[Awasir team member in a classroom with different ingredients in front of her]

[ The girl is mashing banana and milk with electronic mixer and add ice ]

[Text / voice over displays]

{ We conducted workshops on making banana food products like banana jam We also formed corporations of students to manufacture other nutrient products out of bananas and help marketing them to society

{ scene transition showing Awasir team members (5 girls) in the classroom discussing Nxplorers tools}

{ scene transition for the same old man / farmer in his farm}

[Text / voice over displays]

{ Banana trees are connected with our childhood memories Especially in Birkat Al Mouz

We grew up shading under them In the summer time And most farms have these trees

As we inherited growing banana trees from our fathers We will continue passing on this legacy to our children and continue preserving it.

[Two young boys from Football team in the farm holding banana trees in their hand and raising their thumb with nice smile ]

[ Girl in her home in the living room smiling to the camera ]

[ Girl in front of solar panels standing up and smiling to the camera]

[ two girls in front of the solar panels smiling ]

Shell Logo

Shell music

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